Did you get to stop at the Barbie Museum in Utah? That's Clause Barbie
Museum!
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From: "Mitch Planck" <mitch@ias.net>
To: "'Datsun Roadster Mailing list'" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 10:54 AM
Subject: OT - sights
> I just got back from a 2 week RV camping trip out west, traveling from
> Michigan, through Wisconsin, Minnesota, out to Yellowstone, down to
Vernal,
> UT (Dinosaur NM), and back through Rocky Mountain NP, Nebraska, and Iowa
> (around 3500 miles). No roadsters sighted, but it was great fun anyways
and
> mostly good weather and incredibly beautiful. I want to live in Wyoming
> now...
>
> Something very unusual that I saw was at the visitor center for Dinosaur
> National Monument in Dinosaur, CO. It was an RV based off a Land Rover
> Defender, very cool. 20' long, 4-wheel drive, air intake snorkel higher
than
> the tops of the doors, and two spare tires. The RV part looked quite nice
as
> well, probably sleeps 2 (maybe 4), water heater so probably mini-kitchen,
> probably a toilet or mini-bathroom as well. This vehicle was driven by a
> French couple and had French tags, they were looking to drive up Harpers
> Corner Drive to Echo Canyon, very rough roads and remote, but very
beautiful
> in there. My guess is that they had their vehicle shipped over and are
doing
> an extensive off-road sightseeing tour of North America.
>
> Speaking of SPAM, I recently got some, from the Spam museum in Minnesota!
I
> hadn't had it since I was a kid and my kids hadn't ever heard of it. Pork,
> water, and spices, pretty tasty. At the museum they had a little display
set
> up with the Monty Python video running. The whole museum was very
> tongue-in-cheek and quite good - if you ever travel I-90 through southern
> Minnesota, I suggest stopping for an hour or so.
>
> And in the Roadster news department, I was finally able to remove the last
> bushing from the lower link spindle (front suspension). I don't know when
> that thing was last greased 'cause it was a huge pain to get off. I just
> about completely rounded the bushing (I did round four of the six corners
on
> it) removing it. After getting it off I could see that it had a nice rust
> build-up on it. That spindle and bushing gets replaced! I now have the
front
> suspension completely removed on both sides. I'm going to start on the
> rear-end tonight. I'd like to get that off soon so that I can stash the
> frame in the recesses of my garage and park my daily driver in the garage
> for winter.
>
> I'll be replacing all the nuts and bolts on the suspension, so I'll make a
> list as I go along (I plan on using the AN bolts from one of the suppliers
> mentioned earlier) and put that on my web site
> (http://www.brooks-planck.org/DatsunDiaries) when it's ready.
>
> In reading Andrew's estimate of 500-700 hours to do a restoration, and at
my
> current rate of work (very slow) and probably doubling that since this is
my
> first one, I don't see this project being done for a LONG time. That's
fine
> by me since I want to have a very nice car that will not need this done
for
> another 30 years or longer if I keep it well maintained.
>
> Mitch Planck
> Chelsea, MI
> '69 1600 parts donor
> '70 1600 frame & body donor
>
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