Re: [T3] Hey Greg, how'd you like Bug-O-Rama?

[Greg Merritt <gregm@vwtype3.org>]

<x-flowed>At 10:14 PM -0700 5/26/02, Hal Sullivan wrote:
> Funny that we didn't manage to run into each other -- I saw you
> wandering around, I saw your car, I even saw you go by on the


	Haha -- say "hello" next time. :)


> freeway this afternoon just past Davis (I was following a line of
> bugs and T2's in the right-hand lane).


	I saw those VWs -- the last in the line was the white Beetle, 
I believe.  You must have been driving a non-VW, then?

	I got up early yesterday and rolled into the show by about 
7:30 or so.  At the end of the day, one of the Risky Business 
Showgirls (haha, no joke) handed me the second place stock Type III 
plaque.  There was no 3rd place. ;)  Funny -- there was a stock notch 
and a stock 34; maybe the 34 was entered in the KG class?

	Everett showed me how to mount the chrome exhaust tip that 
I've had for years.  It's the kind with the mounting bracket and 
screws.  I had assumed that the little bracket piece needed to be 
mounted inside of the exhaust tip, and that the piece I have belonged 
on a later larger exhaust.  Well, Everett showed me how the bracket 
ends up between the chrome cover and the exhaust tip.  I had it on 
the car in a couple of minutes.  Thanks, Everett!


> I managed to pick up a T3
> dual-carb aircleaner and a pair of H4's...


	Oh, man -- was that swap meet something else, if due only to 
sheer volume.  I think I made at least four full passes, which I'm 
sure made for several miles of walking.

	I heard a couple of really interesting comments about the 
swap meet, and I heard similarly-themed comments repeated several 
times by different people.  The first theme went like this:

	<swap_shopper> Joe! How's the swap going?
	<swap_seller> Real slow -- I've hardly sold anything.

Here's the second theme:

	<carshow_person_1> Did you go through the swap meet?
	<carshow_person_1> Yeah, nothing but crap!

Is this somehow a sign of the economy?  Were people dragging out 
loads of odds and ends, trying to convert to cash?  Or maybe the 
"good stuff" is just becoming more rare.  Anyway, I took these as 
signals to aim really, really low in my bidding. :)

	I think I made out pretty well -- actually, I'm almost 
embarrassed.  For a grand total of a lucky $88, I brought home...

	o 1 set late Beetle pop-out windows w/ latches and threaded 
mounting plates
	o 1 set new WCM Beetle pop-out rubber
	o 2 used but serviceable Type 3 mufflers, from small heat 
exchangers to exhaust tip.  One muffler had heater boxes that I 
unscrewed by hand!
	o 2 used damper/tip sets
	o 1 NOS exhaust damper
	o 1 new damper/tip clamp with bolt
	o 1 '70s shifter w/ accessory chrome sleeve and Wolfsburg 
shift knob, as seen in accessory brochures
	o 1 shifter w/ a different wooden shift knob (my daughter 
wants a wooden shift knob for the Beetle)
	o 2 new repop window cranks
	o 1 Beetle accessory wooden dash cover w/ speaker fabric, to 
replace my missing speaker fabric
	o 1 horn button
	o 1 bus mirror, 1 bus reflector, 1 bus rear side light

Several of these bits were free, ditched by departing swappers who 
apparently didn't find it worth their trouble to take these parts 
with them.  Ditched parts included upright fan housings, a set of bus 
chrome, a drum-to-drum front end, bus seats, the bus mirror and 
reflectors, rough Beetle sheet metal, random upright tin pieces... 
and I didn't stay until the end.  Very strange.

-Greg

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