jay_merrill
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Re: 5.5 hp evenrude fisherman l963
I hear you on the safety issue - the only thing that I didn't like about them is that the idea of getting in any kind of a "head on" collision scared the heck out of me.
The cool thing about the older buses, though, was that the motors were pretty much the same across the platform of Veedubs, so you coud swap stuff around easily. The motor change that I did on mine took me 4 hours total - two motors out and one back in!
The one thing that I always wanted to do to mine but never got around to, was to stretch the body by putting a plug in the middle. I had this plan to buy another bus and chop out a section of body from behind the side door to just behind the rear wheel well. I was then going to cut mine "in half" just ahead of the wheel well and weld the thing back together, with the plug added. The idea was to then put a tag axle in the newly added, 2nd rear wheel well and also to raise the roof from just behind the front seats to the rear of the bus. Final touches were going to paint the thing in Greyhound colors with a dead mutt, on its back with its tongue hanging out, on the side. I would have, of course, also painted "Deadhound" on it!
Blame the idea on "wacky tobaccy." We came up with a lot of weird ideas in those days.
I hear you on the safety issue - the only thing that I didn't like about them is that the idea of getting in any kind of a "head on" collision scared the heck out of me.
The cool thing about the older buses, though, was that the motors were pretty much the same across the platform of Veedubs, so you coud swap stuff around easily. The motor change that I did on mine took me 4 hours total - two motors out and one back in!
The one thing that I always wanted to do to mine but never got around to, was to stretch the body by putting a plug in the middle. I had this plan to buy another bus and chop out a section of body from behind the side door to just behind the rear wheel well. I was then going to cut mine "in half" just ahead of the wheel well and weld the thing back together, with the plug added. The idea was to then put a tag axle in the newly added, 2nd rear wheel well and also to raise the roof from just behind the front seats to the rear of the bus. Final touches were going to paint the thing in Greyhound colors with a dead mutt, on its back with its tongue hanging out, on the side. I would have, of course, also painted "Deadhound" on it!
Blame the idea on "wacky tobaccy." We came up with a lot of weird ideas in those days.
