Its because I mis-remembered the spelling of his name!

Try 'Brendan Slevin'.  He's got an '85 GL or something called Tortorro and a
cafe at http://www.bellatazza.com/

My apologies - my memory has started having these tiny glitches ......

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Mike Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Could be, but I Googled "Brendan Slavin" + bend +oregon and came up with
> nuthin'.
>
> It's odd to me that the name, "Brendan Slavin," has a familiar ring to it
> but I can't say why. Googling "brendan site:vanagon.com" only brought
> three hits and they were from Brendan Moran, Brendan Irwin, and Brendan
> Coffey.
>
> So where did I hear about this guy?
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>
> On 5/24/2008 7:25 PM Scott Foss - Shazam wrote:
>
>  YES THANK YOU Jake !
>> I had a 'B' in mind, but knew it wasn't 'Ben."
>>
>> Jake de Villiers wrote:
>>
>>> I believe that's Brendan Slavin?
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Scott Foss - Shazam
>>> <scottdaniel@turbovans.com <mailto:scottdaniel@turbovans.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    No Sir...........
>>>    i will tell you EXACTLY the skinny on going to the DMV with your CA
>>>    registered van.
>>>    first there are NO SMOG CHECKS in Oregon anywhere, except in the
>>>    Portland area and the Rogue Valley ( medford- ashland ) where i am.
>>>
>>>    They will VIN check it, so drive it to the DMV.
>>>    go in, tell them you now live in oregon- when i did this just
>>>    yesterday
>>>    with my old mercedes with Wa plates- they said
>>>    'do you live in oregon?"
>>>    do you have an Oregon drivers's license?"
>>>    'is the car here now?"
>>>    i answered yes to all 3 questions -they said fill out this form, wait
>>>    for your number to be called.
>>>    so they might want you to get an Or driver's license first.
>>>
>>>    but other than looking at the VIN on the car - they don't care.
>>>    they don't care if it was a diesel and now it's a Suabur gasoline
>>>    engine  or whatever.
>>>    They simply are not interested in it smog wise in anyway.
>>>    there WAS a deal in Oregon where campers cost more, like double to
>>>    register,
>>>    I beleieve that went out Jan 1 of this year.
>>>    They also do two years at a time.
>>>    Yesterday, on my 38 year old Mercedes, to transfer the title to Oregon
>>>    registration........you know waht i mena, and get plaes and tags
>>>    for two
>>>    years...........cost $ 120.00.
>>>    Bring proof of insurance of course on the vehicle.
>>>
>>>    There are no safety inspections.
>>>    I 'was' told by the allways difficult Ashland DMV ( never go there)
>>>    .....i had this parts van or something i thought i might want an
>>>    orgeon
>>>    title for ( was Wa) ............they said 'has to be running, has to
>>>    have all equip liight lights working' etc.........
>>>    of course i am like .................what , it's a parts van.  And it
>>>    still has Wa plates on it, and i let the reregistration lapse.
>>>    But of the several out of state cars i've taken to the DMV to title in
>>>    oregon...............
>>>    THE ONLY thing they have ever done is look at the two VIN tags, I
>>>    could
>>>    have a Stinger Missile mounted on the roof and i don't think they'd
>>>    notice. I've had a non VW gasoline engine in a diesel van ( the 5th
>>>    digit of the   VIN tells which type of engine the van left the factory
>>>    with , B = gas, G = diesel, very logical - in geman perhaps ! )
>>>    ...............but i've had that weird combo, and due to the age
>>>    of the
>>>    van.......
>>>    they never said boo about engine or whatever.  That particular van
>>>    had a
>>>    Wa title that said 'gas- passenger' but when i got my Oregon
>>>    title...........their system flagged as a diesel by the VIN - and the
>>>    Oregon title said 'diesel'.
>>>
>>>    but you won't have any of that.
>>>    and if it's like Medford is, their soul  ( sole ? ) interest in
>>>    the van
>>>    will be to check the VIN , both of them. ( there's a 3rd hidden
>>>    one too ) .
>>>    It could be different in Bend, but i doubt it.
>>>
>>>    But I've been to the Medford  DMV about 8 times in 5 years or so,
>>>    always
>>>    smooth.
>>>    it's like the old days.......
>>>    you just go in, say i want to title this car in Oregon to me, they say
>>>    'fill out this form', ' give us your money.'
>>>    they give you the plates and year and month tags,  , and YD-
>>>    you're done.
>>>    there is a nice Crater Lake license plate, it's an extra  $ 20.
>>>    and one
>>>    time only fee, and that money goes to Crate Lake they say, and i did
>>>    that on one of my vans.
>>>    There are also salmon license plates or whatever.
>>>    yesterday the guy asked me 'do you just want the pine tree ones? "
>>>    .................i said'just  the basic ones, yes '
>>>    ...........those are
>>>    the standard plates, but look into their Crater Lake plate- that will
>>>    make you look like a clued-in Native !!
>>>
>>>    you asked, there you go. More than you wanted !!
>>>    scott
>>>    www.turbovans.com <http://www.turbovans.com>
>>>
>>>    Rogue Valley - Medford-Ashland, Southern Oregon.,
>>>    Vanagon engine conversion specialist, vanagon restoration  and
>>>    'saving '
>>>    vanagons etc.
>>>
>>>    BTW,
>>>    There's this fancy coffee shop down town, in Bend, in the cool part -
>>>    Italian flavor type place- not a starbucks.
>>>    I haven't been there, but the owner is a vanagon guy.
>>>    Can't think of his name right now. He and his wife and i 3 kids were
>>>    stuck on this side of the Cascades a few months ago, with a
>>>    vanagon that
>>>    could only go 20 mph, working together at me shop we fixed it -
>>>    water in
>>>    the fuel, and got them home.
>>>    So ask in that coffee shop, and you'll have a vanagon friend perhaps !
>>>    84 Vanagon passenger model I believe.  Real nice people too !
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    Mike Elliott wrote:
>>>
>>>        As I posted earlier, Mrs Squirrel and I are moving to Oregon
>>>        (Bend) from
>>>        California. The endless seas of pink stucco houses, mini-malls,
>>>        pollution,
>>>        heat, and people everywhere around here in SoCal have finally
>>>        gotten to
>>>        me. I know this is not necessarily a Good Thing in the minds
>>>        of many
>>>        Oregonians, but there it is. Bend has had more than its fair
>>>        share of
>>>        Californication, but we'll do what we can to fit in: we're
>>>        bringing our
>>>        little home businesses there to contribute to the local
>>>        economy, and
>>>        we'll
>>>        be friendly.
>>>
>>>        First thing we'll do is register with the Oregon DMV and swap
>>>        out our
>>>        Cali
>>>        plates for Oregon ones, if for no other reason than to avoid a
>>>        stoning
>>>        from riled-up passersby. Of course I expect we'll need to pass
>>>        emissions
>>>        (and safety?) requirements -- anyone care to comment on that
>>>        vis a vis
>>>        California standards?
>>>
>>>        --
>>>        Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>>>        71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
>>>        84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>>>        74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
>>>        KG6RCR
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jake
>>> 1984 Vanagon GL
>>> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
>>> Crescent Beach, BC
>>> www.crescentbeachguitar.com <http://www.crescentbeachguitar.com>
>>> http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27
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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
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