Getting ready for Dubtoberfest

Craig is preparing for an audit at work, so I'm staying out of his hair this weekend by going to Dubtoberfest up in Washington. I'm not driving a VW, but since everyone else in the club was getting their VWs ready for the drive, we decided to work on ours today too.

We put one of the cabinets and the z-bed in. It was a little depressing at first as we had to remove the seats and the carpet that we had just installed, but I was really excited once we were done. (You'd never guess it, but yellow is my favorite color.)

Trip to the Bug Ranch

We got BB’s interior all put together just in time for us to change our minds and decide to make her a camper. So…I guess we’ll be taking those seats back out after all.

We recently acquired this:

(and all of the other pertinent pieces of the bottom end of a 1600 dual port) and are planning to have it machined and bored and all of the other things of which I only partially understand the definitions that involve making this a happy, smooth, 1776 (or 1835, or 1915 we haven’t totally agreed 100% yet) engine. We’ve also got most of the top end sitting in a very unsightly pile of VW parts in the corner of our garage. Since it will take several weeks to get the engine ready to be put back together, we figured that we might as well get going (again) on the interior in the meantime.

We took yesterday afternoon off and made a trip to the Bug Ranch. After hopping in a truck (which incidentally had a shovel in the bed) in the middle of the desert, not a VW (or anything else) in sight, with a rather, how shall I say this…eccentric gentleman, I was quite relieved when we actually arrived at the junkyard and saw that we were going to be able to take home quite a few useful parts and pieces. Rick--the owner of the Bug Ranch turned out to be very accommodating and helpful and we were glad to have made the trip.

We strapped our new pop top onto the top of Jasmine and filled her up with almost everything we need to get BB camper worthy again.

As you can see, the “clean” side of our garage is taking a hiatus from its traditional function.