do you know these guys?

0to60in6min · Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 8:25 am Post subject: do you know these guys?

on my way back from SyncroFest I stopped on the side of the south bound I-5 to help these guys - I left them there after patching with rescue tape a small coolant hose and gave them some water...

never hear from them again.. do they have other problems? do they made it home?

this is the only pic I have.. they were at SyncroFest too...do you know who are they?

thanks

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danfromsyr · Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 8:47 am Post subject:

awning on both sides of the van, shouldn't be toohard to recall if someone knows them.. or the van
I remember vans better than names..
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shadetreetim · Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 3:36 pm Post subject:

Guy on the right looks like Brian from San Diego. They must have been behind me, i never saw them when I came through.
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0to60in6min · Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 3:40 pm Post subject:

I saw you passing me at high speed honking the horn... and then later on I saw them...

he has a Vanistan engine (a 3rd one..?)

shadetreetim · Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 3:49 pm Post subject:

Hmm. I remember blowing by you... but not them. Interesting. Yeah Brian has a Vanistan engine in his ride. The guy in the blue shirt helped me at Syncrofest. He's from San Diego as well, but I had never met him before. Nice guy but his name escapes me right now.
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0to60in6min · Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 4:07 pm Post subject:

we talked to the blue T-shirt guy at our camp site... his name is Aria... like the music... - he's not the owner/driver of the van... the white T-shirt guy is...

0to60in6min · Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 4:19 pm Post subject:

btw... you remember me because I was doing 65 with my plain jane 2.1 WBX and you're doing 95 with your 1.8T...

you missed the other guys because they were doing 0 mph

I told my co-pilot (wife) "hmm...this guy has the engine I want.." - she told me we don't have the $$ for it..

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shadetreetim · Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 6:10 pm Post subject:

Aria, that's right. I hope he comes around the San Diego meet sometime.

I was running behind Joey in his Land Rover when we passed you. I asked him to pace me because he has cruise control and I didn't want to drive too fast with my jb weld patch on the oil pan. Laughing

But we wound up pulling over several times as a piece of window trim on his Land Rover kept popping loose. We finally took it completely off. I accused Joey of trying to give Vanagons a bad rep. I imagine everyone who saw us on the side of the road imagined that nice Land Rover pulled over to help the broken down old Vanagon. Wink

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16CVs · Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2015 12:17 am Post subject:

Well it for sure was not me. I only have an awning on one side and I live within an hour of SF.
Don't get Brian going about his 10c engine.

Hey Joey take your Land Rover back to the guys who put a front glassninit and make them change the pillar clips. There are a total of 10 of them and they are $8.50 each , they are a stupid little clip like a door panel clip which should be about .45 each Max.
Tim ,just be glad it wasn't you with oil on the ground as you drove. Have you changed that pan yet or are you still tempting fate.

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BlueGrasser · Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2015 9:00 am Post subject:

Good on ya' for stopping!
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EwokPoacher · Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2015 9:14 am Post subject:

i think that is brian from san diego. we can check if he makes it to the san diego meet tomorrow.

0to60in6min · Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2015 9:33 am Post subject:

no... you guys were doing more than that....

at least on my perspective...

and yes please ask him if the fix I made on the small elbow coolant hose was good or not..

thanks

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shadetreetim · Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2015 9:43 am Post subject:

SloFloSyncro · Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2015 9:44 am Post subject:

0to60in6min · Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2015 3:46 pm Post subject:

shadetreetim · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 12:27 pm Post subject:

Update: I saw Brian this past Saturday. He said one of the oil cooler coolant lines had split, they patched it up and made it home okay.
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Zeitgeist 13 · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2015 3:06 pm Post subject:

That seems like an odd failure point.
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