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Perspective on the Lazy Daze Community
I was visiting my mother (a colleague professor of English literature), and described to her the wonders of the Lazy Daze, owners of same and this forum.  She quickly brought out a copy of an E.B. White reader and pointed me to a work titled “Farewell, My Lovely”.  The piece concerns the Ford Model T, but also the culture surrounding it. And I thought as I read it, how remarkably similar to the culture of the Lazy Daze!  I attach a link to a web-site hosting a re-print of EB White’s insightful work. And, before you record critiques of how we are not that way at all, pause to reflect how great a part of our lives these machines and people and places encountered while touring in them are.

Farewell My Lovely - E. B. White

Cheers

Warren
Warren
2019 MB “Dream Catcher”
Jeep Wrangler JL
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Quote from: WhiteElk  - 
I was visiting my mother (a colleague professor of English literature), and described to her the wonders of the Lazy Daze, owners of same and this forum.  She quickly brought out a copy of an E.B. White reader and pointed me to a work titled “Farewell, My Lovely”.  The piece concerns the Ford Model T, but also the culture surrounding it. And I thought as I read it, how remarkably similar to the culture of the Lazy Daze!  I attach a link to a web-site hosting a re-print of EB White’s insightful work. And, before you record critiques of how we are not that way at all, pause to reflect how great a part of our lives these machines and people and places encountered while touring in them are.

Farewell My Lovely - E. B. White

Cheers

Warren
How nice of you to toot our horn, Warren. 1925 Ford Model T touring.jpg

Chris
Formerly: 2002 30' IB
 
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My father told stories about growing up in the Imperial Valley and, as a boy, traveling in Model Ts to Yuma, over the old plank road.  When a T slid off the tilted road, six men could put a T back on the road. It was designed as an off-road machine from the start...because there were no paved roads, only dirt.
Old Plank Road - Wikipedia
He was always amazed that Ford had come close to inventing the automatic transmission, with the T's planetary gearbox and then having the planetary drive disappear for years.

The Model T culture is reminiscent of the 60s and 70s and the VW generation. Too many, the Bugs, Buses and buggies hold a lot of special memories . Those memories are slowly fading away, along with remaining VWs.
A large percentage of older LD owners fall into this group.
We are lucky to still have our LDs.

Larry

Larry
2003 23.5' Front Lounge, since new.  Previously 1983 22' Front Lounge.
Tow vehicles  2020 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, 2001 Jeep Cherokee
Photo Collection: Lazy Daze
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The original RV.
One was recently for sale.


Jota
96 23.5 FL
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I'd like to know the purpose of the wooden crate hung under the rear end!

And, I spotted that 'gas lantern' in the 2nd picture. I wonder if that was made by Coleman?
Steve S.
Lazy Bones & Cedar
2004 30'IB (Island Bed)
Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery
Live for the day!
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Quote from: Lazy Bones  - 
I'd like to know the purpose of the wooden crate hung under the rear end!

And, I spotted that 'gas lantern' in the 2nd picture. I wonder if that was made by Coleman?
Perhaps the crate holds the white shower room or loo when traveling.

Chris
Formerly: 2002 30' IB
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Quote from: Larry W  - 
My father told stories about growing up in the Imperial Valley and, as a boy, traveling in Model Ts to Yuma, over the old plank road. 

We spend most of the winter at the Pilot Knob LTVA just west of Yuma into California.  After watching an item on Mysteries of the Abandoned about the old plank road, we visited the remnants of it a few miles to the west of us just off I-8.
Linda Hylton
Re: Perspective on the Lazy Daze Community
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"Bugs, Buses and buggies hold a lot special memories . Those memories are slowly fading away, along with remaining VWs. A large percentage of older LD owners fall into this group."
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I had a (used) '58 VW in college; kept it until I saved up enough cash during my second year of teaching to buy a '67 Sahara Sand in color, with stylin' mag wheels! I drove it over much of México as far down as Oaxaca during summers; never lost the wheels!  ;)  Wonderful car; I wish I still had it!
2003 TK has a new home
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Quote from: Larry W  - 
My father told stories ...It was designed as an off-road machine from the start...because there were no paved roads, only dirt.

Larry


My Father grew up in north Florida. I recall him telling about how many tires/tubes they had to carry to fix flats just to drive over to the next town on the sand roads. Dating a girl in another town was a physical act changing tires.
Don & Dorothy
Sold our LD in June of 2023

Our boring always non-PC travel blog
Traveling Dorothy
Re: Perspective on the Lazy Daze Community
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Quote from: Don Malpas  - 
My Father grew up in north Florida. I recall him telling about how many tires/tubes they had to carry to fix flats just to drive over to the next town on the sand roads. Dating a girl in another town was a physical act changing tires.

Another way of looking at this, back then, when you were on a date with pretty girl, you wouldn't have to fake a breakdown.
And you could find out if she was keeper if she helped you repair the tire.

Larry
Larry
2003 23.5' Front Lounge, since new.  Previously 1983 22' Front Lounge.
Tow vehicles  2020 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, 2001 Jeep Cherokee
Photo Collection: Lazy Daze
Re: Perspective on the Lazy Daze Community
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"And you could find out if she was keeper if she helped you repair the tire."
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The 'keeper' criterion works the other way, too!  (Known a few 'slow leakers' over the years!)  ;) 
2003 TK has a new home
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I picked Cyndy up for our first date on my motorcycle in 1977.  She was apprehensive but we had a great night.  For our next date, I took her out on a boat and she sat in the boat grading papers while I completed a diving job for the university.  She did not get sea sick.  I figured at that point that she had real potential.

On a date a few months later, my clutch disintegrated while taking a long hill at a spirited pace.  I nursed the car to the side of the road, down a side street and we got a ride home.  A few days later, I returned with my tools, a few boxes of spare parts and Cyndy.  We pulled the driveshaft,  transmission, and clutch assembly, replaced the clutch, throw out bearing,  slave cylinder, and put it all back together, still on the side of the road, and drove it home.  A few days later we joined one of my co-workers on his 44 foot ketch and for a week we crewed through the Channel Islands.

She has been a keeper for 43 years.

Harold
2014 27 MB
Towd: Either the Jeep Wrangler or trailer containing the BMW R1200GS and 2 E-bicycles
Happy wife=Happy life