Itinerant Air-Cooled

whc03grady wrote: Late July=no fireworks and parades? It just won't be the same.

Who said no fireworks? There will be electrical work ...

Well, we may have to skip a year, Colin.

Bluebird will be undergoing body surgery this summer in Denver, starting in June. That's the plan, anyway. And, with the exception of the oil gallery plug incident which has just come to resolution, everything else is running fine.

You do need to catch up with Mr Sweet and Bussy sometime though. That bus needs some adjustment. Bussy is currently here in Los Alamos, FWIW.

jtauxe wrote:Well, we may have to skip a year, Colin.

Bluebird will be undergoing body surgery this summer in Denver, starting in June. That's the plan, anyway. And, with the exception of the oil gallery plug incident which has just come to resolution, everything else is running fine.

You do need to catch up with Mr Sweet and Bussy sometime though. That bus needs some adjustment. Bussy is currently here in Los Alamos, FWIW.

I will drive by your house slowly, like those Orkin pesticide ads, on my way to the Bowers. Please tell them that they have a $300.00 credit, and I need their List.
Then I will drive slowly past your house again.
Colin

Count me in for July. Portland area. I'm sure the portland area buses look forward to your return as mush as I am. Paypal coming.

shawnhigh wrote:Count me in for July. Portland area. I'm sure the portland area buses look forward to your return as mush as I am. Paypal coming.

Hello shawnhigh,

Do not fire off a PayPal until we have an actual date set up. Then your PayPal payment becomes our legal contract. Do send me a PM with your model year, your list of concerns, your work environment, and your dreams for your bus.
Colin

Sign me up when you figure out when you are heading this way. I have been spoiled by having an IAC visit at the end of mud season and the beginning of the spring/summer driving season. I have more than vent windows planned for this year. Maybe I will have it all done by the time you get around to the Northeast.

aopisa wrote: Maybe I will have it all done by the time you get around to the Northeast.

Maybe we can do a heater/defroster/locks/undercarriage prep enhancement just before the fall season hits,
then sit back in the Adirondack chairs with a spiked cider and ponder the future . . .
of pork belly contracts.
Colin

Amskeptic wrote:

aopisa wrote: Maybe I will have it all done by the time you get around to the Northeast.

Maybe we can do a heater/defroster/locks/undercarriage prep enhancement just before the fall season hits,
then sit back in the Adirondack chairs with a spiked cider and ponder the future . . .
of pork belly contracts.
Colin

For the past two years you have made remarks about the center pin bushing. So, I am thinking at the moment that's where the focus might be. If you recall from last year's door dismantlement, my locks have been bastardized by the PO's keyless entry hack. Heater defroster prep would be nice though.

I have sadly given up the grand sweeping vistas of the Battenkill Valley. I am now a forest dweller residing in a more manageable and equally less impressive swinging space age bachelor ranch in Manchester, VT. It does have a nice 2 car garage in case the weather is uncooperative.

We can still sit on the porch and mull over the vegan alternative of tofu futures (soybean) with a mug of fortified cider....

aopisa wrote: I have sadly given up the grand sweeping vistas of the Battenkill Valley. I am now a forest dweller residing in a more manageable and equally less impressive swinging space age bachelor ranch in Manchester, VT.

The Universe is eager to annoint those who gracefully give up such splendid beauty in the name of Experience.
ColinOrSomesuch

PMs, people. I need your PMs with your hopes and your dreams and your highest aspirations. . . so we can begin to knock them out.
Colin

Amskeptic wrote:PMs, people. I need your PMs with your hopes and your dreams and your highest aspirations. . . so we can begin to knock them out.
Colin

"While wishing and hoping makes you a dreamer, acting and doing makes you someone who can turn dreams into reality." Nan S. Russell

How are you at body work?

If you happen to be passing thru the Seattle area drop me a PM. I'll have some diet coke on hand and the Mrs. will have some japanese food for the hungry in need of a break. I'm just off the 405 near Boeing. Travel safe.

Sylvester wrote:

Amskeptic wrote:PMs, people. I need your PMs with your hopes and your dreams and your highest aspirations. . . so we can begin to knock them out.
Colin

"While wishing and hoping makes you a dreamer, acting and doing makes you someone who can turn dreams into reality." Nan S. Russell

How are you at body work?

My specialty is fully uncertified hackery . . . that seems to work mostly.
Colin

72Hardtop wrote:If you happen to be passing thru the Seattle area drop me a PM. I'll have some diet coke on hand and the Mrs. will have some japanese food for the hungry in need of a break. I'm just off the 405 near Boeing. Travel safe.

Thanks for the offer, give me a PM when you see me approaching.
Colin

Put me down for a day.
Looks like August, hopefully the weather will be better for you.

I don't know what we'll tackle yet, but I'll be working on my list.