Bilgemaster
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As some of you older hands may have noticed, the Bilgemaster's been on a bit of decade-long "Amphi-hiatus," as my poor Old Buoy, which had always had patches on her patches since I've owned her, just got more and more decrepit, until I finally had to sideline her until such time as sufficient funds allowed for her resurrection. Largely fueled initially by my surprise winnings on a speculative long shot investment in some goofy marijuana penny stock, which amazingly panned out far beyond any reasonable expectations, a couple-few years ago Old Buoy finally made that trailered pilgrimage to Billy Syx' East Coast Amphicar, where she's been getting her long-overdue full makeover in lurches and lulls as fortune, or rather lack thereof, permitted. Still, I am proud to announce at long last that I drove her home to Virginia under her own steam from New Jersey on Saturday, with her first splash into the mighty Potomac River in well nigh a decade the following day. Marvelous!
I can tell you that Billy did a hell of a good job tarting the old girl up given the narrow confines of my wallet. The big takeaway from all this is that I can once again unreservedly recommend East Coast Amphicar. If you have your own "light fixer upper" (read: "the howling nightmare that is your bad vehicular conscience") moldering away in your backyard, slumped in your shed or serving as a rusty flat-tired resin-streaked storage bin in that opium den in your cellar, then call Billy and he will come and make it all better. Whether your Amphi needs a "Complete Rustoration" or perhaps a more selective "Big Fixin' Up" like mine, though requiring a real proven skill set quite beyond the hamfisted wrenchings I can manage in my driveway, with decent robust leak-free metalwork, paintwork that doesn't look like it was maybe done by volunteers from the Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind, or other expert and workmanlike repairs, then don't put it off another season. Look at these pictures, and just call Billy:
As you can imagine, without a watering Amphicar, I just couldn't bear hanging out on this Forum any longer, and some may have noticed that the Amphicar.net site I ride herd on has been similarly neglected, even going dark for a time awhile back when its old hosting service got "wεird" all of a sudden. Rest assured though, that I have long since parked that domain, fossilized relic of a bygone era though it may be, on a reasonably stable and ad-free server so that the still perfectly useful stuff crammed into its nooks and crannies won't just evaporate into the æther. Of course, now that I'm once again a webtoed motorist in good standing, I suppose I am likely to renew my random blatherings in this Forum, and perhaps even blow some of the dust off that Amphicar.net website, which has been pretty much frozen in amber like some Jurassic bug since the first Baby Bush administration, or thereabouts.
I wonder how the IAOC is doing nowadays? It all seemed to be getting bit strained and fussy with many tempers running high when I was making for the exits quite a while back--kinda like me struggling to get into my high school gym shorts. I do hope things have settled down.
See you out there!
Bilgey
I can tell you that Billy did a hell of a good job tarting the old girl up given the narrow confines of my wallet. The big takeaway from all this is that I can once again unreservedly recommend East Coast Amphicar. If you have your own "light fixer upper" (read: "the howling nightmare that is your bad vehicular conscience") moldering away in your backyard, slumped in your shed or serving as a rusty flat-tired resin-streaked storage bin in that opium den in your cellar, then call Billy and he will come and make it all better. Whether your Amphi needs a "Complete Rustoration" or perhaps a more selective "Big Fixin' Up" like mine, though requiring a real proven skill set quite beyond the hamfisted wrenchings I can manage in my driveway, with decent robust leak-free metalwork, paintwork that doesn't look like it was maybe done by volunteers from the Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind, or other expert and workmanlike repairs, then don't put it off another season. Look at these pictures, and just call Billy:
As you can imagine, without a watering Amphicar, I just couldn't bear hanging out on this Forum any longer, and some may have noticed that the Amphicar.net site I ride herd on has been similarly neglected, even going dark for a time awhile back when its old hosting service got "wεird" all of a sudden. Rest assured though, that I have long since parked that domain, fossilized relic of a bygone era though it may be, on a reasonably stable and ad-free server so that the still perfectly useful stuff crammed into its nooks and crannies won't just evaporate into the æther. Of course, now that I'm once again a webtoed motorist in good standing, I suppose I am likely to renew my random blatherings in this Forum, and perhaps even blow some of the dust off that Amphicar.net website, which has been pretty much frozen in amber like some Jurassic bug since the first Baby Bush administration, or thereabouts.
I wonder how the IAOC is doing nowadays? It all seemed to be getting bit strained and fussy with many tempers running high when I was making for the exits quite a while back--kinda like me struggling to get into my high school gym shorts. I do hope things have settled down.
See you out there!
Bilgey
