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Sugarbear
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Joined: March 19, 2009
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Location: Florida
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Free when im living in my bus 
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| What's your cost for your time and rent? Lol.... |
they are all hagglers and i have not mastered that skill yet.
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toddb_67
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Joined: November 28, 2003
Posts: 1313
Location: Hansville, WA
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Be careful keeping junkyard buses a secret. They go fast because the junk yards crush cars based on how much money in scrap metal they will get. And since buses are heavy, they tend to get crushed first for the scrap metal money. So if we VW lovers get there first and strip off the good parts the yards will likely keep the buses around longer until they are totally stripped. |
really? seems to me they are very light for their size- consider that even a little cooper mini weighs more than a bus! |
Actually a bus weighs about 4500 lbs compared to a mini cooper which weights 2350 lbs. I got the scrap metal information from a junkyard owner, Just sayin'.
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1971 Super Beetle Convertible (sold) http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=582365&highlight=
1970 Squareback "Savanna" (sold)
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1974 Karmann Ghia- current project, 1967cc engine. https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=775207
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Wildthings
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Joined: March 13, 2005
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Actually a bus weighs about 4500 lbs compared to a mini cooper which weights 2350 lbs. I got the scrap metal information from a junkyard owner, Just sayin'. |
The owners manual pretty clearly gives the weight for a station wagon as just over 3000#. The specs I found for a Mini are just a little less at 2550-2750#.
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Blaubus
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Joined: October 25, 2003
Posts: 5153
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Wildthings wrote: |
| toddb_67 wrote: |
| Actually a bus weighs about 4500 lbs compared to a mini cooper which weights 2350 lbs. I got the scrap metal information from a junkyard owner, Just sayin'. |
The owners manual pretty clearly gives the weight for a station wagon as just over 3000#. The specs I found for a Mini are just a little less at 2550-2750#.
http://tinyurl.com/23rpwvr |
my deluxe doesnt weigh that much. scrap yard scale says 2720. my reg says 2888. depends on the year i guess |
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Kirk
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Joined: December 05, 2003
Posts: 5487
Location: North Texas
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If I find a bus in a junkyard, I buy the entire thing as cheap as I can. Take it home, clean it, take what I need and sell the rest (complete) here on the samba. 11 bays this way and counting.
Save the bays!
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Sugarbear
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Joined: March 19, 2009
Posts: 184
Location: Florida
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| Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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Thats actually a really good idea.. one i will start doing!
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BUSBOSS
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Joined: January 21, 2009
Posts: 2161
Location: Northern California
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Found this today. Nearly complete weekender interior. It also has the hard to find tin top rear headache closet. Although it has been cut up in several places for speakers.
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