Where Is Everybody?

On Dec 30 2010, 6:28 pm, "Joey Tribiani" >
wrote:
> "John J Stafford" wrote in ...
>
> >Still here after all the years.
> >I'm a little pre-occupied with employment issues: specifically,
> >preparing for retirement - which frankly is freaking me out.
>
> don't freak over it....it's the reward for working hard all those years...
> my dad called me today....told him I was at work, he told me he hates I have
> to work for a living, I should try retirement like him! I'll get my turn,
> not as early as he did(he retired at 54), but I look forward to II

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> On Dec 30 2010, 6:28 pm, "Joey Tribiani" >
> wrote:
> > "John J Stafford" wrote in
> > ...
> >
> > >Still here after all the years.
> > >I'm a little pre-occupied with employment issues: specifically,
> > >preparing for retirement - which frankly is freaking me out.
> >
> > don't freak over it....it's the reward for working hard all those years...
> > my dad called me today....told him I was at work, he told me he hates I
> > have
> > to work for a living, I should try retirement like him! I'll get my turn,
> > not as early as he did(he retired at 54), but I look forward to II

With respect, my reward for paying into Medicare for over fifty-years is
to have a heart attack (another yesterday) and my only recourse is a
fifty-cent bottle of nitro.

I've written this before, but repeating it is necessary for the sake of
the rest.

The USA medical system has been hijacked.

I remember those days too. Remember when the New Years Eve Ramva
Chatroom was full all day.

On Dec 18 2010, 9:34*pm, Jan Andersson > wrote:
> On 12/18/2010 2:37 PM, Randall wrote:
>
>
>
> > That's what I'd like to know.
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzaPGWOutWQ&NR=1
>
> I remember when this group was so busy you had to read it several times
> a day to keep up with all the simultaneous conversations...
>
> I miss those days, and my friends here.

Remember when we all worked together to create a RAMVA T-Shirt?

Three were made. I cannot remember who got them.

On Dec 18 2010, 8:42*am, Jim Ed > wrote:
> Has this group almost died or is everyone busy with something else?

I posted a couple of times when I was fixing up my '73 Super. The main
effort was about twelve years ago, with a few projects four or five
years ago. Since then, I have been driving it. All the time.

The next big project will be paint and body, although it is now fully
functional and not at all ugly. So, that project can wait for a
while.

I love RAMVA. As soon as I start working on the Super again, I'll come
up with something to post again.

I did put in an EMPI front disc brake conversion a few months ago, but
that was really quick and simple. We have very good braking authority,
now.

I will always consult the archives for RAMVA on Google. Just about
every question has been answered twice over. Maybe that's the problem.
Since it is all archived on Google, you don't have so much traffic
with people asking the same questions over and over.

Mike.
Portland, Oregon.
'73 Super.

On 18/12/10 18:42, Jim Ed wrote:
> Has this group almost died or is everyone busy with something else?

Waiting for the spring: Cars are in winter storage and owner in survival
-mode until it begins to be a more than 10C/50F at daytime in spring.

There's an interesting project though, waiting for the spring. I think I
announced it some time ago (last summer?) but saying it twice isn't too
harmful.

For summer (next and who knows how many) there's the t34, there's a lot to
do in it.

So: I bought a VW industrial engine powered aggregate 1957 model, sold the
aggregate, but kept the engine.

200 hours in usage counter, practically a NOS engine as the aggregate
uses only 19hp in constant 1500rpm.

Well kept and regularly serviced as aggregate was owned by Swedish army,
they do take care of their stuff.

I also happen to have most of the parts from 1960 Beetle engine, so I can
convert the industrial engine into car engine.

I'd think that a almost genuine '57 engine would be worth something, even if
tinware and some accessories are from '60 -model: there shouldn't be many
noticeable errors in period correctness. Except the colour: engine is army
green.

Some pictures:
http://www.fvwa.fi/galleria/category/234

Winter storage, group pictu
http://www.fvwa.fi/images/rsgallery/...020390.JPG.jpg

More story for all three:
http://kharon.suomiforum.com/www/index_e.html
(Currently mostly in Finnish like the main page, translation proceeds again
some day.)

Tuomas
--
Tuomas - VWs:'63 typ14, '65 typ34 & '61 typ2

I have decided to sell all the ACVW stuff. Three cars, and lots of
parts. I haven't the energy to work on them, and possibly not the time.
Had another heart attack last Friday. Bummer.

The '72 needs some work to get running again - maybe just an ignition
circuit fix. The '58 has me stumped. Runs on only two cylinders all of a
sudden. The Bradley GTII is backfiring all the time and has since the
day I got the engine, but it gets worse and worse all the time. I have
$10,000 into that engine. Someone will get a hell of a deal.

I'm also selling some camera equipment. All classic film stuff, for
example two consecutively serial numbered Leica M4s, a museum quality
Century One 8x10, and sod-forth. Any photo enthusiasts out there?

Happy Winter.

John

On Jan 3, 8:42*pm, John J Stafford > wrote:
> Remember when we all worked together to create a RAMVA T-Shirt?
>
> Three were made. I cannot remember who got them.

I have a RAMVA t-shirt, and I'm pretty sure John Willis ended up with
one too.

Hard to believe that was 10 years ago...

On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:42:21 -0600, John J Stafford
> scribbled this interesting note:

>
>Remember when we all worked together to create a RAMVA T-Shirt?
>
>Three were made. I cannot remember who got them.


One is hanging in my closet. I did the font.


--
John Willis

(Remove the Primes before e-mailing me)

In article >,
John Willis > wrote:

> On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:42:21 -0600, John J Stafford
> > scribbled this interesting note:
>
> >
> >Remember when we all worked together to create a RAMVA T-Shirt?
> >
> >Three were made. I cannot remember who got them.
>
>
> One is hanging in my closet. I did the font.

You did? Got a picture of it?