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Barndoor Mafia Il Capo

Joined: August 23, 2001 Posts: 6195 Location: EUSKAL HERRIA
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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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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BUCIOBATISTI Samba Member

Joined: April 17, 2002 Posts: 6969 Location: San Diego, California, USA
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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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! _________________ Please check us out on Instagram at @holygrailgarage
That's the best place to see the latest things we are up to as well as catch an occasional sneak peek of our latest car and parts listings! |
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Barndoor Mafia Il Capo

Joined: August 23, 2001 Posts: 6195 Location: EUSKAL HERRIA
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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Mi dispiache Don Fanucci! I thought you were Rocco Sigfreddi?
Saluzzo, la mano nera!
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Mah Che Cazzo Voy Di Piu!!!!
-Cosa Nostra!!! |
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fizzbang Samba Member

Joined: September 07, 2003 Posts: 199 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 11:39 pm Post subject: Knives |
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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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volksaddict Samba Member
Joined: August 19, 2003 Posts: 1753
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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 4:56 am Post subject: |
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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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NorCalWeekender Samba Member

Joined: April 13, 2000 Posts: 6536 Location: East Bay, CA
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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 5:27 am Post subject: |
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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!
-Taylor _________________ 9th Owner of a 1971 Tintop Westy
"Eventually, we sold to a guy for $500 who towed it away to live in it in his parents' driveway. We didn't think it would ever avoid the junk heap on that day." -The 3rd Owner, 1995 |
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rusbus Samba Member

Joined: August 27, 2003 Posts: 790 Location: Maryland
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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 7:49 am Post subject: |
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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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PIOMAC Samba Member

Joined: September 25, 2002 Posts: 89 Location: Clearwater, FL
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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:05 am Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Chino
"I'ld rather be happy and poor then have it all and still want more!" |
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wickedwater Samba Member
Joined: July 28, 2003 Posts: 614
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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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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.  |
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15 windowdelux Samba Goober

Joined: February 06, 2001 Posts: 432 Location: Hastings, Nebraska
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 6:57 am Post subject: Re: Knives |
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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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BarryL  Samba Member

Joined: November 01, 2004 Posts: 15092 Location: Casa de Oro, California
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Posted: Sun May 18, 2025 11:50 am Post subject: Re: strange things found in buses |
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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.
Webhost remove if inappropriate. |
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Douglas Denlinger Samba Member

Joined: May 23, 2003 Posts: 1402 Location: Arizona's version of the east coast
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2025 11:27 am Post subject: Re: strange things found in buses |
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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  _________________ Transporter Restorations
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