Barndoor Mafia

Almost done with this Big Nut Tranny. Waiting for the drums and it's done! Nothing like a newly redone tranny. OKAY

 

 

I know it's a month late, but figured I'd drop in some pictures of the last OCTO meet. With the new location, Long Beach Veteran's Stadium, which is much larger .......... no one was turned away. The event seemed much larger as this facility was spread out heavinly with tons of parking for all the splitty's. There was a total count of 183 buses on site. OCTO President, PJ French aka THE BEARD, mentioned the smaller OCTO meets grow each year. This is good news for the hobby. The only downfall to this venue is no "grilling", so no HOT DOG FRED! So next time, bring a sandwich and chips. Cuz the food sold there is for the Porsche crowd ......... BIG MONEY!!!

Any hoot, aside from the typical awesome Southern California weather, the show brought out lots of smiles and positive feed back on the new location. And not to mention tons of cool buses, both familiar and new, were on hand. Two buses stuck out like sore thumbs. One was Buddy Parks' 1961 Dove Blue ALL original Westfalia Camper. A true survivor! The other bus making it's OCTO debut was Rick Clark's 1950 Panel. Amazing to see this first generation of Type 2's still on the road. Hats off to Rick Clark!

See you guys in Februrary and don't forget about June 2012's OCTO meet. The Barndoor Line up!

Buddy's 1961 Westfalia.

 

 

Eddie Aguire's 1953 Double Door Panel

Rick Clark's 1950 Panel

 

Sexy is giving his 54 Single Cab's drive train a face lift. It wasn't bad removing the stuff, but I do know its going to be a bitch putting it back together.

This past Saturday the Wolf and I were invited to hangout with the "DINO'S BOMB SQUAD" car club. This club is based out of my old hood, LINCOLN HEIGHTS, and is made up of old Bombs and Low Riders. This event was held at the new Glassel Park off the old San Fernando Road. What a nice park for that hood. Any hoot, typical Raza gathering ...... which means, AWESOME BBQ! Endless food and drink offerings from all participants.

After this event, CRG and I were talking about doing something like this in the near future.

ROLL CALL .......... Not my Richie, Bones, CRG, Mini CRG and me.

Bones & Not My Richie's Viclas (motor cycles)

 

Found this horn button and giving it a good cleaning. Depending on how it turns out? May end up using it on the Panel?

OH SNAP! ANOTHER ONE!!??

So I get a phone call from Linda aboot a Barndoor Panel sitting somewhere in Southern Euskalifornia?? Everyone was sitting tight waiting for the green light. Come this past Saturday Linda gets the go and we all met up at the location, gave the bus a serious inspection, rolled it on top of the trailer and off to the North Shore of Cambodia it went.

Needless to say, this bus is pretty solid and very dry. It was last registered in So Cali back in 1973, so with this said, this bus has been living in our dry climate for over 35 years! JODER! And I don't have to tell none of you that it rarely rains and NEVER snows here. So very mininal rust. If anything, there is minor blistering and very light surface rust. In my opinion, this is a perfect candidate for a restoration! It doesn't get better then this. The cargo floors are AMAZING!! All the glass, with the exception of the front windshields, are the large SEKURIT and original to the bus. This thing even has the correct driver's and passenger's outer door handles. It is missing some of parts, but worth the effort of locating them and doing some justice to this bus.

This just goes to show everyone they are still out there!!?? Just got to keep your eyes peeled or get lucky. Over all we, The BDM, were stoked on this find and lucky we got our hands on it. Stay tuned for updates, cuz you know Linda is all over this like a $2 Trick with clean hands. OKAY

There seems to be original upholstery under that green material.

Look at how dry the undercarriage is !!!!!!!!!!!! Me cago en la Ostia!!!!!

Maurice and Dougie taking a break

The Crew ............ Dougie, Maurice, Johnny, Linda, Jason and $Mike.

We went as far as sorting out our spot for next year's Nick's Burgers Cruise! OKAY

And off it goes to the North Shore of Cambodia.

We just got this 1967 Transmission back from Rancho Transmission ( http://www.ranchotransaxles.com ). Now the reconstruction can start.

If you look behindthe Transmission, those are the drums for the Barndoor beam we are building