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Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:08 pm

Parts bus

a work in progress

was hard to drive on the way home until I fixed this

Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:10 pm

Nice, that parts bus looks like its in good condition though! But maybe the underbelly has some scary stuff going on that we can't see.

Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:14 pm

Parts Bus? Geez, looks much nicer then mine. Is there a world of rust and bondo under the straight panels?

Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:21 pm

What's the decal on the parts bus? Nice pair you have there!

Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:27 pm

1977_L63H_P27 wrote: What's the decal on the parts bus? Nice pair you have there!
I'm getting "travelling type 2's campout" but i cannot make out the word before/under travelling

Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:27 pm

iprangen wrote: Parts Bus? Geez, looks much nicer then mine. Is there a world of rust and bondo under the straight panels?
yeah, the parts bus looks nice, but the underside is totally gone and a magnet wont stick to most of the panels due the 50 lbs of bondo from the last resto 10+ years ago!

skid wrote: Nice, that parts bus looks like its in good condition though! But maybe the underbelly has some scary stuff going on that we can't see.
the torsion tube is barely attached; only just holding from some dodging welding by a few po's ago.

The last owner found it in a forest where it had been for over ten years. When I removed what was left of the heater tubes, I found peanuts and bird seed from the last inhabitant!

Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:30 pm

silverside61 wrote: 1977_L63H_P27 wrote: What's the decal on the parts bus? Nice pair you have there!
I'm getting "travelling type 2's campout" but i cannot make out the word before/under travelling
It's "2009", the PO took it out once last year; judging by the belly he was very lucky.

Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:41 pm

jonnie5 wrote:
The last owner found it in a forest where it had been for over ten years.

ooops it had only been there for a year and a half.

Sun Mar 21, 2010 2:32 am

Is it just me, or does that white headlight trim almost make that tin-top look like Steve Buscemi?

Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:57 am

jonnie5 wrote: silverside61 wrote: 1977_L63H_P27 wrote: What's the decal on the parts bus? Nice pair you have there!
I'm getting "travelling type 2's campout" but i cannot make out the word before/under travelling
It's "2009", the PO took it out once last year; judging by the belly he was very lucky.

I could get everything except "Travelling". I have a hard time reading words that misspelled. They wrote "Traveling" :P. Peace!

Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:02 am

jimthegman wrote: Is it just me, or does that white headlight trim almost make that tin-top look like Steve Buscemi?

Maybe if it was a bit more crazy looking!

Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:25 pm

Nice pair of buses. I dunno man. That parts bus looks good. :D Whats the plans on both?

Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:20 pm

1977_L63H_P27 wrote: jonnie5 wrote: silverside61 wrote: 1977_L63H_P27 wrote: What's the decal on the parts bus? Nice pair you have there!
I'm getting "travelling type 2's campout" but i cannot make out the word before/under travelling
It's "2009", the PO took it out once last year; judging by the belly he was very lucky.

I could get everything except "Travelling". I have a hard time reading words that misspelled. They wrote "Traveling" :P. Peace!
Did you have to point that out? I am going to see that every time I pass it!

Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:31 pm

Kirk wrote: Whats the plans on both?
Have already moved lots of parts over, I am very lucky to have a second bus; it makes me a lot braver, knowing that I have back-up bits if I screw up!
My wife, daughter and I will be camping lots this year. I just have a few things left; switching all four wheels and tires, heater boxes, rear bumper and windshield. Get new; Pop top seal, windshield washer system, interior light.

Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:45 pm

This thread is so bizarre for me. Check out the nearly identical buses I picked up late last year.....both 73's. I sensed I was reading my own thread.... :lol:
Sitting in the mountains of NM

Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:02 pm

peaceful warrior wrote: This thread is so bizarre for me. Check out the nearly identical buses I picked up late last year.....both 73's. I sensed I was reading my own thread.... :lol: :bus_orange: :bus_orange:
Maybe you've started something! Anyone from Mexico got two orange Westies? Any Europeans?

Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:07 pm

I got a '73 and a '75 two years ago. Both orange westies.

Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:49 pm

nice buses jonny5!

I hav a pair of 1972 sierra yellows - that have both been painted red overtop. does that count? course, one of them is stripped to the bone. but i didnt get them at the same time - so maybe it doesnt count? aaaaaanyyyyyhow...

I agree though, its amazing what a parts bus can do for you. and its even better when the parts bus is rusted to bits so then you dont feel bad tearing it apart, you actually feel like you are doing it a service saving all the NLA parts.

keep up the progress pics please! what kinda stuff you getting into?? :D

Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:00 pm

jonnie5 wrote: :bus_orange: :bus_orange:
I don't know why seeing that in that message was so funny.

Tue Mar 30, 2010 5:34 pm

tried the CLR and steel wool method today; it worked really well.