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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2013 4:15 pm    Post subject: Can it be saved? Reply with quote

In a orienteering race on Saturday and one of the controls was a "vehicle wreck" This is what we found!

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Think we can save her? Smile

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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2013 4:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anything can be saved with a lot of time and money.
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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2013 4:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

saved? yes worth saving? probaly not since it looks like a undesireable model/year
but it's your time and money so go for it if you want too
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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2013 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

a1fa wrote:
Anything can be saved with a lot of time and money.


this is true, but I would say that that one looks maybe to far gone
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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2013 5:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes it can be saved. Loyds of london will be glad to finance you. Sunk into the ground that much......gotta have tons of rust.
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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2013 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Undesirable year or model? Its got a split windshield doesn't it?
But yeah that one looks like it might be better to find another. But at least pull her out a pull every usable part and panel.
Just realize in ten years you will say I scrapped better buses than what is available today.
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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2013 7:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

pondoras box wrote:
Undesirable year or model? Its got a split windshield doesn't it?
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yup it looks like a late model panel to me which are not high up on the list of most desirable split buses
i am a panel fan but they are problay on the bottom of most buses poeples list
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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2013 7:40 pm    Post subject: Re: Can it be saved? Reply with quote

bjrogers86auto wrote:
Think we can save her? Smile


Maybe -need to see a few more angles. "worth it?" needs a better definition in relation to this bus. More pictures would help. Looks pretty bad... and being from NS... I don't know.
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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2013 8:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like a goner to me. You really only took one pic?
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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2013 11:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Front bumper looks good.
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PostPosted: Sun May 05, 2013 11:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The angle of the pic doesn't help, but it seems like the nose is pointing away... Are there any pillards left ?
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2013 6:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not saying its impossible....however Im sorry to say, you should consider this one done for in my book....unless you just wanna pull off something insane. I can see from the pic there doesnt appear to be any drip rail left in the front and on the passenger side, this door hinges are in the closed position but the door is open and sagging in on itself and worst of all the front drivers side pillar appears to be seperated from itself and the roof.....being buried THAT far into the ground I can only imagine what the lower 12" of that bus looks like....
.....being a fried egg panel, I hate to say this one is about like a black dog at a animal shelter, not likely to be adopted.
but it doesnt have to die for nothing, I see alot of possibly good parts to rescue....Could live on in spirit if nothing else.
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2013 7:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks pretty crusty...
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2013 7:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just. Walk. Away. Smile
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2013 7:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I usually say yes to all can be saved... buuuut looking at the way the nose is saging. It looks like the bottom of the nose is detached and pulled forward, look at the window frames in relation to the top, and the angle of the split frames. The drip rails are gone... On top of that it looks like the rest is pretty crusty, and it's sunken into the ground. The bottom might have returned to mother earth.... Unless it's that red single that the guy dug out that was in pretty good shape. This may be a "pass". Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2013 8:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Please though, snag some more pics of that thing, sides, interior, back etc....I know even though its crusty we love to see pics! Maybe its got some awesome logos on it being a panel.
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2013 9:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You know how you carve your pumpkin and then a few day's later you're too lazy to throw it away and some heat comes and then you see ooze and it's sagging and bulging from it's own top and you try to pick it up and.
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PostPosted: Mon May 06, 2013 6:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Xonemillion here. Good luck picking that thing up. Although they did pick up the sunken norway samba out of the lake, but that water was cold.
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