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What kind of wood works best in a VW Bus?
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Reminds me of some gypsies I did some welding for when I lived in Alaska. They made their living traveling around AK pulling their ponies around giving pony rides for the kiddies. They would migrate back and forth from Arizona to AK and back.
They had a horrible old bus that was hacked and cobbled like that.
I welded in some new spring hangers and shackles for them and did some other cobbling for them. The the old man was about 60 and the wife about 45. Never heard so much swearing from a couple in all my life.
They had a daughter about 16 who could make your ears wrinkle. She was cute but tougher than nails.
I was living in my camper then and one night we had an earthquake. Made my camper rock back and forth and woke me up. It kind of freaked me out cuz I thought it was the gypsies attacking my camper. In the morning, about first light, they came over with coffee for me like they always did, gabbing away about the earthquake.
They were all of them rather odd but good people after all.
 
Nope, more like Walmart.
saw it over the holiday, hard to see in the pics, but there is smoke coming out of that stack.
 
Too adventurous for me. We've seen this bus twice in Oregon; Once about 3 years ago and again this October. The crate on the back is actually a chicken coop complete with some hens. They were sitting near the restrooms this time with a box asking for gas money also.
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A lot of those people like that are quite intelligent, they just dance to a different tune. That bus looks long for early fifties vintage. Must have been the longest model for that time. The first bus I rode was a 54 Ford 36 passenger and it wasn't near as long as this one in the picture.
 
Grateful Dead in town? Deadheads are nice, well meaning people that somehow ended up here on Mars with the rest of us. This is a confusing place.

Mark
 
Many years ago when there were a lot of hippies around, we had a garage sale and put out the hibachi that someone had given us (that we never wanted nor used). A hippie woman looked over the hibachi and wanted to know if she could use that to cook in the old bus body that she was living in. Told her that she could if she wanted to kill herself with carbon monoxide fumes. She said that she would cook outside then and bought the hibachi anyway.
 
You get up one morning, open the curtains and there it is parked at the end of your driveway. "This Bus Needs Gas". What do you do? Do you put on your robe or just walk out there in your boxers and give them a handful of cash to...help them along their way? And what if when you knock on the door to give them money to help them on their way, the door opens and your daughter that you thought was away at college opens the door and introduces you to her boyfriend named "Astro" and his children, Venus, Moon Unit, and Pluto? What then? Go back into the house and wakeup the wife and tell her that her late Christmas present just arrived and is waiting for her outside?

Mark
 

When I was growing up in the early 70's, there was a couple that lived in our little town. They were known either as "odd", "eccentric" or "those filthy bums", depending on who was doing the talking. They lived in a large old ramshackle farm house dating from the late 1800's, when people still farmed in the Adirondacks. IIRC, the house was an inheritance from his side. I never saw it myself, but they tell me the roof leaked terribly, so the odd couple simply pitched a large WW2 surplus tent in the living room and lived in it.

What I did see myself was their car. It was a large station wagon from the early 60's. Besides the smoke screen of burning oil it left when running, it's most distinctive feature was the smoke stack out the back. That and the goats. The smoke stack was from the woodstove they had in back seat to provide heat. Apparently the cars heater was inop. The goats were in the car because that's where they lived. Now, we've had goats for over 20 years, and I admit I've had a kid or doe in the back of a truck or even the suburban. But they didn't LIVE in my vehicle. I thought is was all tall tales until they pulled into a gas station one day and there it all was, big as life. I'm pretty sure the goats had bathed more recently than the human part of the equation.

I always felt bad for those goats.
 
wonder what the overall height of that is, hope he doesnt hit any of those midwestern and eastern 11 foot rail road bridges
 
Several years ago when I was at the GM Probing Grounds one day, they were testing some new Suburbans for an order for Saudi Arabia Border Guards. The requirements were that the vehicle had to be capable of driving 100 MPH across the desert, had to have a roof turret with a mounted machine gun - and the back of the vehicle had to have a pen for a goat. Seems the guards would stop for lunch, slaughter the goat, cook it and eat it for lunch. Must have been a long lunch break!
 
any wood dry enough to burn. Maybe burns wood gas? Some trucks did during WW2. Some people still run trucks on wood gas as a novelty.
 
guess nobody has told them that we already did the 60 s , have some memories dont wish to repeat the era
 
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