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Andy, Glad you had a great time and I was a small part of it. Come back out when you have more time.

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Hey Andy how ya liking the burb? still diggin it?

Man you need to relax for abit if your just now gettin ti sit for a few minutes!!!!


Frank

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Dude.. you were JUST as much a part of it as everyone else. I would love to come out there again... you got a nice 2 wheel drive blazer for cheap? :metal:

yeah... I'm still diggin it!
I know i need to relax... I got WAY too many things goin on.

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Andy,

I just want to say thanks for sharing your experience of drivin' da Burb cross country. It was a real treat reading each new post ( along with accompanying pictures, even!). What a great time you had getting to meet all the board members you spent time with. You certainly have a gift for storytelling.

What I want to know is, how did you ever manage to make it back to Ohio with all the Dew and Red Bull you drank. I would've had to stop for a "pee" break every other rest area.

BTW: Brad, if you can read this, that is, if you have access to a computer....
I must say, Frankentruck is lookin' as cool as ever!:metal:

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LOL!!!
Well, I normally made a stop every 100 to 200 miles. Which, is about as often as I stopped for fuel.

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great trip Andy, glad it worked out for you and that you beat "Murphy's Law"

however...........:rolleyes:

you talked about the numerous hotties..........:hm:


where are those pics........:cool:

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:agree::D

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X3 :b69:

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I was too buisy to take pics of them.
And I'm not postin pics of my hottie.

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ahh, come on man, that's just not right. :drama:

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A man, a mission, a long stretch of road, and a "cruisemobile"......sounds like heaven to me!

Buck a gallon fuel would've made it orgasmic!

I second the hottie pics!!!

Thanks for sharing your trip....too cool.

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Very cool! Good luck with the build.

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These 2 pics are definatly Wyoming. I drive that road every day to my job site. In the first pic, you can just make out the wind turbines that are being installed along the horizon. These hills are the legendary 'sisters'. When I-80 closes due to snow, this is where it closes first. I am not looking forward to driving this road this winter.

I wish I had been paying attention to your road trip sooner, about an hour before you took these pics, you were about 5 miles from my well-equiped shop. 15 minutes later, you were passing the town I'm working in.

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Awesome... now I know where I was! :haha: Thanks.
Yeah, I put out a few threads on my trip plans before I went.. but didn't get many numbers on this revised route. The original route I had gotten a butt load of contacts, but only a few on this more southern route.

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Hey Brad n Andy...jes a little meddlin with Brad's truck... (sorry CG)...:hm:


Originally Posted by Bishops Trucks
Can sombody photo shop that ford out of the picture. I like that pic, it's pretty cool....
...and CG's comment...
Original reply by CG
Hey now, that Ford has drug home many a Chevy truck for me. Unfortunately its time has passed and it awaits a trip to the scrap yard. He gave his last breath for one of our trucks
Hey Brad! As I write this you're probably still in an airplane! Have fun, be safe and come back to us soon!

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yep, I spoke to brad last night too... he probably is still in flight. Can't wait to hear from him... my trip was nothing compaired to his.

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Awesome recount of the trip. LH if you think CO is pretty you'd have been in heaven on the original route. Spokane WA to Missoula MT is one of the most scenic stretches of Freeway I've ever driven. The veterans memorial bridge in C'dA is a nice one to see. It was a bummer when plans changed to the southerly route but all in all it looks like great trip. Enjoy the burb.
Josh B.

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there was a LOT more for me on the southern route. :D

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:cong: Andy, You and the Burb made it. That was a great story. It's great how these trucks bring us together. Oh, I had to put Brad's truck on my desktop too, because that's a good looking truck. Nice truck Brad. I will use the photo shopped one for a bit... if you don't mind. Oh, Be safe Brad.

Great story Andy!!:metal:

This stuff is awsome!

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PM me your e-mail addy, and I'll send you a high-res photo of his truck... makes a better wall paper.

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For a second I thought you were talking about your noggin :lol:


Just got through reading this thread - what a great time you had - glad it went so trouble free! Burg looks to be really nice - congrats on it and the great voyage.

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t/y jack... it was the trip of a life time!

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Andy, I only paid $3.00 for my cooler...so HA! You know, you could have applied those stickers after you stole it though!! Maybe you came through here after all, and didn't tell me!! (I wish you would have stolen the 68 instead).

BTW, Chuck Taylors rock!

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I'd love to have a 68 short step to add to the fleet... I'll trade you a real cool cooler, and a slightly worn pair of chuck taylors!

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I have a 68 short step Ive been thinking about getting rid of...you have an interest? We need a reason for another get together =)

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LOL!!!
Plenty of interest... lack of fundage!
I want your son's burb thrown into the deal if i go clear out there again!

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lol just read the build andy looks like an awesome experience any idea on how many miles you put on the burb doing the whole trip and about how much did you spend in fuel?! or do you even want to think about that?! lol! :) thanks for a great story!

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Thanks for telling the burb story. Hope to get to see it and meet you at the board meet in 08. Keep on rockin

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2800 or so miles gas was somewhere around 500 - 600 bucks IIRC.

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Great write up Longhorn Man! I trust next time someone drives out west, I'll be contacted ahead of time and will be able to join in on the fun..:rolleyes:

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lol, i dunno how you missed it! it was all over the board. Either way... it was awesome, and if you ever get the chance to join in on a board gathering... even if its just a work party... do it. You'll never forget it.

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What size shoe do you wear Andy? I'm a 13 wide. Although I do have two pairs of Converse shoes that are 13Rs that fit fine...so I went ahead and ordered a pair of Chucks last night :D Almost ordered a set of custom ones off their site, but they were too spendy.

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Sounds like you had a blast on that trip....glad everything worked out well for you getting back home. Traveling around in these old trucks is a blast.

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10R TJ... I gues the trade is off then. :(

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That is so cool.

I can't see myself ever pulling something like that off not unless I had all of those guys from the Verizon comercials following me.

How much did you know about the Burb before you made the decision to drive it home?
I can probably answer that myself;
"it starts, moves forward under it's own power and is only 3000 miles from my drivway? dude I'm on my way!!!

:metal:

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well, another board member did go and look it over, and verified that it was a decent truck... CG did send me about 15 hi-res photos that i scrutinized very carefully, plus he and I spoke about it a few times on the phone.
In all reality, I didn't have enough info to do something like this... but I went over it a little before leaving, and I got a good vibe. I did have a somewhat of a back up plan to get home without the burb... but I had every intention of buying it.
CG was kinda nervouse about the trip... I think more so than I was. But, as we all know, it all ended up good in the end. He's happy, I'm real happy, and everyone had a good time.
Plus now i have a sweet ass burb. ;)

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I guess the main thing is you went into it with the right attitude.

I can't really say much since I drove from Dallas to Northern Va (DC area) in a 91 Mercedes 560sel that I had for less than 6 mos, and 5 of those it was broke down because the crank pulley and balancer fell of the engine.
The balancer actually split at the grove for the woodruff key and spun on the crank until it worked it's way off the crank. BIG FUN!

The biggest thing I was worried about was I never knew what caused it to do that.

Seeing your pic and everything I wish I would of taken more pictures, but at the same time I did the iron man thing and drove straight through, stopping for gas, a red bull and and water.

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yep... you gotta live a little once in a while.
Some would call this stupid
Some would say it's nothing at all.
Some say ballsey.



I say a combination of the first and the third.

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Some (Me) would say thanks for going on this adventure, You allowed me to go on a adveture with out leaving My computer. More importantly by you doing this adventure I dont have the itch quite as bad to by a car or truck off of ebay or craigslist or here and drive it cross country. The wife and I both thank you Andy.

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honestly... It was reading about these trips that helpped egg me on!
Would that be dislexic thinking then?