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by covelo » Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:38 pm
Colin visited with us and our bus in Santa Cruz on Friday. An excellent productive and fun day. The highlight was a carburator rebuild involving a Dremel tool (to free a misaligned idle plunger bore) but we also replaced a completely closed brake hose (with a genuine BobD loaner) and spent some quality time with a variety of head light dimmer relays. It was a very nice and sunny and warm day in Santa Cruz with lots of attractive bikini-clad beachgoers walking by and commenting on our buses (well, mostly on the shiny BobD). It would have made an excellent episode for the IAC reality show, especially with the dramatic discussion of the Great Type 4 Bearing Shortage at the local Volkscafe. I even got Colin to drink two of my home-brewed IPAs. As always, well worth the investment!
‘80 Vanagon Westfalia - 54,400 miles
'91 Toyota Pickup (4WD long bed) - 199,960 miles
1987 Alfa Spider Veloce - 166,400 miles
2017 VW E-Golf - 5,600 miles