Cool things youve found in buses while cleaning/gutting?

jasoncardenas21 · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 8:41 pm Post subject:

Found a vile of Bullshit from Nevada

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Manual

All maint. and fuel records

Bunch of other little shit too.
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luxuryluke · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 1:47 am Post subject:

Best thread ever.
I found shopping lists, report cards, lots of maps of Hawaii, coins, etc.
Nothing crazy.
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SmokeyJoe · Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 11:05 am Post subject:

I got my bus and when I started to clean I found the following: 2 yellow lighters, one glass pipe, one set of empi valve colors in original packaging (looks old), original jack and tire tool, sliding door handle parts, passenger mirror glass, brand new fuel lines, plugs, distributer cap, plug wires, an old peace sign necklace charm, an old necklace chain, radio face plate for the original radio, bolts, the front shocks, horsteler floormats, a ton of dirt dobber nests, 2 hornet nests, hundreds of acorns, and all my door panels.
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ablakely · Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 6:17 pm Post subject: Re: found in our 68 westy

tootype2crazy · Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 6:26 pm Post subject:

Only thing I found in mine was rust, and lots of it. Mad

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Stuartzickefoose · Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 12:48 am Post subject:

ewdb92 · Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 12:15 pm Post subject:

In addition to the obligatory loose change, various nests, etc.. I found a Allentown PA fishing license from 1986, fan, pencils, and one plastic comb. In the hole for the sink drain, I found a lot of gravel and a metal disc which, based on the size, I think came from when the hole in the ceiling for the sink vent was cut.

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mahan · Samba Member Joined: July 18, 2012 Posts: 60

i found some weed and some lsd blotters wrapped in tin foil hidden in front air vents of the front clip i bought for my 77 westy Cool

i threw them away of coarse though
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Stuartzickefoose · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 5:45 pm Post subject:

1977Westy · Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 1:45 pm Post subject:

I found a personalized licence plate that said "TYPE 2" on it.
Not old but cool none the less.

I'm sure there are more treasures to be found but they'll have to weat for the next tear down.

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Boesen · Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 2:24 pm Post subject:

While cleaning out/gutting a 71 Devon I recently purchased. These were the finds at the end of the day.

The $10.00 bill and the unopened love letter were the favorites. So " Jared" she "wants answers!". Laughing

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richparker · Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 9:47 pm Post subject:

When I got my 68' home I found,

Mustache lego man
A monkey hanging from the rear view mirror
A custom box with a radio installed in it
A pair of 6x9s in boxes
OG screen for rear hatch
Stiff black panties
A wood and brass weed pipe
A bunch of ski tix and liturture
A ski pole shift handle
A box with: new brake shoes, 3 pict 34 carbs, old push rods, old regulator, NOS accelerator cable, valve covers, OG air cleaner, one head light and some random tools.
New KYB gas-a-just rear shocks (they are on my bus now)
A UFO magazine
Some off brand repair books and a Haynes manual (I think it's a good book, even tho it gets a bad wrap)
OG jack
Bunch of coins
2 hub caps
Brand new empi single pack
Brand new header
Set of new exhaust clamps
Thule load bars and the proper rain gutter foot pack

And a partridge in a pear tree....
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Wasted youth · Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 1:49 am Post subject:

Boesen · Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2013 3:05 am Post subject:

fig · Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 10:14 am Post subject:

All I'd ever found in the many buses I've bought was wasps' nests, spiders and broken pens, but then when I was cleaning out my one PO 70 westy I bought last year I found a 1956 Hazet round tool box. Score! And just right for my 56 oval ragtop!
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chachi · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 7:42 am Post subject:

don't know if there's a thred like this in the vanagon forum so i'll put this here. conflicted dude, several jehovah's witness cassettes and yet condoms, a dope tin and reggae/dead tapes.

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Wasted youth · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 8:47 am Post subject:

From the 1977 bus I brought home from Gilroy, CA. Original owner was from San Jose, CA...two quart cans of oil reminiscent of my childhood, a massive clutch assembly, small hand tools that I would never use, a really cool millimeter pocket tape measure with a Japanese garden brass relief/etching on one side of the case, matchbooks from fine dining in San Francisco, Hit Parader and Song Hits magazines from 1956, a hot rod magazine from 1955 missing its cover, a 12 volt trouble light, an ancient can of fix a flat, a bejeweled cigarette case like the elderly women in my family used to have, seventy gazillion pounds of mouse turds, ruined Champagne Edition carpeting...two Lobro CV joints which turned out to be used, the original jack and wrench and the Owner's manuals.

The bus was also once equipped with a CB Radio system and it has fog lights that don't work.

FlatfourFrenchy · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 9:39 am Post subject:

I found an 1826 90 Einen Thaler German coin under rear Westy seat.

Waves2day · Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 7:11 pm Post subject:

Lighter and roach, some hardware, and the best... a receipt from a campground in Wyoming from 1986 and has the (presumably)original owners name and address.

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shiningstar76 · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 5:08 am Post subject:


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