The best photo location in #ninove #type34
Like the bus content, but do love those T3 Ghias!
My 1967 VW Camper
This blog is dedicated to my daily driver, a 1967 VW Camper. It's a conversion done by Riviera Motors in Oregon back in the 60s. I'll update this with pictures, video, and stories of the work I do to it and the adventures I have in it.
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April72013
February82013
Hanging out one last time. #vw #volkswagen #bus #type3 #notchback
August172012
Like a bunch of Hot Wheels…really awesome Hot Wheels!
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April82012
Sassy & the Bus. (Taken with instagram)
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January312012
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, people! Over 50 new followers in the past day!? Where are you all coming from!?
Just as a hello, here’s a shot of my bus from inside the wife’s 1964 Notchback from last night!
January192012
Finally brought the wife’s Notchback over to Livermore today. Stopped for a photoshoot on Sheridan Road.
October32011
Parked by Amber’s Notchback tonight.
May312011
Such a sexy Notchback! Gotta get the scripts and license plate light on Amber’s ‘64 and find those flat tail lights!
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May22011
Carb Saga Update
You likely saw that last weekend, I finished rebuilding both 32PDSIT carburetors I bought off The Samba a couple months ago. They’re a million times cleaner than they were thanks to Cobey giving them a major soak in pure Simple Green. Night and Day!
I sourced a pair of rebuild kits from Peninsula Automotive in Campbell and had a good experience putting everything back together properly. It also helps me understand more how a carburetor works in the first place, so that’s never a bad thing!
Now, one of the carbs has a couple pieces that looked bent, but I didn’t have anything to compare it to…until Kelley Park when I scored a whole second set of carbs and a bunch of other parts! Yup, those bent parts definitely should NOT be like that. So I’ll swap those bits out and call it a day. No biggie, but it sadly lessens what I could get for those carbs when I go to sell ‘em.
I also recently scored an entire bin of Type 3 parts from my friend Aldo. Some of it I can use with the wife’s Notchback, some I’m just going to sell. But it looked at first like all the linkage arms I needed were in there. Rather, one arm is there. Hey, that’s something! That’s one more than I had before!
Now I just need to find the other. And oddly, there’s a Samba ad for some T3 linkage arms…from a seller in Redwood City, CA. Yeah. I work in Redwood City. If he’s got what I need, I’m not sure I could have worked it out any better!
May12011
Rebuilt both Type 3 carbs while hanging with Cobey & Fox at a swim meet. I guess few people reassemble carbs at swim meets. We drew more than a few looks & questions!
April282011
Panorama shot from the Firehouse at Kelley Park. April 17, 2011.
April202011
Artsy shot of Amber’s Notchback from last weekend.
April182011
My Kickass Parts Score
So you all know I’ve been going on about rebuilding these 32PDSIT Type 3 carbs to run on the bus this summer. I knew I needed to locate the linkage arms and some rebuild kits, but I saw a couple of really clean (turns out, NOS) chokes in the swap meet at Kelley Park yesterday.
I inquire about buying the chokes and the guy really kinda wants to sell all the Type 3 carb stuff together (read: two whole carbs, dual port manifolds, extra throttle bodies, at least 3 chokes, some linkage bits but no arms, and probably some other stuff).
Oh. Well, what do you want for that, I ask (expecting, like, $100).
Thirty bucks, he says.
Money has never left my hand so quickly!
Now I have two whole sets of Type 3 carbs and spare parts coming out various orifices, but oddly still need linkage arms! Still, can’t beat that score!
April172011
Rolling through line at Kelley Park this morning. Lots more photos to come.
April162011
Washed & buffed for the show tomorrow!
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