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I've already put new headlights on your bus, the rest shouldn't be to hard to do.
Save it!
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EverettB 
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Combinations
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Joined: March 19, 2010
Posts: 286
Location: Massachussets
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 8:57 am Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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| EverettB wrote: |
| Combinations wrote: |
I've already put new headlights on your bus, the rest shouldn't be to hard to do.
Save it!
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According to the rules of internet sales, it is now 99% restored |
you can even mention in the add that it comes with a spare gas tanks and extra tire 
Did you get that bus?
what is the name of that coll color combo? I dig it too bad it wasn't lying on tires!! |
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smoothfinishes
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Joined: March 28, 2008
Posts: 186
Location: Southern Oregon
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 10:46 am Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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Thanks. if someone can add a side its ready to roll online.
It will be extracted shortly. If I had a couple mules I probably could have had it out already.
It is/was a Mouse Gray walk thru.
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RHD Notch
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Joined: April 06, 2007
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Location: Joshua Tree, CA
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 11:58 am Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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| d-rick wrote: |
Another one on its side...bottom side is solid,drivers side is pretty much gone..as in returned back to the earth
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Looks like the tree is growing around the bumper guard and overrider 
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| I am at the point where I hardly want to own anything that isn't original paint. |
| campingbox wrote: |
| I have some other projects I'd like to finish first and I want to drive this bus while I'm working on those to help stay motivated. |
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Manfred58sc
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Joined: October 05, 2009
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| Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2016 8:06 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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Oddly, that has no doubt saved the frame from ruin , a few thousand in Gerson metal and its back in business.
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Squilly
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Location: Steamboat Springs, CO
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2016 8:30 am Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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Finally, I can share what I found you all now that its in the driveway! I came across this '65 SO42 in a small mining town way back in the mountains here in Colorado about 7 months ago. I couldn't find the owner the first time I came across it, so I kept dropping by with my 15 window periodically until I ran into him. He wasn't really willing to let it go but we talked VWs for a while and I let him take my bus out for a drive and walked him through all the work we had done on it. I think this made him realize how much effort it takes to make these nice again and he changed his mind on letting go of it.
Its a relatively solid 1965 that still has the factory weld dimples in the rockers. Has some rust in the cargo floors from the top leaking and other holes here and there, but still so much nicer that what I've started with before.
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crukab
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Joined: December 13, 2002
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Location: Vermont
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2016 9:02 am Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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Oh Yea !! Best thread on the Samba !!!!!! Delivered to Gibraltar ! 
Good job following the #1 rule of Bus Hunting. How hard was the extraction, did all the wheels roll ? How is the interior ?? Great save !
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oakman
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Location: Edge of the Desert, Ca
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2016 9:09 am Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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| crukab wrote: |
Oh Yea !! Best thread on the Samba !!!!!! Delivered to Gibraltar !
Good job following the #1 rule of Bus Hunting. How hard was the extraction, did all the wheels roll ? How is the interior ?? Great save ! |
Great looking Westy! Your bus must have an interesting history. Reminds me of this early 67' I had. Mine had the same nose mount spare too.
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EverettB
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Squilly
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Location: Steamboat Springs, CO
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2016 12:47 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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| crukab wrote: |
Oh Yea !! Best thread on the Samba !!!!!! Delivered to Gibraltar !
Good job following the #1 rule of Bus Hunting. How hard was the extraction, did all the wheels roll ? How is the interior ?? Great save ! |
Extraction was not bad at all. Just moved some junk out of the way and pulled it out. Just had to put the rear 2 tires on, free up a frozen drum, and it was out of there! Interior is mostly complete, its just missing the long cabinet against the wall. This is all I have for interior shots at the moment. Found the original front seats in the back later.
I'll clean it up later to give a better idea of the shape its in. |
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easy e
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2016 1:16 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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Nice score!
GJ = Gibraltar - Neat, I can't remember if I have ever seen a bus delivered there before.
Also 620 = 12-volt system |
I wonder what the story is behind it...
Gibraltar delivery + N. American package
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crofty
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2016 3:21 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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Was the original interior outside of the bus?
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I slept on crofty's tent once. I passed out drunk from two bottles of Everett's brother's wine. |
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EverettB
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2016 3:59 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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| easy e wrote: |
| EverettB wrote: |
Nice score!
GJ = Gibraltar - Neat, I can't remember if I have ever seen a bus delivered there before.
Also 620 = 12-volt system |
I wonder what the story is behind it...
Gibraltar delivery + N. American package |
Tourist Delivery?
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crofty
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2016 4:07 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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and a BN4!
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I slept on crofty's tent once. I passed out drunk from two bottles of Everett's brother's wine. |
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Squilly
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2016 4:56 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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| crofty wrote: |
| Was the original interior outside of the bus? |
No most of it was inside, but it was all over the place inside. Cleaning it out and organizing it a bit helped a lot but also revealed some floor rust. Anyone have the big cabinet that goes along the wall just laying around and headbanger??
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| EverettB wrote: |
Nice score!
GJ = Gibraltar - Neat, I can't remember if I have ever seen a bus delivered there before.
Also 620 = 12-volt system |
I wonder what the story is behind it...
Gibraltar delivery + N. American package |
Tourist Delivery? |
I was thinking that or maybe there was a military base out there. Apparently it went from Gibraltar to Anchorage, Alaska where it acquired the pressed in roof from snow weight. |
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Who.Me?
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2016 1:41 am Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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I was thinking that or maybe there was a military base out there. |
Yes, but British. Big Navy presence until the 1980s (commanding position to control sea traffic in and out of the Mediterranean) plus RAF airfield and Army Baracks.
It's a good starting point for a tour of Southern Spain and North Africa (ferry link to Morocco) and Gib has a number of tax exemptions, so maybe it was shipped direct by someone going on a grand tour who didn't want to pay Spanish import taxes or drive it all the way from northern Europe.
The place is tiny. It's basically a large rock with a town at its base and a peninsula joining it to Spain.
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crofty
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2016 8:31 am Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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That interior looks like its half homemade and half bay window. The z bed you have looks like its out of a bay window.
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| Was the original interior outside of the bus? |
No most of it was inside, but it was all over the place inside. Cleaning it out and organizing it a bit helped a lot but also revealed some floor rust. Anyone have the big cabinet that goes along the wall just laying around and headbanger??
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| easy e wrote: |
| EverettB wrote: |
Nice score!
GJ = Gibraltar - Neat, I can't remember if I have ever seen a bus delivered there before.
Also 620 = 12-volt system |
I wonder what the story is behind it...
Gibraltar delivery + N. American package |
Tourist Delivery? |
I was thinking that or maybe there was a military base out there. Apparently it went from Gibraltar to Anchorage, Alaska where it acquired the pressed in roof from snow weight. |
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I slept on crofty's tent once. I passed out drunk from two bottles of Everett's brother's wine. |
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mtnbus
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| Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 1:37 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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Nice find !! Great bus man, love the front rack.....
All kinds of other goodies too !! |
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ronjonlasvegas
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| Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 3:54 pm Post subject: Re: Today in Bus hunting history... |
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From yesterdays travels.
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It has been five weeks or so since you posted this. When are we going to see the extraction video? We have been patient.
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