Old Buoy

[Michael Echemann]

Hey Bilgey:
If any Amphi deserves to be back on the road it's OLD BUOY. She was probably
just mad at you for considering towing her this year to Celina instead of give
her the usual July workout via the PA turnpike. Glad the dist. worked for you.

Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Connelly
To: amphicar-lovers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 6:11 PM
Subject: [amphicar-lovers] Back on Track (was: Distributor Woes)


Thanks to Mike Echemann, who UPS'd me a perfect low mileage distributor
assembly (for a better-than-bargain price I'm sure none of you want to hear
about), OLD BUOY is once again the scourge of all that is paved and waved.

Thanks to everyone else who chimed in with tips and support, too. And to
the prophetic Mr. Chapman, I should add that just as you foresaw, I indeed
DID lay the shaft in 180 degrees off the first time...I suppose it's a
corollary to the falling Buttered Bread Axiom to Murphy's Law, whereby the
buttered side will ALWAYS hit the floor...In this case, if there are two
possibilies in an distributor shaft's alignment, the first one chosen will
ALWAYS be the wrong one. Still, it only took a minute to rotate it, and
all's well that ends well.

Thanks again folks, you're the geechiest, man....And by the way, I just got
off the phone with Randy B. in Maryland, and it turned out it WAS just an
electrical-ignition system gremlin after all, so he's now running on all
four cylinders. Despite the filthy weather, it's been a great day down
here, just south of the Mason-Dixon.

~Bilgey~


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[Michael Echemann]

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<font face="Arial" size="2">Bilgey:</font>
<font face="Arial" size="2">We don't really care about all of that tech. mobo jobo. What I want to know is are your still givingOld Buoy her yearly exercise by cruising to Celina or have you thrown in the towel and decidedto transporther in luxury. My bet is she's saying "Drive Me again I can make it'. I hate to see her spirit crushed but then again a man has to make compromises from time to time. Personally I have always been inspired by seeing you drive into the Holiday Inn Express parking lot after such a long drive ( knowing what the PA turnpike can do to a car and driver). I love the 8 tracks too.......... I know Old Buoy deserves the easy ride but I'm one who will always cherish the memory of her making the trip for us all to be proud. Hats off everyone to Old Buoy for inspiring us. Amphi's can answer the bell when a real road trip is called for.</font>
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<font face="Arial" size="2">Mike</font>
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<div style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black">From: William Connelly
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial">To: amphicar-lovers@yahoogroups.com
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial">Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 3:26 PM
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial">Subject: Re: [amphicar-lovers] More Amphibi-Flix


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<font face="Arial">Make DVDs, you say? That'll have to be someone else's good deed, I'm afraid. Fact is, my computer is SO ancient it's frankly a wonder it ain't steam powered. It's still got a5?" floppy drive in the spare bay. Though it can read both, it can't even burn CDs, let alone DVDs. I mean, how many people do you know of still running Windows 98...FIRST edition? Get the picture? But I suppose I'll keep nursing it along until the smoke from it gets too heavy for me to see its great fat flickery cathode ray screen. 'Cause I mean, How else am I gonna run my WordPerfect 4.1 and play myLeisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards?</font>
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<font face="Arial">Geezingly yours,</font>
<font face="Arial">~Bilgey~</font>
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To: amphicar-lovers@<wbr>yahoogroups.<wbr>com
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [amphicar-lovers] More Amphibi-Flix


Bill,

Keep these coming!!! I love them... Can you get a DVD made up that we can purchase from you with these old clips??? Please Bilgey!!!

Cigarman
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[Bill Connelly]

Mike,

Yes, OLD BUOY and I do miss those long long rides north, and I still believe
such a proper leg stretching were the very best thing for my Amphi, whether
it's off to Celina or Billy Syx's East Coast Amphicar compound in New Jersey
for gentle caresses by the master (with the Amphicar getting looked at
too!). At least once a year every vehicle should get a chance to cavort
unhindered along a couple of hundred miles of open road to blow out those
cobwebs, especially a vehicle that gets dunked in the drink and then
basically hung up wet so often. After about 50 or so miles, just as I pass
the exit for the legendary Skaggsville (that's when I really KNOW I'm "outta
state"), I swear you can feel the whole ride start to limber and sweeten up
as the crust begins falling away.

But, these are not pleasures to which I'd care to subject my wife and two
small children. Inexplicably, they fail to derive the same unalloyed peace
and joy from a twelve hour kidney thumping in a rolling Comanche sweatlodge
that I do. So, the long term plan has been to get together the means on the
cheap (I'm basically a poorly-paid librarian, remember) to be able to haul
both kith and kin in relative comfort to Celina, to family lakeside
amphibian get-aways, and so forth. Accordingly, a couple of years back I
obtained a double-axle car trailer that appears to have been handmade from
U.S. Army surplus steel, possibly during the Roosevelt Administration...No,
the FIRST Roosevelt. Thanks to Doug Parsons and crew, who laid a couple of
wooden runners on it to accomodate Old Buoy's narrow stance, this is the
hauler I showed up with in Celina that one year I did not drive the Amphi
north. Next, for well over a year or so, I've been saving up to get an
older (read: cheap) RV with a beefy V8 to haul us all around in reasonable
comfort, doubling as an impromptu beach house. And I now have pleasure in
telling you all that last week I finally took possession of a '79 Champion
27 foot Class A motorhome that I'd actually purchased in December, and that
last week I drove the "White Elephant" down from Michigan to Virginia, about
800 miles. Ironically, the only mechanical gremlin I had to subdue en route
while pushing this nearly 30 year old beast homeward from Michigan was the
brand new craptastic modern electric fuel pump the previous owner had
recently had mounted. No part of the rig's original stock equipment gave me
any trouble at all. Tallying up the gas receipts, I see that this 27 footer
powered by a 440 Dodge engine got just a hair under 10 miles per gallon
(actually 9.73 miles, if you must know), and that over the mountains of the
Appalachian ridge with an intermittent fuel leak until this was corrected by
a newer and rather less "chinsey" fuel pump. (NOTE WELL: Amphi owners
interested in mounting an electric fuel pump as an alternative or in
addition to the original mechanical one, say, to cure vapor lock ills, would
be well advised to AVOID the Model 12S pump manufactured by Mr. Gasket Co.
and sold by AutoZone stores. The first one of these I got was stone cold
dead even in its box, while the replacement developed a dripping leak at the
inlet flange within a day's driving).

So anyhow, it was a hell of a shakedown trip, my kids are enthralled with
our old new rolling home-away-from-home, and so sadly it seems likely that
the days of my solo cross-country Amphi missions are drawing to a close...

Well, gotta rush to work now to pay for all of this!

~Bilgey~

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Echemann
To: amphicar-lovers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:21 PM
Subject: [amphicar-lovers] Old Buoy

Bilgey:
We don't really care about all of that tech. mobo jobo. What I want to know
is are your still giving Old Buoy her yearly exercise by cruising to Celina
or have you thrown in the towel and decided to transport her in luxury. My
bet is she's saying "Drive Me again I can make it'. I hate to see her
spirit crushed but then again a man has to make compromises from time to
time. Personally I have always been inspired by seeing you drive into the
Holiday Inn Express parking lot after such a long drive ( knowing what the
PA turnpike can do to a car and driver). I love the 8 tracks too..........
I know Old Buoy deserves the easy ride but I'm one who will always cherish
the memory of her making the trip for us all to be proud. Hats off everyone
to Old Buoy for inspiring us. Amphi's can answer the bell when a real road
trip is called for.

Mike