Modern Vespa

Went into Y.S. yesterday for my birthday lunch of choice - built around a veggie sub from Current Cuisine, ice brewed coffee from dino's and pastries from the Dog.
It was the annual "PorchFest" end of summer event. This is a community come-together event - namely several dozen musical presentations at sites around the village - most often on front porches.
Some of the entertainers:
Dr. Meat, Kid Bigfoot, Strings Attached, Trash Fart, Playing Possum, Momtime, Whatev'r, Wrong Elevator, Nasty Bingo, Rachel Mouse & Fitch, Captain's Daughter, ....and one - musically styled - psychedelic folk. I missed that one....got sidetracked by an excellent street magician. His finale still has us perplexed. He made 3 large cantaloupes appear from under his top-hat!

I had a buck in my hand - but after the cantaloupes, I doubled that!

A very good brass combo played from the porch of the hotel - I think they were pros hired by the hotel.


We scored the primo table for listening - staying clear of the massive foot traffic!



Daughter found a couple of often HTF buckeyes fallen from the big tree above our table.



At one point I helped a pair of seniors parallel park their VW bus nearby. She was having trouble getting it into reverse.
I took some pics of this rare thing. Then noticed that they had dated it '71.
Well, my first VW after Vietnam was a '69..... baywindow. The last split window busses were made around 1967.
They were thanking me for my help and then walked happily away into the crowd (parking spots were HTF today)



Saturday crowds in this little destination village are always impressive....today, with this event in town - even I, an old hand at finding parking - had to go one street over! 'Posers' ride and drive through all day. Saw a vintage red Ferrari! Couple on a PCX and another couple on matching Honda 90 trails.


The village has signs posted that bycicles may use the full lane. Not sure I'd do this!~


Family had a great time - high points for me were that sandwich, and those magic cantaloupes!!!~

O.S.

I wonder..... was this VW bus made in Brazil?!

O.S.

what is YS? you keep posting it as a place as if everyone else knows what it stands for.

Yellow Springs, Ohio. East side of the Dayton metro area.

Wonder what the VW bus was going for? Me, I like them but not that much. Reason why? I had a friend who had hippie parents. The parents had to go to a funeral in South Texas, and they lived in Virginia Beach, VA. The parents were going to take their 77 VW bus in the middle of summer. I was like "Take my Toyota Van (89 model) it has A.C., cruise, fridge in middle of front seats and was fully serviced. They hesitated but ended up taking me up on the offer. They left me the key to the bus. I had a Helix at the time but needed the bus to run a errand. YUCK! I was looking for the A.C. button, manual trans?, no cruise control, no power steering, soggy brakes. It was horrible. I didn't find anything charming. The hippie parents ended up buying a Toyota Vanwagon like mine when they got back from Texas.

Many years later I was given a free VW bus, the last of the air cooled campers. I rescued it before the local junkyard got there as the owner just wanted it gone. I borrowed a rollback tow truck and snatched it up, took it to my house and marked the calendar 30 days from the day of drop off. It had a clear title, zero rust and no body damage. I ended up not even touching it within those 30 days and gave it to a old guy who fixed VW's. There was a motor wrapped up on the floor of the bus that I assumed was bad. Turns out the bus had a new/rebuilt motor and it fired right up once installed. Guy offered me a convertible Super Beetle as he felt bad because all I charged him was the $40 I had in fuel filling the rollback up, but I never went and got the Super Beetle.

The bus WAS made in Brazil! It is a 1971
These splits were made through 1975 in Brazil due to continuing demand.
Lady had it shipped several years ago.
Nice chat with the seller.
New trans, 38k miles, runs great. Sorry. Didn't ask the price.
O.S
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My hometown, actually. It's not very big, so this is all fairly surreal for me.

It's also where a certain big shot celebrity comedian lives, but that's a different story.