TheSamba.com :: View topic - Bay Window photos from the past

Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:08 pm

post up photo's you have of bays during their hayday!!!

i'll start,
Street merchants off College Road, Fairbanks

http://vilda.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOR...DMROTATE=0

link here
http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/cdmg21&CISOPTR=10185&REC=19

Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:16 pm

Ok now the scary part I know that guy. He run a biz call Alaska fur leather he traveled around Alaska selling his ware's. he also had a trailer you can't see in the photo that was made out of 2 bus backends welded together.

Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:23 pm

Cool, a Head shop right on the side of the road.......dig those water pipes! 8)

Fri Jan 15, 2010 7:29 pm

Heyday for the Road Warrior, 1980 travelling across the country with my 20 year-old girlfriend, I was 21 years old. Car had 111,000 miles on it when we started and 116,000 at the end. We had a fine time exploring the country and . . . everything.
Colin

Fri Jan 15, 2010 7:40 pm

The 1968 bay I grew up with:

(I'm on the right)

11/69 (yes, that's me):

Fri Jan 15, 2010 10:28 pm

Here is my families bus known as the Super Pickle while on vacation in copper mountain, co in the mid 80's. Sure do miss that bus.

Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:18 pm

MY 1969 Transporter, Picture taken circa 1975. Took that bus to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Drove it for 3 1/2 years. Never had any problems and was the perfect vehicle to have down there.Sold it to a fellow sailor when I transferred and never saw it again, might still be down there for all I know.Wish I still had it.

Sat Jan 16, 2010 5:26 pm

jasonrmecham wrote: Here is my families bus known as the Super Pickle while on vacation in copper mountain, co in the mid 80's. Sure do miss that bus.

Woohoo!

Another wild westerner!!

Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:28 pm

Me on the left in 1976 or so in a 70 bus.....

Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:18 am

Say Randy
That is a slide photo isn't it? I have some of my bus back in the day how did you put that photo no here? just scan it?

Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:37 am

My buddy (on the right) scanned it for me and just sent it to me.

Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:18 pm

1979, just bought the 68 Bus, in the color scheme I bought it. That is me with my back to the camera and other family members and family dogs.

Later in 1982, just before I had it all painted white.

Sun Jan 17, 2010 4:26 pm

This is a nice thread.

Mon Jan 18, 2010 10:37 am

yeah i love it way to go guys!!!!

i sure feel young now but am loving the nostalgia of it all, i wasn't alive back then but still long for some of those simpler times, lol keep them coming!!!!!!

Mon Jan 18, 2010 10:54 am

bigbore wrote: Say Randy
That is a slide photo isn't it? I have some of my bus back in the day how did you put that photo no here? just scan it?
you need a "negative scanner" it has a light in the lid :wink:

great thread. i'm gonna try to dig some out. i know pops has a stash.

Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:16 am

I love these. A very 70s vibe.

Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:28 am

[quote="MrBreeze"]The 1968 bay I grew up with:

(I'm on the right)

Love how your socks match the bus!!!! :lol:

Keep the pics coming!!

Tue Jan 19, 2010 1:18 pm

From Shorpy.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/7509?size=_original

Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:10 pm

is it weird to keep saying how much i dig this thread?

i just think i like seeing bays in their natural habitat and in their prime.

Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:21 pm

posted this elsewhere...but should be here too