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Hi Tim; An excellent observation! It's really not necessary to go though the job of mounting/wiring a second alternator if the one that's already there could be used in a more effective manner. I've thought about isolators that can control the charge to two or more sets of batteries by controlling t...

Photo 19: http://www.mrsharkey.com/busbarn/busgfx/grace29.jpg In February 1981, after nearly two years of preparations on my housetruck, I made a trip to Santa Cruz and visited Prakash and Suchi at their property in the hills. I parked the truck in the driveway alongside the end of the road. For a w...

Photo 18: http://www.mrsharkey.com/busbarn/busgfx/grace28.jpg Prakash wearing his best Sgt. Peppers costume, wiiide bell bottoms, lacy shirt with striped sleeves and shoulder pads, huge mutton chops, and China shoes. The deck of the bus was level with a big log, which made getting up and down a lot ...

I Grace still on the road and is Prakash still livin in it?

Well, that would be giving away the ending of this series. Guess you'll have to wait until I spin out the next 24 years of photos....

This is the fourth installment in an ongoing photo essay detailing the history of Prakash's bus Grace . The previous installments are: The Early Years Room Addition Repaint then Road Trip <hr> Photo 17: http://www.mrsharkey.com/busbarn/busgfx/grace27.jpg After Prakash's trip to Canada, he and Suchit...

Eh, as far as gliders go, that one is priced at about it's actual value. If I was shopping for something to convert, I'd choose something with a lot more sex appeal and parts availability than a Hundai.

Hello and welcome. I doubt that it's necessary to have anything so industrial as a bellows to enclose a crawl-through. Pickup campers do this all the time, and the seal isn't much more complicated than a vinyl surround shaped like a slit-open bagel. I've also seen things that look like an inner tube...

And now, the Road Trip: Photo 16: http://www.mrsharkey.com/busbarn/busgfx/grace26.jpg After the repairs and repainting, Prakash took Grace on a trip through western Canada. Our window into that trip will be brief, as the only two photos I have are the one in the post above this showing the deck, and...

Photo 15: http://www.mrsharkey.com/busbarn/busgfx/grace25.jpg Here's the reason for the rectangular fixtures in the photo in the post just above this one: Roof-top deck! This area is almost 8 x 8 feet and is accessed by way of the opening skylight in the front loft. The edges of the decking have soc...

Hello, and welcome. Sounds like you are intending to remove your existing roof and build new construction to do the roof raise? I could send you over to look the the Blackman Family bus, but theirs is more of a raise-the-original project. My preference is to do the framing with steel and use a littl...

<table border="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#FFFFC0"><tr><td>For the last week I've been feeling very energized and have begun putting some time in on my Crown project, installing the electrical wiring rough-in. Here's some photos of that process: <center> http://www.mrshar...

Uhhh, let's see, back on-topic: Photo 14: http://www.mrsharkey.com/busbarn/busgfx/grace24.jpg August, 1979. The painting nears completion. This photo needed a lot of Photoshop help, but it looks pretty close to reality as far as color balance. The camera lens is making the deck columns look angled, ...

Sharkey's site is just the bee's knees, isn't it?

I prefer to think of it was the Cat's Ass....

That photo was taken outside the Main Camp entrance of the Oregon Country Fair a day or two after the 1982 event. The cab-over Ford is known as 'The Peach Truck'. It's fitted with a 1,000 gallon tank and a 10 HP gasoline-powered pump and is used to water roads to keep the dust down and as an emergen...

The exterior is steel, which is part of the reason for building the new bus, 29 winters of being warm and moist on the inside and cold on the outside have given the metal a terminal rust condition.. The upper, longer shift lever is for the 4-speed 'corporation' transmission that the truck was fitted...