Hippy Wheels

I have a vision of a Mini-Cooper hanging on davits, like a lifeboat on an ocean liner. (For trips into town, I mean.)

 

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

urban, that's what bicycles are for...

 

have you considered veggie oil?

 

What's veggie oil. How is veggie oil made ?

 

its used cooking oil.....all you do is filter it ....it does require some engine modifation

 

Have I consider it? Naw, not interested or ready at that time. Bicycles? Eh, I do a lot of desert camping and prefer having a roof over my head to sun beating on my back. Besides, man, I got tats to protect! Gotta protect my bodyart! However, I do plan on getting a electric bike for Burning Man traveling around the playa.

Update: Just purchased an old cab over stove/oven w/ propane tank for $30 bucks. My fingers are crossed in the hopes that it still works. My guess is the cab-over that was being parted out was about 20+ years old. The stove itself is pretty simple set up unlike the newer ones that require wiring for the vent. By next weekend, all the seats will have been removed. YEAH!

 

I think Skoolies are cool. I plan on building one some day when I have a little hippie family of my own. But for right now My vw's are good enough for just me.

 

urbangal, hey I also drive a real bus to burningman each year. it's a 40-footer, though, and a wide-body city coach. one suggestion, after looking at your website: get new radial tires all the way around. You don't want to have one of those retreads fly off at high speed. I've had three tire blowouts so far in my experience of bus ownership and they aren't pretty when they happen. When a tire that big looses its retread, it will flap around with enough force to break your suspension components or other things under your bus. That happened to me and cost a lot of money for parts. Also, it could fly out and hit another car. That also happened to me one time and luckily I had good insurance to cover the damaged car. And if you don't have a proper spare tire, then you'll have to get your bus towed and that cost me $750 once to have mine towed just 20 miles to the nearest tire shop. I finally spent $3000 to get six brand new tires for my bus and now I don't worry about tires anymore, but hell that cost my whole budget for getting the rest of the interior finished!

 

wow.. thats realllllllly really cool.. im gunna do something like this once i get older.. you've inspired me! thanks!

 

Appreciate the advice man, but my funds don't allow for replacement of all the tires, just the back ones. And I"m having to scrimp and save just for those. New tires for my daily drive have to come first. *sigh* Quote for replacing all 6: $2300. Ain't happening. The fronts are find propably got two or more years left on them. Would mind having them rotated though just to be on the safe side.

Well, the yard is being worked on so I"ve been unable to do anything today. Maybe I go put my jigsaw together and cut the holes for my sinks.
Fell out of the bus today too. Looooooong way down :&

Note to self: do NOT jump down on the step up latter if its is on uneven ground.

 

Good idea to rotate the tires- make sure you put two of the brand new tires on the front. Then you can put the old front tires on two of the rear wheels. It's much worse to have a front tire fail.

 

Tha bus sounds great. I have an ex ambulance myself.
One piece of advice a good friend gave me when I got on the road was put my bed as far from the door you enter. after some very muddy and sandy excursions it is one of the best pieces of advice I got while kitting my beast of a bus out.

 

Hey Jay...are you on tribe.net under RV burners? I'm sure I saw someone talking about an ex-ambulance.

Yeah, the last 8 feet just past the wheel hubs is the entire bedroom. What I am considering now is how much dust blocking I'm gonna need. From the looks of the pictures I've seen on various sites, I'm gonna need lots. Pink palace didn't have any dust in its rounded shelter. Wonder how they did it...

 

I had an old coach, did it up, took it to India and back (from the UK). When I got back, had to sell it. No way you can live on them here. However, now I have a well paid straight job, and I might just buy it back! Been talking to the guy that owns the land where it's parked, and got the name of the kid who I sold it to, and his number. More soon.....

 

PS - I want a bicycle in mine next time - would have been so useful in India. Modifying an old mountain bike into a sweet chopper, so that might just fit the bill!

 

All the seats are out...well almost. Two stubborn seats with screws in inaccessible places will have to be removed later on when I unhook the rear heater.

Also I took down one panel between the interior lights to see what's there. nothing but wiring and wasted space. All that is gonna come down and I'm putting up track lighting in my bedroom. I think I can handle that w/o frying myself. Not sure about TCD's entire electrical system as I know next to nothing about installing one.

Rear floor is warped like mad-might trying screwing it back down with self drilling wood screws. That's gotta be flat before I put down the 1/2 plywood for the flooring. Wish I could afford cork however Bamboo is a possibility...

 

oh...i am so incredibly jealous...you are living my dream

 

Here are some updates for those curious about TCD's growth
In the end I had to replace the rear floor panel as it was too warped to fix and my drill isn't powerful enough to cut through the steel floor. It didn't go as bad as I had thought and after cutting it in half, rounding out one section the floor is nice and strong.

Argh! I did not get the flooring done like I'd hope! Stupid rear heater was harder to take out than I had thought and the last remaining seat frame I needed the grinder so there was a lot of back and forth to the garage. Some coolant drained on to the floor which is ok since that shiz is staying right were it is. The screws are like frozen into the rubber which is taking a lot of time just to remove one or two at a time. I"ve decided that it isn't that important I have the rubber up and will leave it down. My hope is that the 1/8 floor will be flat enough for the final application of either bamboo or cork. In the front area will be carpet left over from the house's new carpet. Sure, it isn't eco friendly carpet yet these pieces will be useful in quieting the front area down.

Also I managed to make an electrical phopa but I'll ask in another part of the forum. Let's just say that I removed the stop sign as it was waving to people whenever I turned the right signal on. So now to solve this puzzle I'm going to have to play chase the wiring but that's ok, I just want my flashing lights back to make up for losing my stop sign.

So today after many a frustrating start stop but a find time prime and painting the future countertop a fantasic purple color. I just have to do the smooth side the same thing and I'll be ready to cut that counter top. At first I didn't think I'd go for putting additional counterspace out into the aisle but maybe....would put more space down on the floor and ilimminate the need for lots of cabinets. I did get one 1/8 section of plywood panel down. Sweet!