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gunbab Samba Member
Joined: March 25, 2008 Posts: 121 Location: Less Wood Belgium
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skidmarksgarage.com Samba Member
Joined: May 17, 2006 Posts: 605 Location: Belleview (Not the nutt-house)
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:55 am Post subject: |
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Someone quick, get out the buffer.......... _________________ http://skidmarksgarage.com/
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LJay Samba Member
Joined: August 05, 2007 Posts: 584 Location: Arbroath,Scotland
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the pics i saw before-i thought,dont look that bad ,now ive saw these -if its not used as some kind of display thing,its toast _________________ 1962 Turkis Westfalia so34.
My build thread.
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=742279 |
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obus Samba Member
Joined: March 08, 2001 Posts: 11065 Location: just off Garden State Parkway Exit 81
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The Sage Samba Member
Joined: December 10, 2005 Posts: 2470 Location: Traverse City
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:09 am Post subject: |
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I believe that is the first underwater recovery I have seen. I wonder how much the crane with road closure ran them...
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For some years ago was awarded a VW mate kjenskap to a VW bus that lay in a water in the north Telemark skiing. This is entirely on the border to Agder, i.e. in the nearby area of ". Morten Lund, who has the biggest extra equipment collection to VW and a good part cars, has sent down divers to see if this does indeed voted ... It did it first coming on Saturday at around 11:00-12:00 time will a 30t meters lastebilkran lift up a 57 against sambabuss. |
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obus Samba Member
Joined: March 08, 2001 Posts: 11065 Location: just off Garden State Parkway Exit 81
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thom Samba Member
Joined: October 12, 2000 Posts: 5943 Location: Sacramento
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:33 am Post subject: |
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That shit will dry out...
_________________ -Thom
1956 Single Cab
1957 Porsche 356A Sunroof
1957 23-Window Deluxe
1957 Mercedes Westfalia single cab
1963 Unimog 404
1965 E-Type |
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Rick Samba Member
Joined: December 17, 2003 Posts: 1539 Location: Soquel, California
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:01 am Post subject: |
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all things considered it's amazingly well preserved. Am I to understand that this was driven into, and parked on the bottom of, a lake? For somebody to go to the effort to extract that they must have a plan for it. |
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SkooobaSteve Samba Member
Joined: March 23, 2005 Posts: 3152 Location: Dothan Alabama
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K_miester Samba Member
Joined: October 30, 2006 Posts: 20
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:08 am Post subject: |
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Weeks ago my son threw his VW bus hotwheels car into our 10 gal. fish tank. Still there. HA. |
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richierich Samba Member
Joined: December 23, 2004 Posts: 889
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:27 am Post subject: |
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Rick wrote: |
all things considered it's amazingly well preserved. Am I to understand that this was driven into, and parked on the bottom of, a lake? For somebody to go to the effort to extract that they must have a plan for it. |
Story on the Norwegian site says the owner at the time 'took the wheels off it to use on another vw then pushed it into the lake with a tractor' _________________ Blah..... |
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Mikee Samba A.D.D. Boy
Joined: March 22, 2004 Posts: 3510 Location: Puyallup WA
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:31 am Post subject: |
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Its amazing how only a few years back(ok more that a few) buses were not worth anything. early 90's I remember several 23 windows selling for less than a thouseand. Now people are fishing them out of the water _________________
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bugnut68 wrote: |
I would have kicked the guy right in the dick, balls, ass and face and destroyed his weed. Hippies suck. |
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jeffff Samba Member
Joined: February 23, 2006 Posts: 1044 Location: Alberta, Canada
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:26 am Post subject: |
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Hows does one find something like that in the 1st place?
I'm guessing "the bus in the lake" was known for awhile and it takes the right guy at the right time to attempt to pull it out.
Either that or a hardcore splitty guy was diving for golf balls and happen to stumble upon it
Very interesting none the less. It would be cool to get it running and drive it as is! |
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KWZ Samba Member
Joined: July 11, 2004 Posts: 1341 Location: St. Louis, Missouri
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:35 am Post subject: |
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I had the same thought. Was there a pile of cars at the bottom of the lake? Did the water level drop? Did diver's find it? I wanna know damnit. _________________ '57 sunroof Standard
'63 15 window
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M113 Samba Member
Joined: August 12, 2003 Posts: 362 Location: Dripping Springs, TX
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:44 am Post subject: |
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Isn't there something "fishy" about how perfect the sunroof is? Seems a little too nice and "watertight"! _________________ Joe -----------
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EmpiGT Samba Member
Joined: January 27, 2005 Posts: 2597
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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That thing is going to need allot of metal replacement, get ready Gerson. Not all these lumps are just under water plants. I see allot of lumps under the paint = rust!
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mtb7001 Samba Member
Joined: February 11, 2009 Posts: 899 Location: Meridian Idaho
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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that is not going to buff out, surely the cost of the crane and crew was far more than the busses value, cool story though _________________ 63 15 window deluxe Turkis walk through 1500
"comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable" |
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House Minutia Militia
Joined: June 13, 2001 Posts: 1767
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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I think I would have tried to hit it with a pressure washer before all of that
crap dried onto it for good, and scrub it up like an Abalone shell! |
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bushaus Samba Member
Joined: November 18, 2007 Posts: 809 Location: Long Beach, Calif
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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At the very least, they've cleaned up part of a lake in Norway! Wonder how long it was down there, seems like with a VW, anything longer than 2 years and it might have dissolved! _________________ 1967 13 window walkthru bus
1965 Karmann Kabriolett beetle
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Saint76 Samba Member
Joined: February 18, 2004 Posts: 718 Location: Western United States
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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House wrote: |
scrub it up like an Abalone shell! |
Yummm...Abalone..!!! |
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