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Wed May 31, 2006 6:58 am

Hey there jazzej. That's a pretty damn creepy story. Ever get faint whiffs of petchouli and B.O. for no apparent reason, or feel like you're hauling an unseen passenger? -K-

Wed May 31, 2006 7:04 am

I forgot, I also found the license plate from VA that says DEAD6.

Wed May 31, 2006 7:16 am

Let's see...found an old little notebook of repairs and doodles as well as an envelope of pictures (sadly none of the bus) in my old 63 Riviera.

When I finally got the heaters hooked up in my 67 Riviera, I was on the freeway one day when a day parking permit from Cal Poly in the early 80s popped out of the passenger dash vent! That was kinda random.

Also found a near-new Coleman campstove under the back seat in that camper, too!

Wed May 31, 2006 7:41 am

jazzej wrote:
1960 so-23 i bought this camper from a tow truck driver some hippy OD and died in the back of it. All that hippies worldly possessions where still in the bus when i picked it up. tons of broken glass and rocks, nude pics of unshaven hippy girl, weed pipes, books on jewelry making, jerry Garcia drawings, post cards tons of shit
mo moneymo moneymo money

So....wheres the nude hippy girl pics?

Wed May 31, 2006 8:18 am

When i was looking through my Deluxe for the front pedal pan i found it... but it is actually for a right hand drive :lol:

Wed May 31, 2006 8:24 am

Stanagon wrote: I found two little rubber cutouts (arrow) in the left rear corner of my '61 Mango Standard, behind the trim panel.

They fit the cargo floor mat perfectly.

My guess is that they have been there since the bus was new.
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i found a cut out from the cargo mat behind the exact same panel in my 62 westy. seems especially odd since the bus was m-coded for no middle and rear seats and the og solid mat(one hand cut for so-22 kit) was still in it. maybe it got the wrong mat at first?

Wed May 31, 2006 8:33 am

I bought a '66 Westy from a surfer dude in Imperial Beach about 11 years ago. Nice OG camper, bought from the OG owner. The Bus wasn't too much of a mess but it needed to be cleaned up a bit when I got it home. I lifted the Z-bed seat to clean out it out and discovered the original tent still in the bag with the label attached like it was never used. The poles were missing though, but still a cool find.
--Dan

Wed May 31, 2006 9:19 am

In a 76 Bus I recently got I found a couple pieces of Dead artwork:

I also found a contraption made out of two plastic soda bottles taped side by side. Inside are water filters. Clear plastic hoses connect the bottles and it is arranged so there is an inlet and an outlet through the filters.

I'll post a picture of it later.

Wed May 31, 2006 10:30 am

Found a few pictures of my bus in there too. damn i keep forgetting what i found!!!!!

Wed May 31, 2006 10:39 am

Should anyone like the vacuum, please PM me...

Wed May 31, 2006 10:58 am

I wouldn't exactly say this is cool, but I found a few of these little black widow bitches.

Wed May 31, 2006 10:58 am

The Sage wrote: [.img]http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/279575.jpg[./img]

Should anyone like the vacuum, please PM me...

i'll take that aero papyrus interior :wink:

Wed May 31, 2006 11:01 am

Back several years ago when I bought my all original 1960 Kombi with 34,000 original miles I found a NOS Thin Slot Generator with a NOS Round regulator on top of it in a box underneath the front seat. Funny cause that part dates to the mid 1950's and the Bus is quite a bit newer than that. It also had several early 1960's maps including California, San Diego, Mexico, and Europe in the parcel tray. I also found a couple old ticket stubs from the Spreckels Theater in San Diego. The Bus was parked in a garage in 1972 so everything was from then at the newest.

Wed May 31, 2006 11:21 am

Campy wrote:
About five years ago, a friend of mine bought an old bus for $500 that had been parked by an orchard outside of Chico when I looked at it but had decided to pass on it. It had been owned by an illegal alien and when he died, the owner of the ranch he had bee working at sold it. When my friend removed the two front door panels, he found a paper bag at the bottom of each door with money in it: a total of $15,000.

I have heard this story a few times, and actually looked at that bus.
Still kicking my ass for not buying it, and I find myself ripping all of the door panels off of every new bus I get...
lol

Wed May 31, 2006 11:24 am

i bought my westy from a concrete contractor...
who had saved it from a junk yard.... =D>
pieced it back together and had been campin' in it.
other than that, the trail was cold on the history of the bus from him.
i did a check on the vin #s.. found out it entered the u.s.a. in florida.
which goes with the love note/letter i found up in the rear ceiling compartement when i gutted the westy.
i have written to both the sender and receiver.. but no reply. :cry:
still wanting to know more.....

o yeah ... and three dead mice 8-[
... a pocket weigh scale (for what :roll: hmmm)
... sum old orange,red & yellow shag carpet

Wed May 31, 2006 11:38 am

In my '58 panel, owned by a TV repairman (sorry, no logos), I found a dead and petrified opposium behind the driver's seat, two jacks, tool kit, business cards, fuel receipts, registration cards, and an old Thompson's Guide of Orange County...lots and lots of vacant land and very few houses! In my '67 Kombi/former camper/camper to be...I found fertilizer from the PO's landscaping business. Inside my '64 dormobile parts bus...I found four dormatic seats and the rear cooker/cabinet set up, but no center table...bummer. I like the $15K in the door story...I'd like it more if it were true.

Wed May 31, 2006 11:54 am

in my 61 crew I found a fix-it ticket in it from the late 60's, that was pretty cool.

Wed May 31, 2006 12:35 pm

My '54 Single Cab had the classifieds section of the LA Times from 1955 underneath the front seat. There are some Barndoor Kombis listed in the ads.

It also had an NOS 40hp cap and rotor.

Wed May 31, 2006 12:43 pm

my headbanger cloaset had a porn video called "black in back" it was quite ammusing...it was the story of a black psychologists that got it on with all his female clientele...

Wed May 31, 2006 12:46 pm

Cutting up a 56-58 single cab found a peach pit inside the upper bed frame rail......there is absolutely no may this could have found it's way in there beside on the production line.

My mechanic has found a German stop watch inside the tunnel of a bug. He claims one of the workers hid it from one of the supervisors/techs, that controled the assembly line. Yet again, no way for that to get in there other than during production.