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Re: This is gonna look BADASS...

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 20:21:04 -0400, Mike Romain
<romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>Cool.
>
>I was just giving you a heads up. I would be thinking on a flap with a
>manual choke cable open and closed for it.

Hey, that sounds like a cool weekend project. I like fabbing up stuff
like that.

>
>I like your Bug shots and remember you are the dude with the horse shoes
>up his butt... ;-) LOL!

hahaha! Yeah, that's me. Still trying to work out how to get a
patent on my "JEEP KICKSTAND" idea. (my leg) heh heh

>
>I had a 68 1500 3 speed semi automatic Bug that 'really' got me into off
>roading! Man the places that silly thing would go and got me into....
>And the electric clutch switch in the gear shift. That was a funny
>thing, I could rev it up and take my hand off the gear shift and it
>would just smoke out the G78-15's I has on the back.

Yeah, they call those things auto-sticks. Freaky. Never had one.
Had 3 bugs and one bus, but never an auto-stick. I was running 31"
truck tires on my baja with a 1200 cc stock motor. I'll bet I can
slip a clutch better than any of y'all. ;-) Can you imagine...? No
fancy gearing to get the RPMs up, it was all clutch slippage to get
that 40 hp 1.2 liter engine to spin those 31" tires right up the hill.
WHOO HOO! The smell of a burning clutch can be like a learned thing.
Smell of burning clutch = I'm having fun offroading right now! ;-)

>
>I got stuck once on the mud flats in the Minas Basin on the east coast
>with the highest tides in the world. I was almost 3 miles out and we
>had to hike to shore to get shovels to get us out.

If I ever add another baja to my offroad vehicle collection then you'd
better believe it'll have a good electric winch permanently mounted to
the front bumper. That's one thing I don't miss at all about my old
baja. The not having a winch worth a crap part. :-) Again, thanks
for the advice. See you on the trails someday.

"I can hammer it back into shape later."
:wq!

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Re: This is gonna look BADASS...

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 20:21:04 -0400, Mike Romain
<romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>Cool.
>
>I was just giving you a heads up. I would be thinking on a flap with a
>manual choke cable open and closed for it.

Hey, that sounds like a cool weekend project. I like fabbing up stuff
like that.

>
>I like your Bug shots and remember you are the dude with the horse shoes
>up his butt... ;-) LOL!

hahaha! Yeah, that's me. Still trying to work out how to get a
patent on my "JEEP KICKSTAND" idea. (my leg) heh heh

>
>I had a 68 1500 3 speed semi automatic Bug that 'really' got me into off
>roading! Man the places that silly thing would go and got me into....
>And the electric clutch switch in the gear shift. That was a funny
>thing, I could rev it up and take my hand off the gear shift and it
>would just smoke out the G78-15's I has on the back.

Yeah, they call those things auto-sticks. Freaky. Never had one.
Had 3 bugs and one bus, but never an auto-stick. I was running 31"
truck tires on my baja with a 1200 cc stock motor. I'll bet I can
slip a clutch better than any of y'all. ;-) Can you imagine...? No
fancy gearing to get the RPMs up, it was all clutch slippage to get
that 40 hp 1.2 liter engine to spin those 31" tires right up the hill.
WHOO HOO! The smell of a burning clutch can be like a learned thing.
Smell of burning clutch = I'm having fun offroading right now! ;-)

>
>I got stuck once on the mud flats in the Minas Basin on the east coast
>with the highest tides in the world. I was almost 3 miles out and we
>had to hike to shore to get shovels to get us out.

If I ever add another baja to my offroad vehicle collection then you'd
better believe it'll have a good electric winch permanently mounted to
the front bumper. That's one thing I don't miss at all about my old
baja. The not having a winch worth a crap part. :-) Again, thanks
for the advice. See you on the trails someday.

"I can hammer it back into shape later."
:wq!

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Re: This is gonna look BADASS...

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 20:21:04 -0400, Mike Romain
<romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>Cool.
>
>I was just giving you a heads up. I would be thinking on a flap with a
>manual choke cable open and closed for it.

Hey, that sounds like a cool weekend project. I like fabbing up stuff
like that.

>
>I like your Bug shots and remember you are the dude with the horse shoes
>up his butt... ;-) LOL!

hahaha! Yeah, that's me. Still trying to work out how to get a
patent on my "JEEP KICKSTAND" idea. (my leg) heh heh

>
>I had a 68 1500 3 speed semi automatic Bug that 'really' got me into off
>roading! Man the places that silly thing would go and got me into....
>And the electric clutch switch in the gear shift. That was a funny
>thing, I could rev it up and take my hand off the gear shift and it
>would just smoke out the G78-15's I has on the back.

Yeah, they call those things auto-sticks. Freaky. Never had one.
Had 3 bugs and one bus, but never an auto-stick. I was running 31"
truck tires on my baja with a 1200 cc stock motor. I'll bet I can
slip a clutch better than any of y'all. ;-) Can you imagine...? No
fancy gearing to get the RPMs up, it was all clutch slippage to get
that 40 hp 1.2 liter engine to spin those 31" tires right up the hill.
WHOO HOO! The smell of a burning clutch can be like a learned thing.
Smell of burning clutch = I'm having fun offroading right now! ;-)

>
>I got stuck once on the mud flats in the Minas Basin on the east coast
>with the highest tides in the world. I was almost 3 miles out and we
>had to hike to shore to get shovels to get us out.

If I ever add another baja to my offroad vehicle collection then you'd
better believe it'll have a good electric winch permanently mounted to
the front bumper. That's one thing I don't miss at all about my old
baja. The not having a winch worth a crap part. :-) Again, thanks
for the advice. See you on the trails someday.

"I can hammer it back into shape later."
:wq!

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