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Braukuche
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That poor bus ended up in the wrong hands.
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MrPolak
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Busstom
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| Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2021 3:03 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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Crappy interior panel fitment, rusty door-hinge screws abound (with some new ones sprinkled in), and what looks like rust stains below/around the windows, and possibly water stains on the floor mat. Unload it before it starts to rot real good.
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Braukuche
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2021 6:07 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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Turd alert. Look at picture number 50, hope this is not indicative of the rest of the body work!
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1967-volkswagen-bus-33/
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FarmerBill
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2021 6:23 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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| Looks like that door was used as a backstop for .22 shorts. A lot of .22 shorts. |
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cdennisg
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2021 7:24 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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$110 for a cap, rotor, points, and wires. Wow.
I have known the owner of Euro Union for well over 20 years. That sort of pricing does surprise me a little bit.
Plenty of things stick out with this bus, but right off the bat I notice the chrome cylinder tin on the 1-2 side. Interesting detail.
For what it's worth, my wife grew up in the town where this bus sits. She calls it hell, at least in months other than winter.
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EverettB
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2021 10:27 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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$110 for a cap, rotor, points, and wires. Wow.
I have known the owner of Euro Union for well over 20 years. That sort of pricing does surprise me a little bit.
Plenty of things stick out with this bus, but right off the bat I notice the chrome cylinder tin on the 1-2 side. Interesting detail.
For what it's worth, my wife grew up in the town where this bus sits. She calls it hell, at least in months other than winter. |
Some of those parts prices(!)
I think they took their cost and doubled it.
$40 for some random air cleaner hose that's wrong too when you can buy the right one for $28
https://www.wolfsburgwest.com/cart/DetailsList.cfm?ID=211129627
The hours stated for some of that work seem a bit crazy too...
I'm slow on doing stuff but a shop taking 2 hours to replace the axle boots? WTF.
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MrPolak
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| Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2021 6:19 am Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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Braukuche
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| Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 2:21 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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That kombi went for over $35k with a cargo door that looked like it went through a SWAT team action.
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cdennisg
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| Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 2:50 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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| That kombi went for over $35k with a cargo door that looked like it went through a SWAT team action. |
The condition of which was not hidden from the bidders. What should it have sold for?
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Braukuche
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| Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 4:39 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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| Braukuche wrote: |
| That kombi went for over $35k with a cargo door that looked like it went through a SWAT team action. |
The condition of which was not hidden from the bidders. What should it have sold for? |
Never said it was hidden, just amazed what people will pay for a kombi with that shitty of a level of bodywork. But good on the owner, I doubt he’d get $25k for it here. But here is not BAT.
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Alan Brase
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| Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2021 5:31 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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| Braukuche wrote: |
| cdennisg wrote: |
| Braukuche wrote: |
| That kombi went for over $35k with a cargo door that looked like it went through a SWAT team action. |
The condition of which was not hidden from the bidders. What should it have sold for? |
Never said it was hidden, just amazed what people will pay for a kombi with that shitty of a level of bodywork. But good on the owner, I doubt he’d get $25k for it here. But here is not BAT. |
No doubt BAT is the premium selling spot for some marques/models. Definitely in the eye/ heart of the two high bidders.
I see wildly disparate ending bids for certain models I follow closely, mostly 912's.
This 1967 Kombi was actually quite decent, but a couple places could really have been metal worked MUCH better. It would take me about 2 hours work to make that door bottom only need about 1/4 of the amount of bondo. A lot longer to make the structure (inner door) perfect.
Certainly similar for the driver's side rear wheel house damage.
And yes, it makes one wonder what other messes are completely hidden.
My personal philosophy is to leave a few witness marks, just to show a subsequent nit picker: "yes, it was damaged...how you like my work?"
Is it worth it?
Certainly a better investment than a new ride, with everything plastic and not even able to fix it without dealer machines.
Is it worth it?
It was to one bidder.
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Braukuche
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| Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2021 8:39 am Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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Look at this rusty, bondoed up turd. It’s pretty bad when Kline points it out on a budget engine rebuild receipt.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1967-volkswagen-bus-35/
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Pau
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| Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2021 1:10 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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I am not qualified critizising other's work: I don't know how to weld, I never hold a welder, I was cheated by an "expert" restorer for my first bus. But do you agree this one is just a horrible bus, isn't it?
I don't like flies, but maybe BAT thought that if you looked the fly in pictures 20-23 , you shouldn't see the bad rust under windshields?
Sorry for wasting your time, but I had to say it.
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galexander
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| Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2021 7:29 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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They must have had a LOT of white paint. Good grief.
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Alan Brase
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| Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2021 8:50 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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Yes, wow. Getting closer to the "bring a trailer" name sake.
Like getting the alternator to charge was just a bridge too far? (what's that taped up blue wire?)
And that engine install, wow.
Ought to be against the law to work on it and not make the heaters work. You touch the parts, you own the liability.
I lived in San Diego. Fog every morning, need defrosters.
I sorta thought BAT was trying to weed out the dishonest cars. "Of COURSE it's a bondoed up turd. A given. That's what we thought you wanted.
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Thompson2
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| Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2021 11:18 am Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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Wowsers... it looks like they masked literally nothing... the engine has enough overspray on it that you might be temped to think they were trying to color match it to the body...
and the gas gauge..
and did they fill one of the wiper arm holes or did they just put the paint on so thick it closed it up?
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peecee69
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Braukuche
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| Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2021 12:09 pm Post subject: Re: BAT Buses |
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I wonder how many people will catch the "have to pay off existing loan" part. I wonder how much that existing loan is? Wow. Turd. |
They should fire the guy who accepted this listing. It’s embarrassing.
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