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happyhippo
Segapone Wanna-B
Joined: June 22, 2004
Posts: 766
Location: Colorado
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 Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:43 pm Post subject: Nice bus, even nicer sister |
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So...I've told lots of people to keep their eyes peeled for split window buses for me and most have a hard time telling a Euro-van from a Bay from a Split. But my little sister sure knows her stuff! Major PROPS to her!! (Yep, I paid her a finder's fee)  She found the following bus for me this summer on her vacation. It's now in my garage. The VIN puts it at August 1957, but it's definitely 1958 model year as witnessed by the taillights and decklid (which has the remainder of a Denver MotorSports sticker).
This bus is as solid as they come with 3 small non-structural areas in the cargo floor needing patches and 2 pea-shooter holes in the apron needing fixing. There is no rust-through on the body, but there is a bubble on the short rocker. The belly pans are straight and true. All the paint is og with a great patina. That "ugly" front bumper goes away and you can see from the pics that this came with the original front and rear bumpers with trim.
The bus has all the little chrome goodies with it, coat hooks, knobs, gauges, handles, etc. It needs mirrors, a wiper, and a few vent chrome pieces and one og chrome/black logo hubcap, a couple of non-curved windows, new seals, rear seat mounts. There were 2 og interior front door panels and the rear long kick panel, I'll need to hunt down the rest. The engine and trans are wrong, but I have a 36HP to be rebuilt and a split-case trans to be rebuilt and then put in this bus. The sunroof mech is complete including handle. It will need a new top and a new headliner.
It has all 3 original seats though the p.o. had them very nicely reupholstered about 20 years ago--they've never be sat in. Unfortunately, the 4-legged, flat-back middle seat lost its grabbars when this happened.
This is a pretty spectacular bus as it sits. My plans are:
- replace the few missing parts
- buff up the paint
- polish all the aluminum
- install correct motor, trans
- install correct tires 640x15 Firestone bia ply
- fix pea-shooter holes
- find and install correct interior panels
- replace seals
- replace broken glass
- restore sunroof
- maybe re-paint the wheels og color
- roll it baby!
!!!CAUTION!!! Hard-core bus porn follows:
**Moderator note- added 2 reference pics from the gallery since the external web hosting links are now broken**
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Cocoabean
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Joined: January 30, 2006
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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I dig the bus man, let's trade sisters.
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splitpile
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Joined: May 03, 2000
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Location: back to living where hell meets the suface
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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GREAT find!
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BUCIOBATISTI
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Joined: April 17, 2002
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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Can I try my luck with your sister?
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happyhippo
Segapone Wanna-B
Joined: June 22, 2004
Posts: 766
Location: Colorado
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Cocoabean wrote: |
| I dig the bus man, let's trade sisters. |
No chance! She knows of a 21 sitting in a field (if she can just remember which mountain road she saw it on). I'm just glad she's not into the whole bus scene (yet). She just likes to treasure-hunt like I do. Something in the genes.
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croscoe
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Joined: October 23, 2004
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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Beautiful deluxe! Is she single? j/k.
The pic of the bus in the flowers should be a wallpaper. Nice.
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happyhippo
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Joined: June 22, 2004
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Location: Colorado
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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| BUCIOBATISTI wrote: |
| Can I try my luck with your sister? |
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happyhippo
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Joined: June 22, 2004
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Location: Colorado
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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Beautiful deluxe! Is she single? j/k.
The pic of the bus in the flowers should be a wallpaper. Nice. |
She's good with a camera--the picture was at dusk so it's a bit dark.
As for the sis, she's married, but I suppose would reconsider if the dowry included something in a logo'd barndoor. 
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BUCIOBATISTI
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Joined: April 17, 2002
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Location: San Diego, California, USA
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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| happyhippo wrote: |
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Beautiful deluxe! Is she single? j/k.
The pic of the bus in the flowers should be a wallpaper. Nice. |
She's good with a camera--the picture was at dusk so it's a bit dark.
As for the sis, she's married, but I suppose would reconsider if the dowry included something in a logo'd barndoor. |
I've got one. How about some "inspection" shots of your sister...
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Cocoabean
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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Hey guys i called dibbs on the sis, what are you going to do with all these busses man? restore them or leave them og?
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BUCIOBATISTI
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Cocoabean wrote: |
| Hey guys i called dibbs on the sis, what are you going to do with all these busses man? restore them or leave them og? |
You're right, I'll jack, uh, I mean back off since you "beat my post" by 3 minutes...
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happyhippo
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Joined: June 22, 2004
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Location: Colorado
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Cocoabean wrote: |
| Hey guys i called dibbs on the sis, what are you going to do with all these busses man? restore them or leave them og? |
og all the way! I love the smell of old german paint!
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Lind
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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Dayammmm........... nice score.
I bet the rear bumper or the middle seat are worth more than you had to pay for the whole bus.
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happyhippo
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Joined: June 22, 2004
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Location: Colorado
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| Lind wrote: |
Dayammmm........... nice score.
I bet the rear bumper or the middle seat are worth more than you had to pay for the whole bus. |
Funny story about that rear bumper--I had the bus all packed, loaded, and pointed at the highway and there was no rear bumper to be found. There were bumper brackets and splash pans, but no bumper anywhere in sight. I was a bit disappointed, but knew I could like without it. I was looking for my sister so we could go and she was walking around the property where the bus used to be stored a long time ago and managed to locate the bumper in an area that hadn't been searched for parts. I was a bit miffed that she wasn't ready to go since we were due to arrive back home way after 1:00AM as it was! Then she popped her head up from a ravine and had the bumper! Guess I owe her another finder's fee. 
Funny story about the seats too. When I first saw the middle seat (sans grabbars) I figured it was some bay-window thingy that just happened to get reupholstered at the same time the rest of the seats go it. I thought I would just have to get rid of it since it wasn't original to the bus. Glad I didn't dump it on the way home.
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RINC
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Michael Fischer
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:24 am Post subject: |
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| happyhippo wrote: |
| Lind wrote: |
Dayammmm........... nice score.
I bet the rear bumper or the middle seat are worth more than you had to pay for the whole bus. |
Funny story about that rear bumper--I had the bus all packed, loaded, and pointed at the highway and there was no rear bumper to be found. There were bumper brackets and splash pans, but no bumper anywhere in sight. I was a bit disappointed, but knew I could like without it. I was looking for my sister so we could go and she was walking around the property where the bus used to be stored a long time ago and managed to locate the bumper in an area that hadn't been searched for parts. I was a bit miffed that she wasn't ready to go since we were due to arrive back home way after 1:00AM as it was! Then she popped her head up from a ravine and had the bumper! Guess I owe her another finder's fee.
Funny story about the seats too. When I first saw the middle seat (sans grabbars) I figured it was some bay-window thingy that just happened to get reupholstered at the same time the rest of the seats go it. I thought I would just have to get rid of it since it wasn't original to the bus. Glad I didn't dump it on the way home. |
Tell her I need a pressed rear truck bumper. Thank you. |
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cris torlasco
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Location: Delmar, NY/Buenos Aires, Argentina
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:37 am Post subject: |
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Nice!!! Congratulations on a great score, I love to read about stories like this.
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crukab
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:38 am Post subject: |
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Great score, Did it come from Wyoming ? Where are you in Colorado ??
I lived in Boulder-'79-83, GREAT split bus area !!!
I imagine there are a few still tucked away outside those college towns, up in the mountains.
And they don't rust like around here
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UZI
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:00 am Post subject: |
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since no one has asked publicly yet......my wife will kill me if i buy one more bus, how much will it take?
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