Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:33:12 -0500
Reply-To: "Peter T. Owsianowski" <pnoceanwesty@GMAIL.COM>
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From: "Peter T. Owsianowski" <pnoceanwesty@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Bus BRR One Week Countdown!! WhooHooo!
In-Reply-To: <0CA4793A-58E2-40E7-9A2A-D8D7A4B16166@kippert.com>
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Hey, Mark:
Sorry to hear of your troubles. Hope the coolant leak is not too serious.
Happy to report our '79 Aardvark has heat! It fired right up tonight after
sitting in the barn since November (about the last time we saw the ground!)
and the heat fix worked! Took a shakedown cruise of about 35 minutes and it
ran great.
We are packed up and ready to hit the road for Pokagon in the morning. The
weather forecast for lovely Angola, Indiana is for a high of 31F and a low
of 15F. This will be really manageable after last year's high of 12 and low
of 2 above. Heard from Jeff Lincoln. He and his boy Jack got there about
8:30 after a 3.5 hour drive. I talked to Jack on the cell - he was about
out of his mind with excitement about the big toboggan ride.
So, we are sad about '87 Vanagon JoesVan, but it will live again after we
pull the engine. Meanwhile, we'll hit the road with what passes for heat in
'79
See everybody tomorrow at Pokagon! IMark, will be great to see you at Bus
Benefit in the Spring!
I'll post a trip report next week.
Pete
'79 Westy "Aardvark"
'87 Westy "Joe's Van"
WWW.Busesbythebeach.com
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Mark A Kippert <vanagon@kippert.com> wrote:
> I am so bummed this week as I had really hope to make this event. It
> would have been my first Vanagon outing. As mentioned in earlier posts
> I have a coolant leak that I don't trust to drive outside of Indy. I
> was going to give it my best to fix it during this past couple weeks
> but other things got in the way. The wife got her walking papers (her
> company closed it's doors) and my Mac shop (helpmymac.com) got
> burglarized earlier this week (thank God I have an alarm system).
>
> Ah well, it's Friday and I'm venting. My apologies. Thankfully my
> business is doing OK (sadly thanks to a crappy economy) so all things
> considered it's not so bad.
>
> I do hope things have worked out for you Pete, what with your tranny
> problems. Heck I had even toyed with the idea of towing my Vanagon up
> there behind my Expedition :o)
>
> Anyhow, I hope everyone has a good time. Looks like a good weekend
> ahead! My hope it to make the next event which I think is in the Spring.
>
> Mark K
> 1986 GL/2WD/4SPD
>
>
>
> On Feb 22, 2009, at 4:34 PM, Peter T. Owsianowski wrote:
>
> Hey, Volks!
>>
>> Forecast for next Saturday for lovely Angola, Indiana is a high of
>> 32 and a
>> low of 22
>> degrees. This is perfect Bus BRR weather. It makes the chili taste
>> better
>> after the tobaggan run!
>>
>> Hope to see everybody there around the big bonfire in Campground #3
>> next
>> Saturday. We should roll in around 1:00PM to set up and get the fire
>> going.
>> C ya there!
>>
>> --
>> Pete
>> '79 Westy "Aardvark"
>> '87 Westy "Joe's Van"
>> WWW.Busesbythebeach.com <http://www.busesbythebeach.com/> <
>> http://www.busesbythebeach.com/>
>>
>>
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