Thread: Progress on the bus . . .

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Sorry . . . 'bide a wee' means to 'stop right there', or 'just hang on a minute', or 'you've overstepped the mark'.
It's a cautionary comment.
I try not to use too many Kiwi colloquialisms but they sometimes slip in all by themselves . . .

Johnboy I wish you luck and hope they pull the lead out and get the bus done. Good luck sir!

Sorry to hear about more drama there JB. Hopefully you can get something moving and bring this to a amicable resolution.

I recently had a similar situation with a graphics shop and had to find another willing to fix the first shops mess. So it cost me more, took longer than required but it came to a good resolution..

Hopefully yours is the same!

Originally Posted by johnboy

Sorry . . . 'bide a wee' means to 'stop right there', or 'just hang on a minute', or 'you've overstepped the mark'.
It's a cautionary comment.
I try not to use too many Kiwi colloquialisms but they sometimes slip in all by themselves . . .

Heck, don't hold back on the local jargon, jb! Part of the fun is reading something, scratching one's head a bit, then sometimes hunting for the local meaning often tied back to former times, long, long ago. When you look at that one, "bide a wee", with your explanation the origin is more clear - "abide", can mean remain in place or hold position, as well as to tolerate; and "wee", is obviously a short period or small amount. Makes perfect sense, and very succinct!! Three little words vs "Now just wait a second there!" All good!

It's coming out and coming home.

Booked it in this morning for a cof at VTNZ Kopu at 9:00 am Thurs 5th June.
We'll be picking it up Wednesday arvo, so will turn up with a jerry-can of fresh petrol.
I reckon it may need it after sitting for eight months.

If there are any problems Frank Bruyston of Thames Towing has offered me the use of his workshop.
(He's a member of the NZ Morris Minor Club, has a '57 Morrie with a 350 in it. Good bloke. Sometimes it's not what you know, but who . . .)

Then it's coming home for a couple of days while I do a familiarisation course on it.

I've only driven it once, thanks to bureaucratic bungling and tradies mucking me about, and that was almost two years ago.

After that . . . in to the paint shop!

So what's the status of the interior works, jb? Did they finish things out, or are you going to be looking to someone to pick up that job and get it wrapped up? And "bide a wee, Mate", we need PICTURES!!!

I don't know what progress has been made on it; and quite frankly I'm past caring.
I've just had a gutsfull of being mucked about.
I spoke with a mate (Bryan Creswell,) last night who informed me that he has a cobber who used to work for this outfit, (TraNZtech,) so he's familiar with the product and its installation.
Bryan said that if any finishing work is required his cobber should be able to step in to do it. (It seems he owes Bryan a few favours . . . that's the way the earth turns. )

So pictures won't be forthcoming until at least next week . . . I just want a conclusion to this entire saga.

We've built/altered cars before; but never have we been mucked about as badly as we have been with this build.

It has been eight (nearly nine,)years since this idea was first mooted . . . the first hiccough was when the shipping company lost the damned thing; eventually finding it parked on a wharf in Singapore!

Graeme Cox did a superb job on the engineering for me, no complaints whatsoever there, but since then its been all downhill; with bureaucracy being the major stumbling block.

So this build is my swansong; I'm never going to put myself through the years of pure frustration that we've had to endure throughout this exercise.
And it's not even finished yet!
There's still the painting to be done.

Surely nothing can go wrong there?



well it seemed a good idea at the time . . .
sigh.

Just maybe the brush strokes could all go in different directions or the runs go up......... I think that is all I could think of for paint job issues John. Hopefully the interior is finished to a good stage and not needing too much work.

Just make sure they close the windows before painting.

But JB... the other part of the journey has been a chance to meet and visit many peoples from a different continent!! And that has made you a celebrity, whether you like it or not! So it isn't all bad and good things happen to those that wait!

If I could think of some more cliches' I'd use them too!

Originally Posted by 34_40

But JB... the other part of the journey has been a chance to meet and visit many peoples from a different continent!! And that has made you a celebrity, whether you like it or not! So it isn't all bad and good things happen to those that wait!

If I could think of some more cliches' I'd use them too!

Thinking about the whole saga in its entirety you're right . . . nobody wants a cake that's all icing . . . that would be sickening.
And, as you point out, there have been many pluses on this journey, among them was meeting up with the good folk of Billings and Perry in Oklahoma, with the bus itself being the catalyst.
And the trip across Route 66 to California with two of these Billings' Okies.
Also the meetings with CHR members on our last trip . . . along with the opportunity to host Roger and Susan Spears when they visit NZ next year.

So yes; this cake has had icing on it.


It's just that some people get so far up your nose they lift your hat.

Originally Posted by johnboy

So yes; this cake has had icing on it.

It's just that some people get so far up your nose they lift your hat.

I'm thinking it isn't your nose... the point of entry is quite a bit lower!

jb,
Let me know ahead of time if I need to pack up my tools and ship them over ahead of time next Spring We can send Susan & Rosie off to see sights while we wrap up the bus!!

JB, sorry to hear it is what it is but at least you can move on and keep at it!

Originally Posted by 34_40

I'm thinking it isn't your nose... the point of entry is quite a bit lower!

A few years back I had a spat with the barmaid at the bottom pub in Opunake and she called me a haemorrhoid.
"A haemorrhoid? Me? Explain yourself!"
So she informed me I was a 'pain in the a***'.
I thought about that for about two seconds and replied: "That's alright. Haemorrhoids only bother a***holes."


I had to drink at the top pub for some time after that.


Don't know why.