Das Volks Vintage Volkswagen Gruppe

Came across this picture today. My first camper, a 1971 (with a 1974 nose). This was in 1989. The little boy in the front is my youngest brother,
now married with 2 kids. Wish I could find pictures of it restored, about a year or so later.

That house looks kind of familiar. LOL! For those of you who don't know Rob and I grew up two blocks away from each other. At one time he lived 4 houses away. We never knew each other. Small world.

The yellow 70's plates from this bus are the ones on my camper now

Happy birthday Rob.

Hope you're having a great birthday.

happy birthday rob

happy birthday rob

Thanks!

Happy belated

Time to upgrade my battery. Was thinking Optima, any recommendations?

Any brand of agm is good choice for cars that sit for periods of time, doesnt have to be optima, there are less costly options, for the same technology, I just put an agm bosch battery its made by exide in jess subaru, seems good so far, noticibly better cranking, for a car with an anemic starter

Ugh.

I knew it was going to be halfway decent today, so I had planned to take the camper to work. When I got outside, I saw frost on the windshield and wimped out. I gotta replace that damn battery but have no motivation to deal with it lately.

Oh well, maybe next weekend.

I hate the winter.

Rob you want to go half on a place in Arizona?

https://youtu.be/c1cZv3BtecE

Put the android radio in today, working well. I want to run a cable from the video/audio out to the back of the bus so I can have a monitor in the back for movies when "camping"

Also going to hook a modified dash cam in front so I can webcast to Facebook live for parades and such. Need warmer temps to get more motivated!

Another "lucky it happened close to home". Dang clutch cable went. I think it stretched, it barely worked pushed all the way down. Gonna rain this weekend so I'll deal with it during the week.

your lucky... mine has broken in the arizona desert and it broke late at night in front of the white house, as a few other places closer to home, i drove mine from robert moses to malverne once with no clutch. the strands break one by one till there all gone.

I've had it happen a few times over the years in various busses. Not hard to get it home, just be gentle and enjoy the bouncing leaving stoplights

The stress last night was that I was feeling really sick and was kinda in a hurry to get home LOL

Another month or so and I'll have a garage to work in!

I may have found my clutch problem. Hope it doesn't rain Sunday.

Oh yeah.. i know the feeling clutch pedal gets lower on every press then plink it snaps and pedal drops to the floor and sits there..

2 Cable clamps and a roll of duct tape and your good to roll.

MrBreeze wrote:

The warning light didn't come on?

Can't you duct tape that ?

I was just gonna take it out and recoil it

I blame the lack of rust on the cable for the failure.

Always the last bolt. New cable is in but the top bolt on the bowden tube bracket is stripped. Ordered a step down stud and I'll be back under the bus on Saturday. Nice to be getting my hands dirty again, been a long time.