Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

yuck. Pack the car and head for parade.

I will be moving the 911 to the air conditioned work bay and start packing much of the "stuff" that goes on a trip this weekend.

From all the car wash crap, enough tools to do some minor fixes, and the spare oil and oil funnels. Of course the GPS gets hooked up, and the computer bags get all packed with charging cables, and all updated. Backup files, phones backed up and so on.

[GH85Carrera]

It had been getting really dry for a few minutes and anther round of rain came through. We are now up to 1.08 inches of rain and 99% humidity. Just 74 degrees still.

[Porsche-poor]

yikes that sounds more like here.

[GH85Carrera]

We have had just under 14 inches of rain since June first. Most of it in the last 10 days.

[GH85Carrera]

This morning the humidity is pegged, 100% at 72 degrees. We ended up getting 1.78 inches of rain yesterday. More today and then finally some dry time. We are well above normal rainfall for the year. Likely we will go a month with no rain at some point in the summer. We have been so dry the humidity is in the single digits.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning. All overcast here today. Coll right now but supposed to warm up later today.

[GH85Carrera]

I was just chatting with my brother. He is excited about the replacement camper-van for his 71 camper that was totaled. I found an ad on the Samba and it was a really well decked out super nice 71 that a guy built it for his wife. It has a roof mounted AC unit and a Honda generator on the front to power it, a shower, and hot and cold running water. The guy got it finished and just a year later his wife died. He has been turning down offers from others because he felt they were flippers and not "real VW folks". My brother instantly connected with the guy when he choked up about the loss of his 71 he had owned for almost 50 years.

The guy is going to deliver the van from Florida, after his body shop fixes some minor rust on the battery box and gets it all cleaned up. He is adopting out the van to someone (my brother) that will cherish it, and that is more important than the money to him.

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2445066

This is it.

[ted]

Absolutely the worst manual shifting underpowered vehicle I've ever driven was a VW bus.
If I were to go camping with the family in a VW bus I'd be concerned about a missed shift and mechanically over revved engine.
That or being rear ended as it climbed a hill in second gear on the freeway.
OK for a short trip to the beach for the day but I would not trust it for a long trip.
I've owned 30 aircooled VWs and none of them were buses.
Here I am slamming gears in my buddy's bus.

[ted]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

. He is adopting out the van to someone (my brother) that will cherish it, and that is more important than the money to him.

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2445066

This is it.

At $33k it about $10k over priced to me.
It is so over modified it has no original value either.
Generator mounted in front of the bus all kinds of retired guy with too much time mods.
Sorry but that's a total waste, to each his own.

[Porsche-poor]

a 911 engine would fit in it just fine.

[ted]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

a 911 engine would fit in it just fine.

I'd use a more affordable sube motor and spend the saved $20k on a pick up truck and tow bar to be able to retrieve it when it breaks down.

[GH85Carrera]

Ted, my brother bought his 1971 Westfallia camper van in 1975 for $400 with a blown engine. He does not remember if it is 400K or 500K on as the odometer rolled over too many times since 1975. He loved that vehicle and has had over 100 deer from deer hunting on top, and been camping in zero degrees and 110 degrees. It is his thing, and he raised two boys that loved that old van.

It was totaled in a towing accident when pulled behind his Class A motorhome.

He wanted a 1971, not a 70 or 72 or any other year. This one is expensive, but it was done up buy an old VW guy for the guys wife. It is more of an adoption than a sale. The current owner turned down offers from others that saw it as a flip.

This is just to replace a beloved vehicle and it will be a nicer one than his old baby.

He wanted a 71 because it has the disk brakes, and better transmission, yet the old type 1 upright engine. He has lots of spare parts and can rebuild it with ease. His old one was totaled by the insurance company and brought almost 25K. He bought the old one back from the insurance company and it is stored inside now. The parts off of it will be enough to be close to a even trade for the new one.

It is not a pure economic purchase, lots of emotions involved. They can afford it, and he wants it. End of story for him. The current owner has the van at a body shop getting the battery box repaired and some other things he wants to do to it to make it perfect as possible before he sells it for the already agreed price. The money is not the
issue for either side.

[ted]

Glen happy your brother found the camper of his dreams.
Great he can afford it but he isn't getting a deal on it.
The seller could never get $40k for it.
Half million miles in a bus, your brother is a patient driver.
I'm grateful I only spent 10 miles driving a bus.

Funny story the worst exploded bus engine I ever saw....
Was some guy ground towing his bus across 3 states.
He hooked up the tow bar to his pick up and towed the bus for 3 days.
Unaware he had left the bus in first gear till 3 days later when he arrived at the destination.
The top half of the bus motor was blown off as the poor motor must of spun up over 10k rpm for many hours.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, my brother is a total VW guy. My first two cars were VWs, the first was the mighty 1960 Bug with the ground pounding 36 HP. 0 to 60 was only possible with no headwind at all.

My brother goes to lots of VW car shows, and his daily driver is a 54 bug. He loved his old camper. The seller did not build it to resell. He built it as a labor of love for his wife. She died, and he hates seeing the van sit and not be driven. It is going to a good home and he sold it for less than asking price, and is delivering it to my brother's house.

[GH85Carrera]

We have actually gone for three days with no rain. Well, just after midnight on Friday we received .02 inches but I can ignore that. The grass was still covered in dew when I mowed yesterday, and the ground is still damp.

I installed my new Blaupunkt stereo in the 911 on Saturday. I LOVE it. it sounds 100 times better than the old unit, and looks 1000 times better. It "fit" the look of the car, and has good sound, and the menus are logical and intuitive. On the old unit I carried the instructions in the car so I could figure out how to set the dang thing to random play for the USB drive.

I did update the firmware to the latest version. I bought the unit just last week, and the firmware was two revisions old. I have never update firmware on a car stereo before. It is pretty easy to do.

One things that my wife will like is a USB connector right on the face of the unit. Plug that in to the phone, and charge the phone. It has Bluetooth or we can use the cable to stream music or whatever to the radio.

[GH85Carrera]

No rain for another day! it was 69 degrees this morning. Mid 80s for the high.

I am still working on packing the 911. Going through the list of stuff to bring and gathering it and finding a place to put it is always a slow process. I did learn to make notes on my phone on what is in each bag. Most of the bags are black, and like looking into a black hole with sun glasses on.

If I am looking for an item, I want to know which bag it was packed in, and what pocket of area of the bag. Everything is packed into different bags I have been given at Parade, and lots of small bags can be stuffed into corners, and nooks and fit in a little car.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. I finally got around to getting the new computer set up and turning the old one into the video transfer box. Flipper the card you sent long ago I know I'm sloooooww will not fit. Can you guys tell me what type of card I need to pick up nased on the picture?

[flipper35]

PCI-E will work. You had a PCI slot if it were an upper model of motherboard as shown by the solder area but no slot installed.

[flipper35]

If you look for a new one, Hauppauge has USB available as well.

[Porsche-poor]

welcome to Dell and cost cutting.