TheSamba.com :: View topic - HAUER BROS. Logoed 1959 Panel Auction 6/27/24

Thu Jun 27, 2024 3:00 pm

So this sold at auction today for 18.5k in MN. One owner since new parked inside in 1968 looks like. Low miles, lotsa rust underneath but cool bus.

Thu Jun 27, 2024 3:50 pm

Are you the winning bidder? Bus is 3 hours from me but I wasn't able to attend auction so I was phone bidding on it. I ran it up to 17.5k before calling it quits.

Thu Jun 27, 2024 5:01 pm

Talk about a drool worthy panel- high tail lights, OG safaris, sealing wax red, and logos

Someone scored!

More pics please :P

Thu Jun 27, 2024 5:19 pm

von_hansel wrote: Talk about a drool worthy panel- high tail lights, OG safaris, sealing wax red, and logos

Someone scored!

More pics please :P

Really that good of a buy at 18.5k with the amount of rust underneath? I saw it in person and it did have some rust in main rails by torsion housing and had rotten crossmemembers and out riggers along with the rocker rot. Nose and floors were great though. Had some fairly nasty damage to passenger side rear corner as well.

Thu Jun 27, 2024 6:11 pm

rustfree1967bug wrote: von_hansel wrote: Talk about a drool worthy panel- high tail lights, OG safaris, sealing wax red, and logos

Someone scored!

More pics please :P

Really that good of a buy at 18.5k with the amount of rust underneath? I saw it in person and it did have some rust in main rails by torsion housing and had rotten crossmemembers and out riggers along with the rocker rot. Nose and floors were great though. Had some fairly nasty damage to passenger side rear corner as well.

My assessment was strictly going off of the few pics posted here and that it wasn't a killer deal but it also wasn't over priced like 90% of the buses that linger on this website. I realize that the market has soften and panels are the least desirable bus, but I know someone who paid close to $30k for a dry double door March '59 panel in the last 18 months, so considering all things, I felt with the OG safaris, an uncommon color for a panel, OG logos, and high tail lights made $18,500 a fair deal.

The Wagner's Plumbing and Heating panel was sold for more than $18,500 and flipped for a profit recently and it is the most common color for a panel. Granted it was sold both times as a running and driving bus, but it also has rocker rust and dogleg rust

My comment was also going off of the pics with the cargo floor looking nice and what looks like all it needed is doglegs, and inner and outer rockers. Frame rust and the damage to the passenger side rear corner changes things. The pics are dark so I was unable to see the passenger side damage.

It's worth whatever someone is willing to pay :)

Thu Jun 27, 2024 6:53 pm

von_hansel wrote: rustfree1967bug wrote: von_hansel wrote: Talk about a drool worthy panel- high tail lights, OG safaris, sealing wax red, and logos

Someone scored!

More pics please :P

Really that good of a buy at 18.5k with the amount of rust underneath? I saw it in person and it did have some rust in main rails by torsion housing and had rotten crossmemembers and out riggers along with the rocker rot. Nose and floors were great though. Had some fairly nasty damage to passenger side rear corner as well.

My assessment was strictly going off of the few pics posted here and that it wasn't a killer deal but it also wasn't over priced like 90% of the buses that linger on this website. I realize that the market has soften and panels are the least desirable bus, but I know someone who paid close to $30k for a dry double door March '59 panel in the last 18 months, so considering all things, I felt with the OG safaris, an uncommon color for a panel, OG logos, and high tail lights made $18,500 a fair deal.

The Wagner's Plumbing and Heating panel was sold for more than $18,500 and flipped for a profit recently and it is the most common color for a panel. Granted it was sold both times as a running and driving bus, but it also has rocker rust and dogleg rust

My comment was also going off of the pics with the cargo floor looking nice and what looks like all it needed is doglegs, and inner and outer rockers. Frame rust and the damage to the passenger side rear corner changes things. The pics are dark so I was unable to see the passenger side damage.

It's worth whatever someone is willing to pay :)

I totally understand and you have some good points. It is a very cool bus and wouldn't take a whole ton to get it up and on the.road again. I was fully expecting to be hauling it home today for 10-12k but obviously someone wanted it really badly. From what I gather it went to someone from California

Thu Jun 27, 2024 8:35 pm

I saw pretty detailed pics of the undercarriage and it looked very rough. I was worried about how bad it might be. I have seen buses from this part of the country before that had absolutely great looking top sides and then the chassis is completely rotted loose from the bus. I mean the frame, rear torsions just fall off a bus that otherwise looked absolutely great. I did place an absentee but but was conservative in my number. Someone took a gamble bidding that high for something that rotted without seeing the underneath in person. I will be very curious to see how rusty she really is when it surfaces down the road.

Thu Jun 27, 2024 10:46 pm

Fri Jun 28, 2024 1:41 am

Well, that is basically the type of damage I was facing when I started mine. Not too uncommon on busses which lived in Germany all their life.

Took me two years to fix.

Fri Jun 28, 2024 2:09 am

GVW 7000? Damn. Good luck pushing the bus around with over two tons of cargo with a 36hp engine.

Fri Jun 28, 2024 7:38 am

Crazy how it has that much rust in the wheel wells and underneath and the front floor looks so nice.

Fri Jun 28, 2024 9:56 am

Stocknazi wrote: Crazy how it has that much rust in the wheel wells and underneath and the front floor looks so nice. I suspect 'cuz the rust is all from Midwest road conditions but the windows and seals didn't leak much, hence clean cargo and front floors.

Fri Jun 28, 2024 12:32 pm

Quote: GVW 7000?

Yeah, i thought that might be the phone number!

All the rot is where salt is thrown on midwest cars. They may get away with just outrigger/lower panels/doglegs.

Fri Jun 28, 2024 12:37 pm

70bus wrote: Quote: GVW 7000?

Yeah, i thought that might be the phone number!

All the rot is where salt is thrown on midwest cars. They may get away with just outrigger/lower panels/doglegs.

Nope, as stated i saw this bus in person before the auction and there is some rot in main rails near torsion housing and all cross members are rotten as well

Fri Jun 28, 2024 1:07 pm

My truck was a little worse - new floors, nose and a chunk of the frame rails. Personal experience says that owner may spend nearly as much in repairs as they did purchase. Yikes.

Hopefully their partner is as understanding as mine was.

Fri Jun 28, 2024 5:22 pm

My bet this bus was probably quite solid when parked. It is reported to have very low miles and the auctioneer told me it was parked in 63 (but plates read 1968 ) in a "shed" and never driven again.

Being from the mid-west, this odd rust is from being stored inside a building with a dirt, gravel or very poor quality concrete floor usually in a damp or low-lying area. The moisture from the ground wicks up through the floor and condenses on the bottoms of vehicle and being an enclosed building it takes forever to dry off. Like the outside of a glass of ice cold water on a hot day. This is why you see this deep rot, rust on the chassis and frame of the bus. Seen this many many times around these parts. I had a ghia, low miles, original paint and stored in an old, damp building just like this and the underneath of the car was so rotted it was unsavable and we cut it up.

Also had a building like this on my property. A cement floor garage built in a low spot. The floor was always wet-damp during warm months if closed up. It was so bad when I first bought the place the bottom 6 inches of all the wall studs were rotted away. I had to rebuild the entire bottom of the building and add forced ventilation to keep it dry inside. It helped but the floor would still get wet.

Fri Jun 28, 2024 6:24 pm

This is classic road salt rot, through and through, kicked up from the left-front tire...

Sat Jun 29, 2024 10:05 am

beautiful bus ! congrats

Tue Nov 12, 2024 8:38 pm

Just bought the Hauer Bros. ‘59 panel from the guy who won the auction. Added a battery and a fuel source and it started right up. All lights and even the horn work. Starting to clean it up. Got the brakes done. It’s been parked in a building since 1968. It seems to be all original. 39k miles. Oil change sticker says 35k miles in 1966. Here are some pics. Check back for progress.

Tue Nov 12, 2024 8:54 pm

Joe Caraway wrote:

Awesome! Are those the Hauer brothers in that pic? Cool "Volts Wagon" logo on the front of the other bus! Wonder where that was parked...

PS - Below is the building listed on the title. :)

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.9749972,-94.361322...FQAw%3D%3D