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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:43 pm    Post subject: Nice bus, even nicer sister Reply with quote

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) Laughing 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!

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I dig the bus man, let's trade sisters.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

GREAT find!
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can I try my luck with your sister?
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, nice score!
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Beautiful deluxe! Is she single? j/k. Laughing

The pic of the bus in the flowers should be a wallpaper. Nice.


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BUCIOBATISTI wrote:
Can I try my luck with your sister?


Cool
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

croscoe wrote:
Beautiful deluxe! Is she single? j/k. Laughing

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. Smile
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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croscoe wrote:
Beautiful deluxe! Is she single? j/k. Laughing

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. Smile


I've got one. How about some "inspection" shots of your sister...
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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?


You're right, I'll jack, uh, I mean back off since you "beat my post" by 3 minutes...
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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?

og all the way! I love the smell of old german paint!
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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. Embarassed

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. Embarassed Embarassed Glad I didn't dump it on the way home. Smile
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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. Embarassed

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. Embarassed Embarassed Glad I didn't dump it on the way home. Smile


Tell her I need a pressed rear truck bumper. Thank you.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice!!! Congratulations on a great score, I love to read about stories like this.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 Embarassed
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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