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PostPosted: Fri Mar 26, 2021 2:15 pm    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 26, 2021 6:26 pm    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

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Saw this humdinger on COUB TV last night.
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Screenshots is all I could get.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 26, 2021 6:54 pm    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

Here’s the YouTube it’s from. My kid keeps showing it to me.

https://youtu.be/ECkSBEkGCGw
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 26, 2021 8:46 pm    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

bobrk wrote:
Here’s the YouTube it’s from. My kid keeps showing it to me.

https://youtu.be/ECkSBEkGCGw

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2021 6:40 am    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

semi-interesting. I had to chuckle at the rendition of one "patina'd" rusty black over orange one. Ya couldn't drive that long over any American pot-holed road.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2021 8:09 am    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

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bobrk wrote:
Here’s the YouTube it’s from. My kid keeps showing it to me.

https://youtu.be/ECkSBEkGCGw

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yup
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2021 6:23 pm    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

bobrk wrote:
Busstom wrote:
bobrk wrote:
Here’s the YouTube it’s from. My kid keeps showing it to me.

https://youtu.be/ECkSBEkGCGw

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yup

It sure looked real but now I see the same pine trees repeating. CGI sure has gotten realistic.

After watching Peter Rabbit I had to remind myself bunnies don't wear coats.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 8:11 pm    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

BarryL wrote:
bobrk wrote:
Busstom wrote:
bobrk wrote:
Here’s the YouTube it’s from. My kid keeps showing it to me.

https://youtu.be/ECkSBEkGCGw

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yup

It sure looked real but now I see the same pine trees repeating. CGI sure has gotten realistic.

After watching Peter Rabbit I had to remind myself bunnies don't wear coats.


After reading your comment, I had to look up and watch the Chemical Brothers "Star Guitar" music video.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 1:12 am    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

Saw this at our local show a few years ago.

Couldn't work out what was going on with the front end on it. It doesn't curve correctly. The door hinges are weird too and the front rain gutter looks like it was cut to size with a grinder. Sad

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The bus is owned by a franchise in the UK. Seems like the company has franchises in multiple countries. You get the bus as part of the franchise. Buses from other franchises look more correct, but most seem to be bays.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 2:15 am    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

Sweet bumper guards & button down sunroof.
Is that dried caulk splooge squeezing out at the top / front of the A-pillar?
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 2:19 am    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

looks like a bay with split panel grafted on...
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 2:25 am    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

finster wrote:
looks like a bay with split panel grafted on...


I wondered that, but if so; they did a lot of work to the rear end too...

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easy e wrote:

Is that dried caulk splooge squeezing out at the top / front of the A-pillar?


I think that's the end of an led strip that's stuck along the side under the gutter.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 7:34 am    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

Who.Me? wrote:
finster wrote:
looks like a bay with split panel grafted on...
I wondered that, but if so; they did a lot of work to the rear end too...

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probably originally a Brazilian bus with a bay front, and a small hatch back with a big window. Look at the cab door and dogleg.
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PostPosted: Fri May 07, 2021 6:07 pm    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

Saw this on COUB TV last night.
Starts off with the Honda Mini-Trail 50 then slowly pans back.
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Then final whole stack of four vehicles.
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All have people in them.
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PostPosted: Sat May 08, 2021 9:40 am    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

BarryL wrote:
Saw this on COUB TV last night.
Starts off with the Honda Mini-Trail 50 then slowly pans back.
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Then final whole stack of four vehicles.
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All have people in them.


That was an advert for a payday loans company in the UK a couple of years ago.
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PostPosted: Sat May 08, 2021 6:17 pm    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

Who.Me? wrote:
That was an advert for a payday loans company in the UK a couple of years ago.

Thanks. I'm usually the last one to parties.
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PostPosted: Sat May 08, 2021 10:21 pm    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

BarryL wrote:
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That was an advert for a payday loans company in the UK a couple of years ago.

Thanks. I'm usually the last one to parties.

We always called that "fashionably late" Wink
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 12:56 am    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

From this link posted by Sooonice...

https://www.usedvictoria.com/all/37297952

in the 'Today in bus hunting thread'...

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9643280#9643280

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Stretched midsection modification in Fiberglas done in the 60's for an exploration company.
Aluminum under carraige .
Hydraulics to lift van 12″ off the ground.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2021 2:30 pm    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

I'm not sure if this has been posted earlier in the thread, but this is apparently located in McMinnville, Oregon.
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I found it doing an image search for this Barndoor boat.
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Edit: Here is a link to more pictures of the boat
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2021 2:33 pm    Post subject: Re: Freaks, Frankenbuses and other Works of Art Reply with quote

I think maybe the McMinville bus is gone now. I was there a decade ago when we drove by.
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