{"id":6,"date":"2008-06-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stealthbus.net\/?p=6"},"modified":"2024-03-13T00:54:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T00:54:39","slug":"beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stealthbus.net\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Beginning&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/stealthbus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/bus1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stealthbus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/bus1.jpg 604w, https:\/\/stealthbus.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/bus1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It all began in June 7 2008 with the response to craigslist entry for a 1973 VW microbus.<br>Previous owner had brought the bus about 6 months, earlier ran it for 2 days before blowing the engine (missing cooling tin = overheat). Along with the purchase of the bus came a copy of the standard hippy reference manual for all air-cooled engines \u2013 John Muirs\u2019 \u201cHow to keep your Volkswagen alive\u201d. The pages around Chapter 10 (Engine removal) the pages were black from oily finger prints, the oil deposit concentration increased through the next few pages, with final pages almost completely soaked. I can picture the scene vividly\u2026 next to the bus was a wooden bench with a semi dismantled engine. Happily for this story that will be last we speak of the formal propulsion device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We got a straight, solid bus, 4 tires and the framework for a good project. All major components in good order, and host of spares parts and a pink bicycle \u2013 it amazing the things that you find in a VW bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all began in June 7 2008 with the response to craigslist entry for a 1973 VW microbus.Previous owner had brought the bus about 6 months, earlier ran it for 2 days before blowing the engine (missing cooling tin = overheat). Along with the purchase of the bus came a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stealthbus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stealthbus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stealthbus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stealthbus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stealthbus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stealthbus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/stealthbus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stealthbus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stealthbus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stealthbus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stealthbus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}