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Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:46 pm

This was a nice find. What is the fate of these busses? They would make some nice Patina'd drivers!

Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:11 pm

How long ago were those pic's taken?

Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:09 pm

October of 2005. They were posted in the Barndoor gallery by Turbobug.
There are more pics! 8)

Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:08 pm

That stash is long gone!

Fri Dec 29, 2006 1:18 am

I think these were taken early 90's all have been scrapped...... :cry:

Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:44 am

The panel stacked with those whatever bumpers is really early!

Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:36 pm

Barndoor Mafia wrote: The panel stacked with those whatever bumpers is really early!
It was a 50 and like Rich says scapped in the early 90s shortly after Matt Keene discovered them.
Its a real shame that there wasnt enough interest at the time :evil:

Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:19 pm

49barndoor wrote: Barndoor Mafia wrote: The panel stacked with those whatever bumpers is really early!
It was a 50 and like Rich says scapped in the early 90s shortly after Matt Keene discovered them.
Its a real shame that there wasnt enough interest at the time :evil:

I figured it was a 50/51??? Crazy!! About 20 years ago this buddy of mine was trying to sell a deluxe dash. He couldn't sell it. He told me to drop it into my panel. And I am pretty sure this guy has it????

Sat Dec 30, 2006 3:40 pm

yuo they have all been scrapped for metal in the early 90s the pics were taken in the mid to late 80s :(

Sun Dec 31, 2006 8:28 am

It sucks that they all have been scrapped! Thanks for the comments.

Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:14 am

may they Rest In Peace. :cry:

Wed Jan 10, 2007 3:23 am

Who needs Playboy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love Austrian buses i have a MAY 56 Deluxe with the big (A) on the rear end!

Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:43 am

I took these pix in 1991 after spotting the scrap yard from a motorway flyover in Lower Austria. The funny thing was that until the new motorway section was built near my Grandparents house, I never new that yard existed. (God bless modernity).
Anyhow... my friend Phil and I hauled a whole heap of parts out of that yard, but had trouble selling most of the Barndoor stuff! I reckon we had over ten pairs of ribbed bumpers, which we parted out for... £20 a piece (30 US Dollars). Nobody wanted any parts, simply because there were perhaps one or two Barndoors in the UK at the time. We had a bunch of early tail lights, semaphores, cab dividers etc. etc. etc. I had a letter printed in VolksWorld asking whether anyone wanted to save any of the Barndoors and got zero response. Can you imagine finding the yard today? The 1950 Panel was in totally solid condition...
Aside from the Panel, there were another seven or eight Barndoors ranging from 1951 to 55. All bar one could have been salavaged. About five miles down the road was another Yard where I bought a 1962 23 Window for £25 (40 Dollars). Oh, for a time machine.
I ventured back to the main Yard every time I visited my Grandparents right up until their death in 1999. Sadly, due to strict environmental laws, the Buses were cut up in the mid 1990s.
My favourite part that came from the Panel was its cast aluminium front badge. It is now on Julian Hunt's 1952 Panel. Peace, Matt Keene

Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:08 pm

Thanks for the reply from the photographer himself. At least we all know what happen to them. :cry: