Jeeze Tony! You're a lot more fun when you're speculating abut your dream
engine.

Stan Wilder
83 Westfalia Air Cooled

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:06:33 -0600 "Smola, Tony" <TSmola@TRIBUNE.COM>
writes:
> I'd like to hear some stories from the list regarding wierd incidents
> while
> camping, surfing in Mexico and other strange places....could be
> anywhere?
>
> Here's one to get the van rolling:
>
> While on a surf trip to Cabo San Lucas......long drive.......don"t
> do it
> unless you're young and crazyand have good A/C...yeah
> right...nothing helps
> in August in a Van
>
> 1) I had a problem with 4th gear popping out while driving
> back....some 800
> miles south of the border....soon I had to hold her in just to to
> keep it in
> 4th......
> Then, it popped out and I couldn't find it.....4th was
> gone!........so we
> had to drive all the way back from Gurerro Negro to LA in 3rd....At
> first we
> took it easy
> But later we realized that it actually hummed pretty well at 50 mph
> and
> didn't really slow down that much on hills.......
>
> 2) That same trip we got hassled by some Rosarito cops at K-38 (
> ex-surf
> spot-now condos)....and after going through all our stuff the cop
> slammed
> his thumb in our
> door and bled all over the place....needless to say they left
> immediately.
>
> 3) While camping at Quatro Casas.....we had some Federales come out
> of
> nowhere in the middle of the night while a buddy and I were about
> to
> partake.......
> luckily I saw a multiple shadows and quietly told him to put IT
> down.....he
> did and then another Federale flanked the campside from the rear and
> scared
> the crap out of me.....
> I got up and told them in spanish how bad the surf was( which it
> was----FLAT!)....and that we were out of beer and ice (basic mex
> surf
> necessities)....they felt sort of sorry and basically just wanted
> to
> talk..... the poor Federale kids get dumped off along the main pan-
> peninsular highway and then the guys have to hike 15 miles to the
> coast.....in the middle of the night.....wow that's the army I
> guess.
> Anyway. I distracted them enough to get them to just keep on
> going....just
> 18 year old Mexican kids with machine guns........a little
> scarey!......anyway  nothing happened.although
> I almost had a heart attack....and grew older and wiser
> since.....WOW!
>
> Malibu Tony  85' Westy.........1.9L soon going to a 2.2L WBX
> soon...very
> soon.....summer is coming.
>

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