Monday after I delivered the buses to the port I hit the road east… straight to death dry Nevada
I made a short stop over at my friends Gary’s place in Sonoma California…
The trusty white whale performed flawless as always…
Gary was hit hard by the fires in Sonoma, Napa and santa Rosa area… lost a couple of cabins in the mountains and a load of VW parts… he saved these as a souvenir, this “used to be” a “pile” of 36 Hp cilinderheads, melted to the ground…
One of Gary’s customers had his vanagon in for service, I liked his license plate a lot…
… For You To Go 75 (Mph) … not bad on a slow VW bus!
From Gary I drove straight (and mainly in dark) to Reno Nevada… to see the skyline of Reno in morning light
Nice… Nevada, rural as it can be … let the next VW hunt start here…
Where I was think I’m going?
ok, hope fully its worth it… rural track straight to?
…. my friend Mitch home…. to check out his nice line up of buses!
and from there to Reno Stead airport…
Was the white whale gonna want to flying? Shall we build wings on it?
Do You recognise this control tower? changes are larger as You can think off, as this is THE world-famous tower out of the movie Top Gun!!
ok enough talks, time to take my friend Mitch to lunch… sandwich anybody? you bet!
Inside is beautiful and full of decoration…
and the sandwich was … well … great!!!!
more buses? well done! this is the bus from the infamous tomTom junkyard in Utah… Almost empty now, Mitch saved this bus!
ok, time to hit the road again… nice drive on Highway 95 south… unfortunately (again) it was dark most of the way…. but… I experienced an unforgettable Sunrise…
so… welcome back to California, for my next adventure…. stay tuned!
yesterday we drove with 4 trailers to the port to deliver the “catch of the weekend” to the shipper…
was a real cool view on the freeway!
Still in California, I had an appointment at a serious backyard last weekend…
Thanks to my friends Ray and Tom I could buy several project buses and cut up some other VW’s.
The result you see here below! The first load ready to go to the port!
There was all kind of crazy stuff all over the yard…
When I say really crazy stuff I mean really crazy stuff!
So we part out all kind of things we thought we could use…
and went through all piles of parts…
check out what was laying around!
Sunday morning we went back but first needed a healthy breakfast…
second load was ready!
Watch out for the tarantula’s!!! (yes this was a real one!!)
With a little help from my friends is a song from the beetles I sing many times, including last weekend!! These are the guys that made it possible for me to get this, and they helped full-time to cut, load, change tyres and stuff!
Ray, Tom and Pete, You’re the guys! Thank you so much for this ubercool weekend!!
and I’m on my way for more now! …:) but first we have to drive these to the shippers!
Type 1 model
Type 2 model t1
Bus Brasil
Bus T2a
Bus T2b
Type 2 model t25
Type watercooled
Bus T4
Type 1 model Ghia
Karmann Ghia 34
Type 3 model
Type 4 model
Type 181
Porsche
Golf
AA performance
AMC
Ate
Auto Craft
BBT Original
Produced by BBT
Bugpack
Buttys bits
CB performance
Engle
Febi
Flat 4
IGP
Kolbenschmidt
Mahle
OCAP
OMC
Provided by BBT
BBT Quality
Sale
Rancho
Rhibo
Silver Weld Through
Silverline
Sintermetal
Scat
TRW
Vintage Speed
VW Sunroofs
Wolfsburg West