Lucky Lab

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hambone
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Re: Lucky Lab

Post by hambone » Mon Jul 31, 2017 11:26 am

See you there!
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Re: Lucky Lab

Post by tristessa » Mon Jul 31, 2017 4:14 pm

vistacruzer wrote:
Mon Jul 31, 2017 7:55 am
What time are we starting?
When we get there and not a moment sooner.
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Re: Lucky Lab

Post by 71whitewesty » Tue Aug 01, 2017 9:31 am

Well that was sure fun! What a great bunch of Bus nuts. Great to meet some of you for the first time and great seeing the others I've met before. That parking lot was full of great running buses. If any of you traveling vagabons feel like making it out to Hood River, let me know and I'll show you around and you can camp at my place. However with this heat wave I might blast out to the coast wednesday-Thursday and head back on Friday.
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Re: Lucky Lab

Post by Amskeptic » Tue Aug 01, 2017 9:50 pm

71whitewesty wrote:
Tue Aug 01, 2017 9:31 am
What a great bunch of Bus nuts.
=D>

Dang straight.
Tristessa let me drive his 5-speed turbo 1.8 bus jacked on one and a sixteenth beers and that thing actually has some engineering going on back there. Smooth, sprightly . . . . :

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Xevin made it to the Lucky Lab with Rusty the '72. He is clearly delighted with something about an engine that now only goes 70% as fast as it used to:

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Asiab3's illuminated engine room in his bus was detailed to the 10's and his sliding door was 10/10th's too. I was too inebriated to photograph his illuminated engine, or jealous, I can't remember. That was Heather's red bus to the side. She was there. :

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The Itinerant guy was there, looking a little inebriated. Did I talk with him? I can't remember:

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Hambone showed up in his beautiful bus with really nice hubcaps and the spare wheel matching his air cleaner and generator. I never did get to drive it, I was probably too inebriated:

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Mental Q-Tip couldn't bring his bus, so he caught a quick 1.8 turbo shuttle over to the Lucky Lab:

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There were more people than I could remember, but Shawn was there, Sluggo (our co-Administrator) was there, NY Cynthia showed up with her yellow '68 parked next to tristessa's 1.8 reverse-rotation turbo 5-speed, man, who all was there, 71 whitewesty, kubelwagen, Gypsie! Sunnydog, Bleyseng-but-briefly, we drank beer:

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and Hambone drank beer too:

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Even the paparazzi was feeling it:

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The Defenders Of The Order Of Baywindow Mechanical Order were pretty focused if the photographer was not:

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Vistacruzer and asiab3:

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Sunnydog, daughter, and Shawn:

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That Itinerant guy just wouldn't give it a rest!:

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But the company was excellent, and the beer was too!

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BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Re: Lucky Lab

Post by hambone » Tue Aug 01, 2017 11:04 pm

More messed up than I realized, apparently!
Ha!
Oh man these are the times that make life really special. I feel like Kevin Arnold.
PS I am drinking water in all of those photos. Water.
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http://pdxvolksfolks.blogspot.com
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Re: Lucky Lab

Post by Amskeptic » Wed Aug 02, 2017 9:55 am

hambone wrote:
Tue Aug 01, 2017 11:04 pm
More messed up than I realized, apparently!
Ha!
Oh man these are the times that make life really special. I feel like Kevin Arnold.
PS I am drinking water in all of those photos. Water.
Wow. Don't let me be on your jury.
I never even noticed that it was just good pure Nature's Best Real Water.
ColinWaterTODAYAllRight113*
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Re: Lucky Lab

Post by hambone » Wed Aug 02, 2017 3:04 pm

To be fair, the water was inbetween beers. And I was pretty baked offa Sluggo's joints.
Come back and see us before another year, ehhh?
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Re: Lucky Lab

Post by Bleyseng » Wed Aug 02, 2017 8:09 pm

I was there in the background and I never saw Gypsie? I had to leave to drive back after 8PM just when the joints were coming out.
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Re: Lucky Lab

Post by Amskeptic » Wed Aug 02, 2017 8:37 pm

Bleyseng wrote:
Wed Aug 02, 2017 8:09 pm
I was there in the background and I never saw Gypsie? I had to leave to drive back after 8PM just when the joints were coming out.
I hope others post their pictures. heck, I hope they visit this thread.
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Re: Lucky Lab

Post by drober23 » Thu Aug 03, 2017 5:40 am

Sounds like you all had a good time! Like a VW Bus family reunion.

I hope they post their pictures too. Its nice to be able to put faces to some of the names I see posting on here.
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Re: Lucky Lab

Post by Amskeptic » Fri Aug 04, 2017 9:27 pm

We had a discussion about the solar eclipse. I don't remember who I was talking with. The discussion got into questions about which way the shadow was going. Somebody threw me off my understanding of the progression.
"Planet rotates from east to west. Eclipse begins on the east coast and ends on the west coast."

Here is a satellite time lapse of a solar eclipse. The moon's shadow skates across from west to east, as I thought. It is astonishingly beautiful to see the weather happen in this time lapse. Hit it before the link goes dead. I'll delete this later after the dead link happens, so you all can get back to the Lucky Lab beer marathon:

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/scie ... pe=article
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Re: Lucky Lab

Post by asiab3 » Sat Aug 05, 2017 1:03 am

I know we talked about it on the back porch with Xevin and Cynthia... That post clears things up a bit. :)

I'll post my Lab pictures when I find wifi. Currently on a powerline road outside Los Angeles. (Yes Xevin, you read that correctly.)

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Re: Lucky Lab

Post by vistacruzer » Mon Aug 07, 2017 9:05 am

great day for a beer
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Re: Lucky Lab

Post by tristessa » Mon Aug 07, 2017 3:57 pm

vistacruzer wrote:
Mon Aug 07, 2017 9:05 am
great day for a beer
Must be a day ending in "Y"...
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Re: Lucky Lab

Post by asiab3 » Tue Aug 08, 2017 10:16 pm

asiab3 wrote:
Sat Aug 05, 2017 1:03 am
I'll post my Lab pictures when I find wifi. Currently on a powerline road outside Los Angeles. (Yes Xevin, you read that correctly.)
So we just clocked 1,200 miles in two days, and I'm finally finding a laptop with an SD card slot… I hope you enjoy…

Xevin FINALLY joined me in the kissing booth:

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Colin managed to tolerate a hug from Gypsie, though it seems like some substances may have helped…

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71whitewesty and I finally got a picture together, after he tried to kill me by giving me a mountain bike last year!

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SunnyDog showing off his peppy new 1776cc single port, and the lighting system to match:

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And the "game winner" for me was finally getting a picture with that Amskeptic dude after four years of him keeping me on my diagnostic toes.

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Good roads everyone, I'll see you folks soon,
Robbie
1969 bus, "Buddy."
145k miles with me.
322k miles on Earth.

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