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Barndoor Mafia
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 9:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think fluffy the kitty was the doing of "TEAM SERIAL KILLERS"!!!!!

And what's up with that 61 Westy Hatch Top........Rocco Segfreddi????

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 9:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Saluzzo- The Westy had no wheel wells so I had to make it disappear really quick. You know what I mean, right? It had a NICE original tent, ambulance fan (mango too), and perfect spoons in it that had to stay with me. I felt like LESTER HAYES of the RAIDERS with that stuff sticking to my hands like I had STICKEM all over them! PORCO DUE!
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 10:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mi dispiache Don Fanucci! I thought you were Rocco Sigfreddi?

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 11:39 pm    Post subject: Knives Reply with quote

Maybe it's an Oregon thing, besides finding little pot pipes, I've found a couple of really big knives within grasping range under the drivers seat in 2 seperate busses I've bought.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 4:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rubber gloves, lots of 'em. What's up with that, Lind???

Best thing? a pair of extra tailights, complete, under the front seat of a '59 kombi I bought for $250.

Wasn't in a bus but just last month we ranacross a 2 foot long double headed dildo laying on the side of the road where we were working. Bet those girls were bummed when they got to their camping site without their friend.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 5:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In my most recent bus, we found a complete new campstove with propane! That was sweet. Also a dartboard in with the spare tire. And a small toy surfboard that I built into a lamp.

In a previous bus, I found an envelope of pictures behind the kick panel. Sadly none were of the bus, but I could tell one of the people was the PO...there was a cylinder head on the TV set! Smile

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 7:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My '61 westy sat for 10 or 12 years before I got it, and when the tow-truck driver was putting the chains on it, he found a craftsman ratchet with an 11mm socket up on top of the rear torsion bar. The thing is rusted solid, but one of these days I'm going to take it into sears, and claim the warranty on it! The ratchet is totally old school....maybe late '60s early '70s? I totally thought it was a pipe when he first pulled it out.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I got my 66 13 window dlux from an "artist" in New Orleans. After driving it back to Florida I started noticing a smell about it. Turns out that the "artist" had skinned an animal to make a rug or whatever and never prepared it right so the smell was actually ROTTING FUR!! I'll never forget that smell.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Found two white tin cans with black writing that were military issue water. They are still unopened to this day. They were in a 60 westy sitting in the parched Arizona desert. The water inside has just got to be foul and rusty as all hell. Imagine all the thirsty plants and animals that could have used that water to survive, but they just couldn't grip the pull tab. Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 6:57 am    Post subject: Re: Knives Reply with quote

fizzbang wrote:
Maybe it's an Oregon thing, besides finding little pot pipes, I've found a couple of really big knives within grasping range under the drivers seat in 2 seperate busses I've bought.

I think the drug thing is pretty common I bought a 66 bus out of Missouri and it had the remains of a joint in the rear ashtray. My buddy scored a nice Hazet round tool kit out of '73 bug that he cleaned out. Go figure that you'd find something like that in a late model bug.
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PostPosted: Sun May 18, 2025 11:50 am    Post subject: Re: strange things found in buses Reply with quote

Strange thing but not found in buses.

It is an 1800s' organ pump but I wanted to post it because it has the same firing order as our engines.

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PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2025 11:27 am    Post subject: Re: strange things found in buses Reply with quote

By far the best for me personally was the complete original 1958 356 Porsche tool roll found in a 1963 23 window walkthru bus. Under a pile of parts between the middle seat and the front seats. As soon as I saw the material I knew what it was, amazingly I owned a 58 356 Cab that needed a tool roll, some things are meant to be!

Also, I had purchased a 21 window with factory safaris, that was sitting at a hotel near Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix. The owner was a pilot, tracking him down between flights was a pain in the a#$. I drove the bus for a few years before I was talked out of it by a Air Force pilot. The first thing he did was have base security check the bus for contraband....sure enough, weed behind the front kick panels and rear door panels. Most likely there long before the airline pilot, certainly wasn't mine Smile
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