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icekoffee
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 Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:05 am Post subject: The Double-Turd |
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The Story of the Double-Turd
Well I have been wanting to do this for quite a while. I purchase a double cab. I have had a few single cabs a 56 that my brother now own, and my two current ones a rough daily driver 60 and a nice 66 daily.
Here are the 60 and 66 daily drivers i currently own
Me and the fam... one sleeping and not focusing on the pic...
well fast forward, I am now married anf have 3 children... all in one year. (children are our 3 dogs... two boston terriers and a boston terrier -australian cattle dog mix) Well not i need something bigger... something where my dog doesnt sit on my lap with the head out the window or rest his head on the shifter. So i thought maybe a bus would be coll but its hard to haul the scooters in a bus. So double it is.
Not being a rich man, (both my wife and I work for the public school system) I cannot affort to buy a nice restored double.... *enter the Double-Turd* Plus its better to save one that someone else might not take the time to work on...
The Double is an UO delivered bus (New Orleans) with only two M codes on it... pretty plain jane. 428 (North American export package including ?) and 043 (Preparation for Swiss license requirements)
BTW how do you tell the production date?
Day One... dropped off at the shop. Cleaned up the shop and moved my 66 standard bus into stoage so the double could go in for work.
Here is is dropped off in the driveway...
Needs a little rocker work on the driver side
Lower dogleg work
The worse of the rear corners
A couple holes int the bed
Tailgate looks to have the most damage of all the gates
Mmm bondo...
Woot actually have everything for the rear seat
Crunchy... ugly but it can be saved. I already have a nose in storage waiting for something like this to come along...
floors have bad spots... thinking i may splurge and buy new floors for the whole thing. Looks like it had a gas heater at one time.
not too bad here... doesnt feel like the previously pictured bondo section goes down into the rocker area.
Here are a couple over view shots
Now to move my standard out of the garage to make room for the double...
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icekoffee
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Day One part Two
In the shop after a lot of moving vws
Broke off some bondo... actually solid under there just bead down... and yes that is bondo on the gas door lol
funky green here i come... now to make my shopping list
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Dewayne 
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Congrates on the purchase! You'll love the DC... 
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BulliBill
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Congrats Andrew!
I agree, you'll love the Double-Cab once you get her healthy. Super functional, very cool and realatively rare and collectible! I love my '59 and wouldn't sell it for the world. Maybe we'll see those Bice bumpers from my '59 DC on your DC someday?
Best of luck getting her healthy and road-worthy again and I'm looking forward to seeing it at BNNTA?
Bill Bowman
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rjonas
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Glad to see it's in good hands. A friend of mine told me about a d-cab pictured on a CL add "trailer for sale" just a couple of days ago. Bet this is the one. Looks complete minus engine although a bit ruff. Definately worth the effort. How's the underside? Bottom of gates?
Congrats. Hey, I have a '66 MO truck plate for you if you want.
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KWZ
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Awesome score. I am a huge fan of '66-'67 big window, funky vent trucks. (Someone has to be.) I love that thing.
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icekoffee
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| Awesome score. I am a huge fan of '66-'67 big window, funky vent trucks. (Someone has to be.) I love that thing. |
I dont mind the big window and funky vents... my green scab is a 66 and rocks them quite nicely  its going to take some work to get her where she needs to be... but im in no real hurry lol dont have to have it on the road to get to work or anything
funky vents and big window on the scab
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Glad to see it's in good hands. A friend of mine told me about a d-cab pictured on a CL add "trailer for sale" just a couple of days ago. Bet this is the one. Looks complete minus engine although a bit ruff. Definately worth the effort. How's the underside? Bottom of gates?
Congrats. Hey, I have a '66 MO truck plate for you if you want. |
thats how i saw it too lol it was on an ad for a car trailer for like 1600 buck or something like that. I may hit you up on the plate sometime roy thanks
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Congrats Andrew!
I agree, you'll love the Double-Cab once you get her healthy. Super functional, very cool and realatively rare and collectible! I love my '59 and wouldn't sell it for the world. Maybe we'll see those Bice bumpers from my '59 DC on your DC someday?
Best of luck getting her healthy and road-worthy again and I'm looking forward to seeing it at BNNTA?
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oh i will be there bill... may be a few seasons before the dcab makes it though lol
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60DoubleTurd
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Nice score but the OG double turd has been built for some time now.
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icekoffee
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| 60DoubleTurd wrote: |
| Nice score but the OG double turd has been built for some time now. |
lol nice name
you have the double door turd this is the double cab turd
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icekoffee
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well its winter and time to finally start on this project. I picked up a new nose from a 67 bus that was rolled early in its life. So i have a nose and good front floor for the double. It also has a walkthrough section that is pretty temping but i am a little reluctant to do to the truck.... what do you guys think?
I also made my first order of gerson green panels for the bus:
lower cargo door repair section
2 innter rockers
short drivers rocker
rear pillar left
rear pillar right
rocker below third door
rocker behind third door
rocker under rear window
I was wanting to get the rear passenger section from cab to rear corner but bustoration.com was out of those... waiting list here i come
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MrBusCo
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Yes!
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BulliBill
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Oh! I disagree!!
Don't make it a "hacked-in" walk-thru! Keep that DC stock-ish. Someone else someday, probably long in the future, is gonna have to straighten that back out. As long as you're asking for our opinions, I say leave the bulkheasd alone! It's your Bus, your decision.
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jeromeaircooled
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It's your bus, but I am not a big fan of walkthrough double cabs. The bench seat is cool. Yer lady can sit close when she wants. Plus passenger side split walkthrough seats aren't all that comfortable. Plus it is nice to be able to seat six if you need to. I could go on and on. I am not a purist, but this is one hack I just don't like.
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MConstable
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Big no from me too on the walkthru, and I'm not a purist either.
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Your choice, but I do agree that bench seats are way more comfy than walk-throughs...
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krisbeetle
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| I also prefer bench, don't know why people like walk through so much. Good luck with the project. |
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| I also prefer bench, don't know why people like walk through so much. |
So you can get to the kids when they need a spank on the bottom!  
I'd give the walkthrough a miss too, though.
It's a structural member and if you cut it out you have to make it up elsewhere.
You may as well put the walkthrough section away in the back of your garage and either sell it to someone who wants one or use it on a future project that someone has already hacked the bulkhead out of.
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