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mastadon

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crack addict

May 13, 2011 - 08:51am PT

Mr Carter Sir,

That's gotta be Lucy and Virginia..
Is that Vern in the background?? Great photo! Love your old Opel.

You're really pulling out some golden oldies!

tom Carter

Social climber

May 13, 2011 - 08:11pm PT

Name these two.

Haul bag by...?

Copy of C4B's

mastadon

Trad climber

crack addict

May 13, 2011 - 09:23pm PT

I know! I know!

Steve Grossman

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

May 13, 2011 - 09:45pm PT

Buttermilk Mountain Works?

guido

Trad climber

Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific

May 13, 2011 - 09:45pm PT

Jeeeez Tommy lad, I remember that pumpkin of an Opel leaking gas all over the place. At $4.00 + you would probably have to take care of that leak in the reality of today.

cheers Guido

tom Carter

Social climber

May 15, 2011 - 03:40pm PT

Lot of stuff happens in those Parking lots.....

Tobia

Social climber

Aug 21, 2011 - 01:18am PT

Werner
My family had a LeMans identical to yours; well identical when new as I doubt it we ever lived in it.

Sierra Ledge Rat

Mountain climber

Appalachia

Aug 21, 2011 - 08:58am PT

Camp 4 parking lot in the late 1970s and 1980

mastadon

Trad climber

crack addict

Aug 21, 2011 - 04:48pm PT

Mr Tobia Sir,

That first shot of Bill Fry is great. Haven't talked to him in a long time....

That second shot, the one of you and Pinky, must have been taken when I was rebuilding the differential on Bill Fry's truck behind the Gassineering Station in Tuolumne. There's plastic over the differential and at the ends of the axles. Bill's truck had a big horsepower Corvette 327 and he managed to snap the pinion gear.

Great shots. Keep 'em coming!

Russ Walling

Gym climber

Poofter's Froth, Wyoming

Aug 21, 2011 - 06:20pm PT

Sierra Ledge Rat: Great pics, but Young Chu never owned FiveTen. I'd fix that one pretty quick.

Mike Bolte

Trad climber

Planet Earth

Aug 21, 2011 - 06:34pm PT

Young Chu (left), former owner of Five Ten

bit of hornet nest poking there

EDIT: I see Russ beat me to it

Tobia

Social climber

Aug 21, 2011 - 07:03pm PT

Mr. Mastadon,

You are correct. If you remember Bill asked me to help him, which led me to you since we pulled your VW engine out somewhere near that parking lot.

We had to go to Bishop to get parts for your VW. We used my camper (red toyota) to haul parts. Do you remember what happened with the VW the first time we put the engine in?

Bill let me have sleeping rights in the truck while he was in the TMCC.
That is KB's rig parked next to Bill's truck in Curry Village lot.
I had a picture of your Dodge camper but I can't find it.
I talked to Bill not to long ago. He is in Carson City.

That is Brossman's truck in the background.
Road trip to another parking lot... Ask Nita why she is holding the women's room sign.

Tobia

Social climber

Aug 21, 2011 - 07:28pm PT

YPCC warehouse parking lot (no one thought I could drive it). 1978

Pinky with Brossman's daughter behind TMCC

Tobia

Social climber

Aug 21, 2011 - 07:55pm PT

Sierra Ledge Rat:
Who's gold volvo? Cool ride and would be nice to have now.

mastadon

Trad climber

crack addict

Aug 21, 2011 - 08:24pm PT

Tobia-what happened the first time we put the engine in??

Tobia

Social climber

Aug 21, 2011 - 08:33pm PT

We (you I should say because I merely lifted when you said lift) had to pull it out and put it back in because the distributor was reversed. You realized it as soon as you cranked it. I can't remember what was wrong originally, I know we toted some parts to a machine shop in Bishop.

VW's pesky little critters. When dredging for gold we used a VW engine to drive the pump. Is dredging still banned in California?

Wasn't that a 59 VW? It had the little flags for turn indicators. It was red. I have a picture that Jane took of us sitting around it trying to get the motor out I think. Seems like it was on the other side of the building by the propane tank.

Still got the Dodge?

mastadon

Trad climber

crack addict

Aug 21, 2011 - 10:32pm PT

That VW was one I bought from Terry Counts (who's in two of your pictures above with Nita) with a bad engine. It was a 1960 European model with the turn signal semaphores that flopped down when the turn signals were activated. I ended up giving it back to her many years later after she married Pete Minks and was living in Tahoe City. Don't know what ever happened to it.

Haven't had the Dodge since the early 80's.

Tobia

Social climber

Aug 21, 2011 - 10:39pm PT

I was trying to remember Terry's last name. It was right on the tip of my tongue. All of the pictures of Terry & Nita are in Death Valley.
I met Minks once when he was hanging out in the Meadows. Mike White had a particularly funny name he called him to get his attention.
I still don't know why the VW didn't run right the way you had it in originally.
Did that spark your memory?