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redbug64
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Location: Fairfax/Essex, Vermont
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I sold the DD WT Panel to help us get our house. I still have the 15 window. I've been doing small things on the bus but not much. I wasted a bunch of time this summer in my new garage sidetracked on my Rabbit. I Just sprayed the missing door this fall to make it match better than sea blue..
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Fairfax, Vermont
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silvertonguedevil
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Nice Hawthorne.
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aa390392
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Joined: March 28, 2007
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Location: So.Cal
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| Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 1:30 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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Mr. Peanut has a couple fine bikes.
Speaking of Mr.Peanut I saw his motor home driving up the 405 out of LAX a few weeks ago..if the traffic wasnt so bad I wuda taking a few snap shots of it...
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tjewett
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Joined: November 28, 2008
Posts: 73
Location: Rome, PA
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| Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2015 8:05 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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Brought this sad thing home today. |
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cru62
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| Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2015 8:27 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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"Some must die so that others may live". RIP.
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bally
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Joined: April 29, 2006
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 3:56 am Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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Is there any chance of getting that back on the road? It would be a big project !!
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crukab
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Location: Vermont
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| Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 6:00 am Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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Parts is parts... I hope you didn't pay much for it.
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wcfvw69 
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| Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 6:52 am Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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Parts is parts... I hope you didn't pay much for it. |
That was my thought as well.
That bus is so rusty that some of the hardcore barn door restorers would look at it and say "oh, hell no" to trying to save it!
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Alan Brase
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Joined: March 28, 2004
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Location: Cedar Falls, Iowa
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| Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 2:22 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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Parts is parts... I hope you didn't pay much for it. |
That was my thought as well.
That bus is so rusty that some of the hardcore barn door restorers would look at it and say "oh, hell no" to trying to save it! |
ANYTHING can be saved. Does it make sense to a flipper? No. My 23 was nearly that bad. Well maybe 5 years less bad. It's together and straight now, I kinda cheated a little, a dry, but butchered 1963 Kombi is that one gave up its life- to save a pressed bumper 23.
I'd put it back.
Too bad about the glass.
Al
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campingbox
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Location: Petaluma, CA
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| Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 2:46 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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| Gibbs took me to that bus once. It was in a junkyard. There was no one home though. |
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tjewett
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Joined: November 28, 2008
Posts: 73
Location: Rome, PA
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| Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 3:41 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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Unlikely Gibbs has seen that one, but you never know he's everywhere! It was on private property near Utica New York. I had to buy the 15 window and remove it before I could take this one. |
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orangebug60guy
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Joined: June 28, 2003
Posts: 1516
Location: South Hadley Mass
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| Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 6:24 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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Unlikely Gibbs has seen that one, but you never know he's everywhere! It was on private property near Utica New York. I had to buy the 15 window and remove it before I could take this one. |
Nice kombi. Don't let others lure you away from potential metal. Luckily you had $$$ and a trailer + time to get what you wanted. Judging by the pic.
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Tyler 5447
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Location: Burns, WY
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| Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 7:10 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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| tjewett wrote: |
Unlikely Gibbs has seen that one, but you never know he's everywhere! It was on private property near Utica New York. I had to buy the 15 window and remove it before I could take this one. |
Cool find. |
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BusBoy102
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Location: Taber Alberta
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| Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 9:57 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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63 Double Cab pulled out of Lethbridge Alberta. Very excited to have my first Split, Just sad that it has to go to the back burner.
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bally
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2015 1:05 am Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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| Nice Crew Cab 😃😃 |
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Tyler 5447
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| Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2015 5:09 am Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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63 Double Cab pulled out of Lethbridge Alberta. Very excited to have my first Split, Just sad that it has to go to the back burner. |
I am really jealous of that find. Sweet score. |
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redbug64
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Location: Fairfax/Essex, Vermont
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| Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2015 10:10 am Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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| tjewett wrote: |
Brought this sad thing home today. |
Damn! I thought mine was nasty! Damn kids and their hamers! What is the glass always broken!!
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Fairfax, Vermont
1954 Standard Beetle
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UZI
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| Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 6:36 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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| Gibbs took me to that bus once. It was in a junkyard. There was no one home though. |
huh...i dont remember. too many buses.
are you sure it wasn't this one?
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Alan Brase
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Location: Cedar Falls, Iowa
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| Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 7:05 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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| Gibbs took me to that bus once. It was in a junkyard. There was no one home though. |
huh...i dont remember. too many buses.
are you sure it wasn't this one?
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On the positive side, it has some usable glass. And it appears to be a 23. Not real happy about the relocated front axle, though.
Al
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Projects: 67 sunroof bug, 67 Porsche 912 Targa, 70 Westy
Dec 1955 Single Cab pickup WANT 15" BUS RIMS dated 8/55, thru 12/55
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tjewett
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Location: Rome, PA
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| Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 7:06 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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| UZI wrote: |
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| Gibbs took me to that bus once. It was in a junkyard. There was no one home though. |
huh...i dont remember. too many buses.
are you sure it wasn't this one?
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WOW! That one might actually be worse Gibbs. Close but different. Hopefully someone has taken the time to rescue what's left of that one too! |
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