I added some more gadgets to my garage. A very rare stainless steel 7up A1 cooler and and a folding bike. The bike is a present from my wife. Some friends own folding bikes and we used them during the recent bus festivals for cruising down the show grounds. I saw this a couple of months ago but wasn't willing to pay the asking price for it. Later I decided to pay, but is was sold already. I now found out my wife bought it! What a nice surprise!
I added two very rare coolers to my collection: a stainless Dr. Pepper cooler and a chromed Coke repro 6-Pack. Both are very hard to find! Very pleased these two found me :)!
I have a seasonal licence plate ending end of October. Luckily Bjarne was able to sort out a couple of issues on my bus just in time, so I could drive the bus home last weekend, without trouble for the first time in two years, and without a trailer! Thx buddy!
My friend Bjarne offered me to have a look after my still loose wheel bearing. He picked up the split on Monday afternoon and already presented the problem on Tuesday morning: the toothing of the rear wheel hub is just worn out. So the loose wheel bearing was just the indication and not the cause! The workshop before had the bus for 3 months without finding and/or solving this problem...
Bjarne drives a split bus as well and restored it all by himself. He works as an employed motor mechanic, but I'm sure he will have his own workshop one day! With 23 years he has enough time to evolve! I'm pretty impressed and will be one of his first customers for sure! Well, at least if he proves to be as good in assembling like he is in disassembling...:)
I joined the Bulli Summer Festival in Wesel again. Unfortunately my split bus has a problem with the rear wheel bearing -again- just 400km after I got it back from a workshop. I brought it there in February for various reasons and got it back end of April. One of the tasks was to fix the wheel bearing and to find out, why it keeps loosening again so quickly. Obviously they didn’t find the problem.
Anyway, I couldn’t drive the 350km to Wesel and took my T5 instead. Had a fantastic long weekend with my crew and didn’t take many pictures (of cars).
I joined the festival in Hanover as well. After a terribly wet start on Thursday and an even wetter Friday all got good on late Friday afternoon. And from there on we had a fantastic time! We had a lot of beer, listened to great bands and had hilarious fun on the camp ground and with "an der Bushaltestelle" and friends. Also got invited to a photo shooting for an upcoming book about the festival. Thank you to my favorite bunch of bus drivers who made this weekend one to remember!
