Road Warrior Meets Its End . . .

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Post by zblair » Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:41 pm

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Post by James Dwan » Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:11 pm

Amskeptic wrote:I may very well be in Tejas shortly, like within two to three weeks . . . :cyclopsani:
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Cool! Feel free to stop by on a weekend :bounce:

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Post by Amskeptic » Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:50 pm

James Dwan wrote:
Amskeptic wrote:I may very well be in Tejas shortly, like within two to three weeks . . . :cyclopsani:
Colin
Cool! Feel free to stop by on a weekend :bounce:

James
WELL? I am in Dallas-ish.
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Post by werksberg » Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:58 am

How about a thread for what is for sale from the road warrior or what has already been sold like the engine? I saw that fact on TS.

Ryno is the lucky guy!
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Post by chitwnvw » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:08 pm

Ryno got his engine?

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Post by hambone » Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:18 pm

We are the last to know?
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Post by werksberg » Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:01 pm

hambone wrote:We are the last to know?
Well, you keep playing around with your walNUTS! :geek:
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Post by hambone » Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:08 pm

I'm not even gonna TOUCH that...
okay just for a minute. :geek:
AND THE REST IS HISTORY.
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Post by riomx » Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:19 pm

chitwnvw wrote:Ryno got his engine?
Actually, I have Colin's engine. It's awaiting installation and currently resting in the back of my 75 bus at the moment:

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Though I guarantee that nobody in this thread knows who I am, I do know who Colin is and I am 100% grateful to have received the engine and have helped (albeit minimally, because Bretski, pb24ss and Calivw78 were madmen and finished almost everything the first day) in the careful parting of the Road Warrior.

I'm mostly on TheSamba, but I enjoy being here as well and look forwarding to contributing more.
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Post by pb24ss » Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:24 pm

i know who you are. you are deserving of this engine, and i'm glad i was able to help you get it. it did tear me up to tear apart the road warrior though.

colin .. how long did the dot job on the headliner take you?!?!?!
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Post by pb24ss » Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:27 pm

here's a few pics of round one of the road warrior party. bretski will post more and all the details on all the parts available soon.

http://calivw78.com/v/busowners/amskept ... rrior/part
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Post by riomx » Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:34 pm

pb24ss wrote:i know who you are. you are deserving of this engine, and i'm glad i was able to help you get it. it did tear me up to tear apart the road warrior though.
Thanks Dan - really appreciate it.

And yes, the experience of seeing the Road Warrior like that was somber. You could see Colin's love and meticulous caring in every single minute detail on that bus.

It gives us all something to aspire to.
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Post by werksberg » Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:41 pm

Well, it is good to hear the heart beat of the road warrior will continue on....beat.... beat....
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Post by hambone » Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:54 pm

That's a big and sad job. thank you guys for doing that.
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Post by Amskeptic » Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:46 pm

pb24ss wrote: it did tear me up to tear apart the road warrior though.

colin .. how long did the dot job on the headliner take you?!?!?!
I still react seeing the pictures. Some part of me still expects to just step outside, vault over the floor speaker, start it up and drive . . . anywhere.
Seeing the parts that I lived with for 30 years just up and go. Oh well. Next chapter.
Colin
(the 68,000 headliner dots took nine days of monk/Zen flow with plenty of good music, courtesy that Kenwood AM/FM/Cassette player, and a mattress laid out on the seats so I could just lay there and do long rows and columns of dots. The job used five Sharpie markers total, kept sharp with the bench grinder every five hundred dots or so. We have a member of the forum here who saw it happen)
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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