Hey there again faithful reader(s) we're back after our cross country move from Tampa, Florida to Port Townsend, Washington. Yeah, corner to cover. About 4,000 miles give or take.
We actually brought the Samba out last September in an enclosed car hauler and she's been in storage until a week ago. Amazingly she cranked right up after sitting for almost 7 months.
I got the low down from the on-line Samba community www.samba.com for a good mechanic up here. John at Vintage VW in Port Orchard did great work replacing the shifting bushings and shift link pin for 350 smackers.
Getting it to him was interesting as she was stuck in third, but disassembly of the shift mechanism and some pushing and prodding got the bus into first so we could get it up on the two dolly. Fun, fun.
The adjustments and rebuild of the shifter did the trick though and the bus is now a pleasure to drive. In fact here in our fine new town she's all we need to get around and has become our daily driver.
We're now in the process of finding a wood worker and seamstress to design and manufacture a booth for the local farmer's market that uses the VW as it's framework.
Melissa is also working to design some distressed aged graphics which we'll apply to the bus to promote our organic, local & sustainable produce and prepared foods booth at the market.
I'll post a picture as soon as I find one that illustrates what I'm talking about shortly.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
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