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Subject:Re: Wood burning bus
From:Eric Pickering
Date:Wed, 31 Mar 1999 03:20:11 +0000

Haven't seen this guy but I do remember a post a while back on the type
2 list that talked about building a wood/charcoal stove for heat in a
bus.  I do think it was serious.  The plans made sense and looked like
they'd work although I think you'd have to be mostly insane to do it
(and people think gas heaters are dangerous.....).
I also remember an episode of the Dukes of Hazard where a still was
built inside a van.

>
> Lat January I was driving up the New Jersey turnpike with a friend (in his
> Ford Explorer) when I smelled wood smoke.  I looked around for a fire by the
> side of the road but saw none.  Soon after, we came up behind a vanagon, beat
> to all hell.  There was a pipe exhausting from the driver's side sliding
> window, with smoke coming out.  It became obvious that this was the source of
> the wood smoke, especially when we passed it and saw that it was an airsucker.
>
> I shot a picture, but don't have the film processed yet.  Will post on my web
> site eventually.
>
> Anybody else seen this very dangerous vehicle?
>
> Peter & Zippy