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Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:17 pm

Yes, please keep posting pictures of found and/or saved buses. Who gives a rats ass who owns them. I wanna see pictures!!!

Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:20 pm

Well said Todd, I just feel a bit mislead about the pretenses.

Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:20 pm

Steve, if you have dry indoor storage and want to keep some of my busses out of the weather for the Winter you could go for "one weekend one trailer, five busses, 3000 miles".

Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:31 pm

Mowser wrote: And you just keep on bringing them out of hiding reaper. . . At least you have the gumption to go looking and bring them out.

Well said Mowser. Reaper is doing the whole community a favor. Undiscovered buses sitting outside exposed to the elements are not doing anybody a lick of good. Let's get them in the hands of those that will care for them and save them.

--James

Wed Dec 03, 2008 6:25 am

66busman wrote: Yes, please keep posting pictures of found and/or saved buses. Who gives a rats ass who owns them. I wanna see pictures!!!

hear hear..

Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:12 am

Great finds guys !! Nice to see that vintage Iron being saved !!!
Grim/Steve, I was surprised you did'nt have a truck & trailer rig, w/ all the finds you had, I was sure there was a Truck/trailer gassed & ready to go :)
I've started to lean on my AAA+ more, between the wife & kids as members we get 18 tows (Toe's?) a year, 100 miles each, might as well use them, or ya loose them......

Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:21 am

sloans265 wrote: UZI wrote: the cut wheelwells are fine. turn it into a shorty and roll it. it's halfway there.

I wonder how a Jersey Looker shorty would handle the Trailbash? I can see some serious airborne action going on there!

Airborne! :P

Rollover! :o

Play dead! :(

Maybe that's just what already happened to it. :?

Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:30 pm

Funny, people come in here and bitch at the reaper for claiming/ not-claiming ownership, blah blah blah.
The flip side is that 90% of the busses posted in here who are 'owned' by the finder are 'flipped' by the finder in a few days. How does that count?
Reaper sources a bus, can't afford it or the deal isn't right or whatever and he passes it on to someone else. BFD. From this angle looks like HE's doing all the hard work, hopefully being handsomely rewarded.
That's more stand-up than taking the easy credit and flipping it instantly.
Serious props to him!

Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:39 pm

Steve is doing a great job he puts alot of time and money into finding all of this stuff! Keep it up Steve cant wait to see the next score so all of the haters can bitch about it!! :lol:

Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:52 pm

I'm glad someone is out there finding this stuff so I can sit on my ass in my cubicle and paypal them for the crap I need. :D

Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:09 pm

vwrus66 wrote: Steve is doing a great job he puts alot of time and money into finding all of this stuff! Keep it up Steve cant wait to see the next score so all of the haters can bitch about it!! :lol:

X2 Keep it up Steve :D

Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:42 pm

///Mink wrote: I'm glad someone is out there finding this stuff so I can sit on my ass in my cubicle and paypal them for the crap I need. :D

Glad I'm not the only one!

Keep up the good work - all you bus hunters and/or flippers - get them back into circulation.

Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:50 pm

Why some might claim these are not "finds" as about two or three other people in the whole world know about them, they are "finds" for the rest. Sounds to me like it is mostly sour grapes, that there was a competition for the buses and someone lost and someone won.
--Dan

Wed Dec 03, 2008 4:33 pm

Steve is a stand up kinda guy.... He's doing something that the rest of us only wish we could if we had the time. I bought my 60 sc from him at a very resonable price and have seen a few others that he has rescued either for himself or for another enthusiast... I say great work Steve and I only hope he keeps hunting this German metal down and finding them good homes.

Wed Dec 03, 2008 6:30 pm

I think Steve is a nice guy and when I asked the question about whether he owned the deluxe it wasn't calling him out or anything....I was just curious what the story is. I was hoping to hear he pulled them out of a farmers field for $50.

I must be in the minority, but I think it's silly that he posted photos of those two deluxes in this thread. Those busses were not "found" by Steve, or "hunted" in my opinion, he simply offered dry storage at his place for the collector who owns them. I think it's great that he's providing the owner with his opinion about what should be done with those busses. In January of last year I picked up a couple real nice original paint busses ('60 singlecab and a '61 doublecab) for a friend of mine who lives in Arizona, he bought they from the original owner and asked me to pick them up and store them for him for five months. At no point did I think that I "hunted" those or "found" them, or felt justified in posting photos in the "Bus hunting history" thread.....that would be totally ridiculous. I was just moving them from one place to another and offered to store them while the owner got his shit together. I'm not picking on Steve, I think he's a nice guy, and this it's great that those busses are now stored indoors. I'm just wondering why those busses were even brought up in this thread to begin with.

I'm not sour, and I do think it's cool that he's hauling busses out of the woods. I just think that it's kind of goofy that he put those photos up knowing everyone would think he bought them.....and he continued to let the tension build until multiple people asked what the story was.

Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:14 pm

three pages of fun reading in two days on a otherwise slow thread keep it up steve. some of us don't need a verified story line to enjoy a bus porno

Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:27 pm

campingbox wrote: I think Steve is a nice guy and when I asked the question about whether he owned the deluxe it wasn't calling him out or anything....I was just curious what the story is. I was hoping to hear he pulled them out of a farmers field for $50.

I must be in the minority, but I think it's silly that he posted photos of those two deluxes in this thread. Those busses were not "found" by Steve, or "hunted" in my opinion, he simply offered dry storage at his place for the collector who owns them. I think it's great that he's providing the owner with his opinion about what should be done with those busses. In January of last year I picked up a couple real nice original paint busses ('60 singlecab and a '61 doublecab) for a friend of mine who lives in Arizona, he bought they from the original owner and asked me to pick them up and store them for him for five months. At no point did I think that I "hunted" those or "found" them, or felt justified in posting photos in the "Bus hunting history" thread.....that would be totally ridiculous. I was just moving them from one place to another and offered to store them while the owner got his shit together. I'm not picking on Steve, I think he's a nice guy, and this it's great that those busses are now stored indoors. I'm just wondering why those busses were even brought up in this thread to begin with.

I'm not sour, and I do think it's cool that he's hauling busses out of the woods. I just think that it's kind of goofy that he put those photos up knowing everyone would think he bought them.....and he continued to let the tension build until multiple people asked what the story was.

when I first "found this 57-23 in June of 2008 it was in a small out building on a family owned ranch.I dont believe that the so called collector has ever done much more than take it apart in the last 18 years that he has owned it,I dont think he has ever even driven it.I continued to "hunt" the bus or buses for the last 5 month until one day the owner took me up on the offer to store them.Storing them is only a continuance of the bus hunt.No I have not made a kill in this hunt yet but perhaps im in a mode of catch and release? only time will tell if this method of hunting will even work to my advantage.Perhaps this will help clarify to why they are posted in the hunting thread..here are some pics from the day I found the 23 back in June

Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:00 pm

That 23-window isn't exactly sitting out in the elements.

Why don't you get Gary to push that barndoor truck in the shed next.

Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:18 pm

campingbox wrote: That 23-window isn't exactly sitting out in the elements.

Why don't you get Gary to push that barndoor truck in the shed next. one week after the pictures were taken the buses were pulled out into a field since the family ranch sold.in the field is where the buses sat from June until i pulled them out on Monday.Greg before you jump to conclusions this is not Gary's bus and if i remember correct Gary's 23 is a 56 and sitting in a complete condition put together when I seen it last month.the 57-23 I found was 5 miles from downtown Spokane.

Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:25 pm

Good work Steve. That bus is too nice to sit outside over the Winter.