Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 21:29:11 -0300
Reply-To: Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@NBNET.NB.CA>
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From: Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@NBNET.NB.CA>
Subject: Re: Vanagon Reliability & Philosophy
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Jack:
Bob was “grumpy” long before he was ill …. but grumpy like a teddy bear wrapped in sandpaper. He would go out of his way to help you through a problem on your split.
> On 04-Jul-2019, at 01:00, Jack Elliott <pdaxe2gto@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> I had the pleasure of meeting Bob Hoover before he died. He coached me a
> lot through an engine rebuild I was doing, explaining, as if to a two
> year-old, how things worked. His attitude was grumpy, and he had reasons
> both personal and medical for that. He indicated that he thought that John
> Muir got much wrong on a mechanical level. That said, Muir's relaxed
> approach to working on his VWs is something I wish I could better emulate.
>
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 5:39 AM David Higginbotham <
> davidhigginbotham1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Oh My, John Muir! I still have that grease stained volume in my shop
>> somewhere. I bought my first car in 1976, all mine with my own money car,
>> college student money I might add-hard stuff to come by, it was a ’73 super
>> beetle. I was so proud of that thing, my head swells just thinking about it
>> now. Mr. Muir and that book kept that thing running and even inspired me to
>> modify and customize. Before I was done it had Thunderbird headers, dual
>> carbs, empi shocks/suspension, short throw shift kit and a Wolfsburg badged
>> shift knob, custom leather seats, disc brakes I robbed from a junked ghia,
>> and more I have forgotten. It was my dream car and it was pretty darn fast
>> for what it was. Many adventures were had. It became the property of my ex
>> when we split up. It would be another 20 years before I got another VW, an
>> ‘82 westy. I drove that thing for another 20+ years and sold it in 2015 to
>> a young man who had just finished his undergrad degree and would be
>> starting med school the following fall. He and a couple of his buddies
>> drove it from NC to the west coast that summer where it now lives, last I
>> heard. I am now without a VW but I am looking. I always wanted a ghia, but
>> I loved my westy too, dunno what Ima do, but I know I will keep reading
>> this list everyday and keep on dreaming. Thanks folks.
>>
>> David Higginbotham
>> VWless
>> Silk Hope, NC
>>
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