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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 17, 2008 - 01:05am PT
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OK volks! Lynne was trying to hijack her own picture thread on a Volkswagen tangent... so I thought I'd just go ahead and start another... some of you posted on the car breakdown and climbing trips - a lament thread a little over a year ago... but I thought I'd post and repost a few here... all VW's
We had them because it was the only car we could afford, both to buy and to keep running. I think I touched every part of that 1961 bus, every part. And the 1967 Bug (no pictures...) and the 1970's bus...
Here's to those great cars that carried us to adventures.. sometimes carried us into adventures.
Long may you run
Debbie, infant Stephanie and ZOT580 at my grandmother's in Belmont, MA, 1977
Mike, Richie and Bill, with ZOT580 in New Hampshire, 1979
Stephanie and ZOT580 outside of the Tarrytown, NY appartment, c. 1979
5257APO out in front of the Tarrytown, NY appartment, early 1980s
Mike and 5257APO at Stoney Clove, NY for some ice climbing, 1985
George, me and 510OW at Olmstead Pt. pullout, Tuolumne Meadows
Lawrence, me, Bill, Richie and Mike, reunion in Tuolumne Meadows, with 510OW, summer 2006
loading 510OW onto the car carrier, Pimm NV, failed Sushifest I trip (image by Jaybro)
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Jun 17, 2008 - 01:07am PT
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Something wafts of rebirth! or is it French fries?
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 17, 2008 - 01:10am PT
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it started last week, for me... soon, soon...
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nick d
Trad climber
nm
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Jun 17, 2008 - 01:10am PT
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510 OW can pass a California emission test? Just curious after seeing that last photo.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 17, 2008 - 01:14am PT
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busted ring... read the Sushifest I thread for the story... but it is about to become a bio-diesel burning, high mpg, TDI totting super-bus.
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Jun 17, 2008 - 01:17am PT
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TLY 986 outside view, 1985
TLY 986 inside view, 1978
349 UZE family christmas in Baja, 2007
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jun 17, 2008 - 01:25am PT
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Ed...you have no idea on what you started.
My wife, son and Alreet 2 at the Gunks in 1978.
I have so many fond memories with that bus, traveling cross country numerous times, taking our son home from the hospital after he was born, traveling with my wife, our son and Lab, Tesuque to different climbing areas, day trips into the mountains and basically our house for a summer in Santa Fe the year before our first was born.
We set out on our life together in that bus...I have a cool picture of us on our wedding day about to get into Alreet after the wedding.
Our 65 bug that I just sold to get a primo 67 bug.
My wife and I counted that we had 15 different VW's by the time we were 25 years old.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Jun 17, 2008 - 09:34am PT
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Don't know if the link will work, but a shot of my buddy Tim's 1990 Synchro Westie in front of the Cap...
and in front of the 0.5 Dome...
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salad
climber
Escondido
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Jun 17, 2008 - 11:28am PT
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heading to the gunks, 1999
headin to veed, 1999
thought i had more pics of the great gray beast online.. will search some out tonight and upload...
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salad
climber
Escondido
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Jun 17, 2008 - 11:46am PT
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tessa's first camping trip at 3 months old, sonora pass
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L
climber
A rubber raft in a sea of sharp teeth...
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Jun 17, 2008 - 12:22pm PT
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Great thread, Ed. I remember that shot that Jaybro took from ex-SushiFest I.
I, myself, loser that I am, never owned a VW. The guy I dated my senior year in high school did, however--a bright shiny red van. I was just learning to drive...had driven my grandmother's 55 Chevy once--and decided I could just as easily handle a stick.
The harsh bite of reality got me going uphill, right in front of my high school as everyone was walking out the front doors and heading home. I stalled the thing when I stopped at the crosswalk. And then, with 200 pairs of eyes watching me, had to let it roll all the way back down the hill to flatland so I could get it started again.
I've never dared drive a VW again. :-)
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 17, 2008 - 01:45pm PT
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Russ has many proud pix too, and the actual item parked in his driveway, just waiting for that short-block order to be filled...
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The hear and now, currently Pasadena, CA
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Jun 17, 2008 - 02:05pm PT
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I love these VW themed threads. Thanks Ed!
Never had one myself, but my dad had a 1960 blue bug convertible that carried all of my brothers and I to the hospital and home when we were born. No mean feat since my parents lived about three hours from the hospital where I needed to get birthed (but that's another story).
I still remember that car... leaky roof, dad always boasting how good it was to blow by other vehicles in the New England ice and snow.
I drove a VW bus one summer in 1985 for about an hour when working at a summer camp in Wisconsin. Dang that was fun!
Salad, those are some damn hairy legs! :-)
Fletch
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salad
climber
Escondido
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Jun 17, 2008 - 02:13pm PT
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fletcher, we had been on the road for three months at that point and my wife wasnt wasting money on razors, so she was just letting it go(grow)!
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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Jun 17, 2008 - 02:28pm PT
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lil Jefe waiting patiently for whenever I get around to fixing all that's broke.
A great sticker for the tailgaters.
^^^ Yes that's a '74 VW Automatic, the first year zee Germans were allowed the technology after WW2.
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F10 Climber F11 Drinker
Trad climber
medicated and flat on my back
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Jun 17, 2008 - 02:30pm PT
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Fish might dig the homemade haulbag, maroon and hot pink (free materials/borrowed??)
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swill
Social climber
Colorado
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Jun 17, 2008 - 03:16pm PT
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It wasn't all love and happiness! Baja 1981 with the bus "Lucky." We did a rebuild on this van a year latter in the lodge lot with the help of some great guy's who seem to hang around this place supertopo. Thanks!
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Jun 17, 2008 - 03:23pm PT
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Ed, thanks for saving me from myself....I think. You have to admit it was a good idea. smiles Lynne
ps, the foot photos are a nice touch. I say more foot photos.
So, now I can put a face with a name, nice to see you Blinny.
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