Itinerant Air-Cooled Greetings From Chicago
- Amskeptic
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Itinerant Air-Cooled Greetings From Chicago
It is 55* and misty rainy grey. I say, "that is not fair." The planet could care less.
I have just finished a day with BobD's bus, the sweetest, tightest, cleanest, peppiest, smoothest bus in the country. Today's big big list of projects included dusting the instrument panel, removing smudges from the driver's door glass, wiping clean the upper engine tins, adding exactly 2 psi to each tire, and driving it. Yes, driving the bus was a mandated requirement. I looked through that windshield with the VW-Audi watermark and marvelled at the entire experience.
This. Is. A. New. Volkswagen. Bus.
No two ways about it. And there is BobD sitting next to me, "you could have powered it through this corner" but no, I needed the excuse to double-clutch downshift and feel that transaxle catch 2nd like a
New. Volkswagen. Bus. Here. Now. and I am driving it.
And you want to get going on the freeway on-ramp? Just wind it out barely noticeably and it is 18/32/55/70 lickity split quiet tight snug and clean with a really really white headliner and white sunvisors and big beautiful black windshield seal against perfect white paint and handsome brown door panels and it is a Good Car. Good Spirit. Agreeable. Poised.
I want it. . . .
My bus is tactful when I load my carcass back into it, by reminding me what makes it special too, like it has never belched any horrid clouds of blue smoke when starting in the presence of the BobD bus, and it is quieter. But we both know, and you do too, that 552,000 miles loosens things up, and my bus really does have much more chassis flex, and the ever more obvious and apparent realization that I have massaged most all of its parts past their service lives.
On my way to BobD's this morning, I had the singularly most amazing experience, rivalling the Parting Of The Red Sea, of actually driving into and through Chicago at highway speeds. Of course, it wasn't going to be a flawless passage, traffic did jam up good north of the city on the 94, but it is better! Progress. . . . sometimes DOES occur.
Tonight, I backtrack to Michigan. Tell ya about it later. But let's just say, I'd like to finish what I started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Colin
Colin
I have just finished a day with BobD's bus, the sweetest, tightest, cleanest, peppiest, smoothest bus in the country. Today's big big list of projects included dusting the instrument panel, removing smudges from the driver's door glass, wiping clean the upper engine tins, adding exactly 2 psi to each tire, and driving it. Yes, driving the bus was a mandated requirement. I looked through that windshield with the VW-Audi watermark and marvelled at the entire experience.
This. Is. A. New. Volkswagen. Bus.
No two ways about it. And there is BobD sitting next to me, "you could have powered it through this corner" but no, I needed the excuse to double-clutch downshift and feel that transaxle catch 2nd like a
New. Volkswagen. Bus. Here. Now. and I am driving it.
And you want to get going on the freeway on-ramp? Just wind it out barely noticeably and it is 18/32/55/70 lickity split quiet tight snug and clean with a really really white headliner and white sunvisors and big beautiful black windshield seal against perfect white paint and handsome brown door panels and it is a Good Car. Good Spirit. Agreeable. Poised.
I want it. . . .
My bus is tactful when I load my carcass back into it, by reminding me what makes it special too, like it has never belched any horrid clouds of blue smoke when starting in the presence of the BobD bus, and it is quieter. But we both know, and you do too, that 552,000 miles loosens things up, and my bus really does have much more chassis flex, and the ever more obvious and apparent realization that I have massaged most all of its parts past their service lives.
On my way to BobD's this morning, I had the singularly most amazing experience, rivalling the Parting Of The Red Sea, of actually driving into and through Chicago at highway speeds. Of course, it wasn't going to be a flawless passage, traffic did jam up good north of the city on the 94, but it is better! Progress. . . . sometimes DOES occur.
Tonight, I backtrack to Michigan. Tell ya about it later. But let's just say, I'd like to finish what I started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Colin
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
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
- chitwnvw
- Resident Troublemaker
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Re: Itinerant Air-Cooled Greetings From Chicago
It does happen.Amskeptic wrote: I had the singularly most amazing experience, rivalling the Parting Of The Red Sea, of actually driving into and through Chicago at highway speeds.
Coming in on I-55 (and 90/94 in the same area ) as you approach LSD, is truly a beautiful experience, a skyline to rival anything, especially at night.
Welcome to Chi-town. It is what you make of it.
- zblair
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Glad you enjoyed your time with BobD and his beautiful bus.
Chi-town redefined the term "defensive driving" for me. Completely!
There are so many things about Chicago that I love, too. The skyline, Wrigley Field,
the architecture, The Art Institute of Chicago, The BLUES Chicago style, Any and all
music I've heard there, The Taste of Chicago Food Fest, the science museum near
the University....
Chi-town redefined the term "defensive driving" for me. Completely!
There are so many things about Chicago that I love, too. The skyline, Wrigley Field,
the architecture, The Art Institute of Chicago, The BLUES Chicago style, Any and all
music I've heard there, The Taste of Chicago Food Fest, the science museum near
the University....
1974 T1 Super Beetle "Fweem"
2017 Honda HRV "Domina"
"Love something? Serve it."
~Roshni Mitra
2017 Honda HRV "Domina"
"Love something? Serve it."
~Roshni Mitra
- hambone
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I'll be there in a couple days. Sure miss that place, it's gonna be nice to connect again. Hell my Grandparents were born there. But I flew th' coop.
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- chitwnvw
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I have gotten used to it, and so don't notice it so much, but there is a sick glee in sticking it to someone, leaving them hanging, while driving around here. There's not much seeing someone needs to get over and making room for them, no you make sure they can't move over and enjoy their discomfort as they miss their exit. A**holes.zblair wrote: Chi-town redefined the term "defensive driving" for me. Completely!
This makes me like riding my bike all the more. I call the shots.
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In Boston traffic, you don't use turn signals for lane changes. That is a fatal error, just start moving over. You have to choose who to crowd out of your space, you don't want to crowd a beat up work truck, the driver may not care about a ding or dent. Crowd the nice Beemer or the late model Escalade they'll let you in. Once you cross the dotted line into your chosen lane turn on your signal.
Bill
Bill
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- Vdubtech
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Nice description Colin.....next time you're in NY you should take my '79 orange and brown rotbox for a spin. It's smoothness and power are something I've never felt in a Bus. Going from it to my blue Riviera is like going from a Ferrari to a Pinto. Original 51K miles on it when I got it and last week she cracked 55K. Delivered a camper interior to Binghamton last weekend and will be delivering another to Hershey, PA this weekend. Supposed to be 90 and sticky. Anyway, outside of the nice paint and nice seals, driving that Bus reminded me of how it feels to drive that poor rotted out Bus.
- Hippie
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Oh yeah. Never signal.chitwnvw wrote:There's not much seeing someone needs to get over and making room for them, no you make sure they can't move over and enjoy their discomfort as they miss their exit. A**holes.
I'm for the European style of road rules. Signal and pull over. If you happen to colide with the ass that didn't get out of the way, he pays for the repairs!
Rob
- vwlover77
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Re: Itinerant Air-Cooled Greetings From Chicago
Oh, my lord, I'm hyperventilating. It reminds me of the nightmare illustration in the Muir book!Amskeptic wrote:But let's just say, I'd like to finish what I started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Colin
"Now, dang... where is my 13mm socket?????"
Don
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"When we let our compassion go, we let go of whatever claim we have to the divine." - Bruce Springsteen
- Amskeptic
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Re: Itinerant Air-Cooled Greetings From Chicago
Well thank YOU for noticing this most-amazing display of VW entropy. The other posters here are devoted to a traffic psychology treatise while I too am staring at this in amazement. It has to be running by tomorrow night before I head back to Chicago.vwlover77 wrote:Oh, my lord, I'm hyperventilating. It reminds me of the nightmare illustration in the Muir book!
"Now, dang... where is my 13mm socket?????"
Colin
(Hambone, you going to be in Chicago?)
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
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
- dingo
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Now one and one is two, two and two is four,
I'm heavy loaded, baby, I'm booked I got to go.
Cryin', baby, honey, don't you want to go?
Back to the land of California, to my sweet home Chicago.
-RJ
I'm heavy loaded, baby, I'm booked I got to go.
Cryin', baby, honey, don't you want to go?
Back to the land of California, to my sweet home Chicago.
-RJ
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';78 Tranzporter 2L
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" Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
- hambone
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I'll be there tomorrow, North and Damen. How long ya gonna be there? Peace everybody, catch ya in a few days.
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it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine
your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat
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it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine
your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat
- chitwnvw
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- hambone
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Man I LOVE going to Devon. I'll try ta find a web-connection when I'm out there.
I gotta git off this computer and get some sleep.
I gotta git off this computer and get some sleep.
http://greencascadia.blogspot.com
http://pdxvolksfolks.blogspot.com
it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine
your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat
http://pdxvolksfolks.blogspot.com
it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine
your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat