Tag: sambasaurus
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hmmm…
i spent the day trying to get the studio back into some sort of shape and throwing away all sorts of old garbage that’s been in boxes since we moved back into the country… getting somewhere i guess. ollie dwyer came over late in the evening and we chatted about his new project. his first…
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out with the old in with the new
finally sorted through some of the images from the trip up north last week to take the bus to taylor machine. so out with the old and in with the new
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splitscreen flight sim…
i’ve been looking around for a cheap windows laptop to monitor the new engine management system on the bus… should be a giggle, enough to keep me out of trouble anyhow. if i run a serial extension cable from the main ECU in the engine bay up into the cab i can drive along with…
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off to bugjam
and it’s raining, a lot. i can hear the lorries swishing up and down the road through the puddles. pack the bus, get paul botch to finish the welding on the 412, pull the enginein the bus, strip it, rebuild it, do a four wheel alignment and rework the interior. have a bath , then…
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blessed be.
today is a bit of am odd day. paul venners – of the commentating, ‘botch boys – team botch- fame- is round for a few days doing the welding that needs to be done on the 412. he’s tapping and welding and grimnding away. my boy louie came back from school yesterday and walked through…
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fugly has found a home
here it is nestled between the trees next to the samba. had a quick look over it in the cold light of day and it appears top be very solid. there’s a variety of electrical mayhem going on and lots to be refitted but hopefully this will be straightforward. it also appears to be pretty…
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4.1 litres of aircooled power!
after an early start i decide to keep the single quiet pack exhaust on the bus rather than swap it back to the magnaflow muffler as i had intended. no real reson, just lazy i guess… ..off to the bank and sneak out with a big manilla envelope and off to portsmouth to the funkenblitz…
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gti festival of the apes
the infamous captain botch does some friendly welding for stretch and the ‘welsh contingent’. unfortunately all the safety gear to hand are gardening gloves and his stage wig and sunglasses from his part time job as pole dancer with jensen d groovers cash wash 70’s disco show. it’s wrong, it’s just plain wrong – and…
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off up north again!
it’s friday and i’ve been invited by adele who races ‘striptease’ in vwdrc to show the bus in a lineup of race cars at the deva dubs show in chester… i load up the bus with beer, loads of fruit, flyers, stickers, some t shirts and enough computer and camera gear to sink a battleship……
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and they’re off ! running to the sun
after a rush to get people to the station i’m off in the bus, heading south, although i’m going to a gallery preview in dartmouth i’m still in with the general flow of traffic heading to run to the sun in newquay. i trundle through the outskirts of bristol heading for the M5 with the…