Today in Bus hunting history...

[cdennisg]

[58euro]

Thanks everyone, super excited to get them both! I'm not really sure what the electrical inlet is on the 63 yet, not really crawled around them and checked them out too much yet. The 63 is light grey though with a Turkis Decklid and Turkis passenger door on it. I did find the og paint light grey decklid and door in the barn however. The 63 came Mcoded with a 1500 engine and hoops and canvas, I was really hoping the hoops and canvas would be in the barn somewhere but no luck.

The extraction was a pain lol. Had a 1968 Truck bed camper blocking them that I tried 2 different trailers that wouldn't fit underneath and tried 2 different trucks which also wouldn't work. Came back day 2 and was able to borrow someone else's trailer to get it pulled out. When it came to pulling them out the 66 was the worst as it was wedged between the other bus and a wooden post. Luckily all that worked out though and was able to get them pulled out without any issues.

Here's you can see how close they really were, only inches between everything. This is when we finally got the camper moved and the wife was pretty happy to get in to them.

[zuggbug]

[Touch Nicks Thing]

Awesome find! Congrats on getting them extracted, thanks for sharing!

[Alan Brase]

[mtnbus]

coolest find in a while !
Nice

[crukab]

[Squilly]

Pretty excited to get to share these on my favorite thread and possibly the most unconventional bus hunting method documented so far...

This started out as a hunt for a 1960 15 Window bus and ended up becoming a 2 bus extraction, the other being a 1962 Walk-thru 23.

I first saw the 15 back in February 2017, but not in person. It actually sorta found me. One of the guys I was living with while at college matched with a girl on Tinder and immediately showed me her profile and jokingly said, “dude, check this girl out. She’s got a bus in her picture so you’d probably like her.” I took his phone and out loud said “holy s**t that looks like an early deluxe.” I was immediately was made fun of for being more interested in the bus but I was able to track down the photographer who took the pictures, messaged her and asked if she would show me where that “old bus” was in some of her pictures if I just paid her the going rate for a photo session. She agreed but insisted that we actually do the photo session… so I drove 3 hours from school to take these silly pictures I didn’t even really want and are totally not my style but whatever. She had me sounding out vowels really slow and kept asking me to run my fingers through my hair, look moody, etc.

After we finished and she had left the owner had just come home, so I introduced myself and told him that am really only there so I could see this bus for myself. So we talk VWs for a while and I finally ask if he’d be willing to sell. He said he’s had it for 20+ years and life has gotten in the way but he wants to finish swapping a roof off of another 23 window he has onto the 15...
“Come back in 3 years and maybe we’ll see.” Here’s what I left with:

Since then I would lose sleep over thinking about this bus at least once a month, depending on how much VW related stuff I was doing. So 2-3 weeks ago I decide I’ll just go out and see if he’s there and can plant the seed again. Drive 5 hours from Steamboat in my syncro doka and he’s not home. I loiter for a bit around this little town and keep checking back in on his place periodically then decide to come back tomorrow so I head back to Colorado to camp.

I head back on Sunday and he’s there. Knock on the door, we talk, look at the doka, look at the 15 again, and talk some more. I ask again if he’d be willing to sell it and he says probably not yet I still might get to it, that kind of stuff. So I went home emtpy handed then a week later he texts me saying he changed his mind. Rented 2 U-Hauls and picked them up a week later!

[cdennisg]

Ho Lee Shit. What a story.
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[mastorna]

The older this thread gets the more random / chances of fate these stories become. Great score and persistence. That 15 is amazing even if it has the radio upside down.
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1962 Type II Kombi Light Gray
1963 Type II Standard Sunroof SWR\BG
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[John Ghia]

Weld the roof back on that 62 and enjoy one of each.
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[d-rick]

that's awesome..that 15 looks killer
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1962 single cab *1/2
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1969 dormobile
1978 sage green Westy
1990 DoKa
2002 Golf TDI

[EverettB]

Killer 15-Window.
I noticed that upside down radio too - that is weird.

So he cut the roof off the 23 so he could swap it over and basically destroyed that Bus because he never did anything?
That's annoying...
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[campingbox]

Nice 15 window!

I would encourage you to be more careful with that pressure washer next time. Patina is fragile.

[wcfvw69]

What a great story. Congrats!

It's amazing how the posts in this thread have slowed down so dramatically over the past 10 years. Finding a bus like that 15 window is clearly becoming more and more difficult.
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[Squilly]

Thanks all!

[BarryL]

Is the red bus as good as it looks all over and under?

[velvetgreen]

epic score on 15 window- looks about perfect patina bus from my screen

[JonL]

What a great story, two killer finds-and great shop too!
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[Squilly]