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Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:11 am

Yesterday J. and myself extracted this bus from the far reaches of the East Coast syndicate. It has been off the road since 74, got it from the second owner who never messed with it at all. It is a swivel seat, missing the seat and track, so I'm gonna need one of those (Lind). BUt it has OG safaris and there must have been a gas heater. The Logos are under the primer that someone just sprayed over everything. The bus has some rust, but hopefully with going through all the mechanicals it could hit the trails of NJ in July, hopefully. It does run. 1961

J., I know you have some more photos.

Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:45 am

Nice score! Time to get that primer off and show the logos!

Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:11 am

Nice work.... it looks pretty solid for the east coast too!

Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:26 am

oh, so you got this bus:
(or one of the 96 others just like it)

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/lit/60ownersviewpoint.php

Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:53 am

Same sliding rear window - neat.

Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:03 am

that's awesome- great score

Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:49 am

Damn, that is a cool picture Lind. Thanks man. Does the picture show the bus as being red? This one was M-coded Grey. It has the grey roof still, I am not sure what color the body is under the primer. But the lettering is yellow.

Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:52 am

that kid is OOC. taking control over the east coast logoed panels one at a time.

Tue Jun 06, 2006 10:20 am

nick is what is referred to by certain syndicates as a "risin' outlaw"

congrats on the score. right now, it looks like there will be 4 logo'd panels tearing thru the woods of NJ

Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:44 pm

Thanks, Lind.
Wow, I saw the photos and thought, gee, its neat to have a shot of the bus in early operation. Then I read further, and see that they had at least 97 BUSES in use.
Its highly unlikely that this bus is the one in the photos.
This is a sobering thought. One out of 97 buses is known to have survived.
Tough odds, there.

Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:13 pm

I also note the average MPG of the intial fleet of 27 trucks was 16.5mpg.
Remember that when you complain about your gas mileage.
Here's a shot or two from yesterday.
Check out that "Lazy Eye" turnsignal arrangement!
And, Nick, I'd have to call it Tea Colored.

Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:17 pm

one bullet one fried egg, thats big pimpin'

nice score

Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:24 pm

Perhaps this collectable Jewel T delivery truck could give some clues to the original colors:

And dammit, gotta look closer at that primer, see if the JewelT logo is on there somewere.

Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:41 pm

j.pickens wrote: Thanks, Lind.
Wow, I saw the photos and thought, gee, its neat to have a shot of the bus in early operation. Then I read further, and see that they had at least 97 BUSES in use.
Its highly unlikely that this bus is the one in the photos.
This is a sobering thought. One out of 97 buses is known to have survived.
Tough odds, there.
there was another swivelseat panel with that funky window that has been for sale a few times over the last few years. I saw it two years ago at the show in milan, mi. I don't know that it is from that same lot of buses. also, we don't know that the entire fleet was swivel seats, and they might not have had exactly 97, the number could be more or less. (I don't believe everything I read in sales literature...)

Tue Jun 06, 2006 4:53 pm

So what's up with the seat brackets if it was a swivel seat, or were they put in later?

Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:54 pm

spookymulder wrote: So what's up with the seat brackets if it was a swivel seat, or were they put in later?

Bolted on.
I still haven't figured out how the seat which was in there (Full length Humpback) fit into place. Nick and I couldn't get it to line up with the added on brackets. Maybe the Humpback was just laying around the warehouse so he threw it in there.

Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:58 pm

Lind wrote: j.pickens wrote: Thanks, Lind.
Wow, I saw the photos and thought, gee, its neat to have a shot of the bus in early operation. Then I read further, and see that they had at least 97 BUSES in use.
Its highly unlikely that this bus is the one in the photos.
This is a sobering thought. One out of 97 buses is known to have survived.
Tough odds, there.
there was another swivelseat panel with that funky window that has been for sale a few times over the last few years. I saw it two years ago at the show in milan, mi. I don't know that it is from that same lot of buses. also, we don't know that the entire fleet was swivel seats, and they might not have had exactly 97, the number could be more or less. (I don't believe everything I read in sales literature...)

Unfortunately, the bus in the vintage VW photos has high hinge cargo doors, this bus has low hinges...

Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:30 pm

Dang, Nick you're finding all the cool stuff.
I want to see some logos........

Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:58 pm

He had the seat in when I showed up. But then I freaked and pulled it out of the way. It would be pretty cool to see the Jewel T, have to look a little closer. I wouldn't be suprised if it is on the drivers door because all the writing I found on it was right at the bottom edge, seemed like there should have been something above it.

Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:04 pm

I just told my dad about the Jewel Bus, and he said, "Oh, the coffee man, he used to come to my moms house." Pretty cool.