Hobbies?

[Shoyrtt]

The wife tends to roll her eyes at most of my other hobbies. Surprisingly she has been fairly supportive of my air cooled VW addiction. We built a Thing and a Baja Bug with our twin boys a few years ago. The current project is a 59 Kombi. Hobby #2 is long distance cycling. She doesn’t mind the cycling part but questions the collection of bikes in the garage that seems to increase over time (maybe 6 at the moment). Hobby #3 is her least favorite, off road racing. Lots of long hours prepping and something always seems to break. 130 in the desert is quite the adrenaline rush.

 

[M Prod]

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The wife tends to roll her eyes at most of my other hobbies. Surprisingly she has been fairly supportive of my air cooled VW addiction. We built a Thing and a Baja Bug with our twin boys a few years ago. The current project is a 59 Kombi. Hobby #2 is long distance cycling. She doesn’t mind the cycling part but questions the collection of bikes in the garage that seems to increase over time (maybe 6 at the moment). Hobby #3 is her least favorite, off road racing. Lots of long hours prepping and something always seems to break. 130 in the desert is quite the adrenaline rush.

Nice Bikes! I also do a lot of riding as well ..both long distance road and mountain. I was going to the Gran Fondo from Vancouver to Whistler this year (about 100 miles mostly uphill) but that didn’t work out.

Aside from that, photography, drones, editing, and the never ending boat project(s). I also write from time to time.

This is our family Christmas photo which I shot in our basement last week:

 

[Henry Boyd]

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The wife tends to roll her eyes at most of my other hobbies. Surprisingly she has been fairly supportive of my air cooled VW addiction. We built a Thing and a Baja Bug with our twin boys a few years ago. The current project is a 59 Kombi. Hobby #2 is long distance cycling. She doesn’t mind the cycling part but questions the collection of bikes in the garage that seems to increase over time (maybe 6 at the moment). Hobby #3 is her least favorite, off road racing. Lots of long hours prepping and something always seems to break. 130 in the desert is quite the adrenaline rush.

I had one of those buses. 36 horse as I recall. It also had a gasoline cabin heater, kind of like the kerosene ones you see now, but with gasoline. Fortunately, the damn thing never worked.

I got the bus cheap because it had a blown motor. A buddy and I then swapped the motor out in our dorm parking lot using the vw jack and wooden blocks. Between the two of us I think we had two crescent wrenches, a couple pliers, and screw drivers as our tool kit. I used an uncounted tire across my chest when we pulled the engine out to cushion the drop. We put the replacement back by bench pressing it. One of us held it in place while the other put the four bell housing nuts on.

There was also a fantastic vw book, wish I could remember the title. It was printed with a spiral binding and full of helpful hints for the day, like reminding users to tie their hair back before leaning over a running engine (it was 1969 after all).

 

[OllieC]

I got the bus cheap because it had a blown motor. A buddy and I then swapped the motor out in our dorm parking lot using the vw jack and wooden blocks. Between the two of us I think we had two crescent wrenches, a couple pliers, and screw drivers as our tool kit. I used an uncounted tire across my chest when we pulled the engine out to cushion the drop. We put the replacement back by bench pressing it. One of us held it in place while the other put the four bell housing nuts on.

There was also a fantastic vw book, wish I could remember the title. It was printed with a spiral binding and full of helpful hints for the day, like reminding users to tie their hair back before leaning over a running engine (it was 1969 after all).

I had a 72 Bug with a 1600. I could pull the motor in 15 minutes. After the heater box, it's 4 bolts. Love VW's of yesteryear.

edit: Current hobbies are our boat which I continually update/upgrade, and updating our home so we can move out of the city to hopefully a lake home.

 

[Kwik]

Spend a lot of time in the winter competing with SeaNile for the top 20 worst guitar players club. The motorcycles don't get winterized. So, any sunny day over 50f, I get one of them out for a quick trip. Too old to get the cold weather gear out anymore. I also do some first/third person shooting gaming on xbox. Looking to buy a house I can put my woodshop back together in. Hopefully this spring before boating season.

 

[Shoyrtt]

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There was also a fantastic vw book, wish I could remember the title. It was printed with a spiral binding and full of helpful hints for the day, like reminding users to tie their hair back before leaning over a running engine (it was 1969 after all).

You probably had the John Muir book. My Dad bought the book for me when I got my first car, a 66 Bug for $600 in 1983 when I was 15. The car was stuck in second gear. He told me to read the entire book, cover to cover, before I started to work on it. It was great advice.

 

[Henry Boyd]

You probably had the John Muir book. My Dad bought the book for me when I got my first car, a 66 Bug for $600 in 1983 when I was 15. The car was stuck in second gear. He told me to read the entire book, cover to cover, before I started to work on it. It was great advice. View attachment 96399

That’s the book. Stuck in second gear? The gear selectors were rods with a notch cut in them. The shifter linkage end was shaped like a “L” where the foot engaged the notch. The shifter then pulled/pushed the selector rod to change the gears. If you tried to go into third too hard the foot of the L would pop out of the notch leaving the transmission stuck in second. In my case alcohol was also usually involved.

 

[Shoyrtt]

...In my case alcohol was also usually involved.

Very impressed with your memory Mr. Boyd, especially with alcohol involved. The very young kid, read that book, yanked the engine and swing axle, popped the nose cone, got the fork correct, put it back together and drove it over to the seller’s house the next day. The seller thought the trans was junk.

 

[Nater Potater]

I still have that same book that my wife's grandfather gave to me when we got the '67 Bus. The bus and Grandpa are gone, but I keep the book.

 

[WV 320 Dancer]

I'm 36 years in Industrial sales but on the manufacturing side selling cutting tools. Got one more year left...

And Nice Ride!

Who’s cutting tools??

 

[Steve S]

Was almost 20 with Greenfield / Widia. Now I am the National Sales Manager for Regal Cutting Tools. Spent time with Weldon/Fastcut/Brubaker and YMW taps early on