With my “Big Brothers”

Today I delivered a rear clip from a bus to the port for shipping, the warehouse we use is huge and they ship a lot of cars for the military…  so I found myself unloading next to the “real” car haulers…

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but that was the end of the day… let’s start with the beginning… I had this rear clip sitting in the bay area… but it’s too large for our car containers as it takes space up from a car, so too expensive, so I had to bring it down south so we could ship in the BBT parts containers once space allowed…

So I gassed up…

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…. fed myself well….

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…. and hit 101 fwy south…

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101 is one of my favourite Freeways especially this time of the year, when all is green along the road…. unfortunately traffic was bad….

Every year You see here the ever-growing grape farming expanding… for the excellent Californian wine off course, every year there’s more and more land turned in to  wineries….

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This is the last real oil field along 101 that I know off, there used to be way more!

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Past Ventura You gonna hit traffic, You never know where exactly, but I never drove from Ventura to the 405 (that goes to Los Angeles) without hitting traffic, except during night-time…

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Pacific Volkswagen, that was the first Volkswagen sign I ever saw along the freeway my very first time in California… a mere 27 years ago….. orso…..

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and once arrived at the shippers I had to unload along the big car haulers, quiet in impressive for a guy out of the country side of Belgium!

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So now I have an empty trailer, guess what???? …:)

Stay tuned and You will know!!

 

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  1. In my time in California around the LA – freeways 1975 / 76,
    some people had ” big dolls ” in their cars.
    By 2 or more people in one car, you was allowed to drive in the most left lane. Cameras at that time were not so professinal as they are nowadays. I was living at that time in Van Nuys, on the north side of LA. South and east side, were the warehouse was, were to dangerous to live.
    That’s also were the ” fires” were in 1967 / 68. They were also in Chicago and Detroit were I spent most of the time in the VW – parts
    business, between 1967 and 1977.

    Nice stories BOB. Very interesting, old times never get lost.
    Pieter Los.

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