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adventurebus
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:37 pm    Post subject: Post your field/barn find pics here! Reply with quote

Hey guys, I've always liked seeing those photos of people pulling busses right as they've been found, like sitting in a barn or behind a tree, out in a field, etc. I'm not sure if some one else has already done this in the bay window section, but i'll give it a try. Here are some of my busses I've bought-
1976 deluxe westy straight from the barn-found, restored, sold
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1978 Champagne from a back yard-found, restored, sold
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Newest find, 1974 deluxe Westy-found, needs restored
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is my barn find. My 1970 VW bus
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here are a couple of my recent acquisitions, within the past 4 months, at the locations I got them.
78 Hardtop Sunroof Deluxe Automatic.
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69 Sundial with Adventurewagen top. That is me and my wife on the left, the caretaker of the property on the right, and a friend of the owner on the far right.
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78 Westy & 67 bus I got in a trade for a Ford Exploder.
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I also will be picking up a 64 panel, but I cannot get the photos off of my cell phone.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How I found her

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She Cleaned up nice

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Dang, that is hardcore! How long did it take to winch it up that way?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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How I found her

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She Cleaned up nice

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those turn sigs are trippy...off a bug? not my style, but whatever works
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:02 am    Post subject: Re: Post your field/barn find pics here! Reply with quote

adventurebus wrote:
Hey guys, I've always liked seeing those photos of people pulling busses right as they've been found, like sitting in a barn or behind a tree, out in a field, etc. I'm not sure if some one else has already done this in the bay window section, but i'll give it a try. Here are some of my busses I've bought-
1976 deluxe westy straight from the barn-found, restored, sold
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1978 Champagne from a back yard-found, restored, sold
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Newest find, 1974 deluxe Westy-found, needs restored
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You don't happen to be from the Quad Cities do you?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

From this: Crying or Very sad
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To this: Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've had a ton, but this one I wish I'd kept.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sat in a field in Montana next to a barn for a few years before I bought it. Decent shape overall to start. SN# 1121... very early in the '72 year production. CB #76 stamped on the pancake! An old, tired dawg. The best kind. Cool

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Out and about more now after two years of love and some spare change. Will be fully restored by end of summer 2012 I hope... just in time to disappear into the mountains when the apocalypse hits. Laughing

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Found him in a scrapyard. Sitting up on blocks for people to pull parts off of him.

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Scrapyard man taking it off the blocks so we can load it on the tow truck.

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Ready to go home.

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After a lot of tlc! Very Happy

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I'm currently driving it and working on it at the same time. I work on it a couple days then drive it a couple days! Very Happy That way I don't get bummed that I can't drive it and also don't get burnt out on just doing nothing but working on it! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

as found-
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Not to much out side damage (except front) a little rust, very solid inside.
lucky - price was under $650 rebuild a bit more.... plus dual 40 carbs.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

sneakyjack wrote:
as found-
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between -
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Not to much out side damage (except front) a little rust, very solid inside.
lucky - price was under $650 rebuild a bit more.... plus dual 40 carbs.


do u have any interior pics to show?
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Found this in Northpole and am really tempted to make it mine.
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It's a '68 crossover Sundial camper unfortunatly it has been gutted.

But...temtped.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Found this in Northpole and am really tempted to make it mine.
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It's a '68 crossover Sundial camper unfortunatly it has been gutted.

But...temtped.


you should totally go for it!! Very Happy

at least do it a favor and save it from that tree...
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool thread.



Here's where we found her, under a tree. She had been sitting for 5 years. Took this photo right after we shook hands with PO.

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And here she is after we pulled her out, loaded her up. Ready to go home.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Found these busses while camping/fishing in Northern Ontario in Temagami at the Matabichuan Lodge (actually, very rustic fishing cabins).They are quite a ways back in the bush were well used/abused work trucks.

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I have no desire what-so-ever to save these guys. Too far gone and too far away. I did not even take a souvenir. It would have felt like taking a dead guys lighter.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Millennium Falcon wrote:
Found these busses while camping/fishing in Northern Ontario in Temagami at the Matabichuan Lodge (actually, very rustic fishing cabins).They are quite a ways back in the bush were well used/abused work trucks.

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It would probably be best to just let them rust in peace!

Sad though Sad
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