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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 11:37 pm    Post subject: Patina'd PGSG Reply with quote

Hi all

I have attached a picture of a bus I am totally in awe of. Very Happy

I desperately would love to find out more on this specific bus
Can anyone tell me if it's ever been featured in a magazine or is there any threads about it ?

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 6:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is Festus Blowtorch. Ex church bus from NC. I think Chump Change Customs built it.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 7:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool

Thanks so much I'll dig around !
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 8:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dankp wrote:
Cool

Thanks so much I'll dig around !


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This is a nice bus. Festus Blowtorch, you say? Interesting. Post up anything you find out about it, please.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 8:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Will do !

If anyone could help
I'm just about to start a very unique project similar to festus blowtorch though it's 63 small rear hatch so not as early
What I want to know is how the exterior patina and rust would have been treated and clear preserved ?
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 8:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Saw it at Kelly Park this year. Sorry, no pics.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 9:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pics

http://s23.photobucket.com/user/Fo-runna/library/Festus%20Blowtorch?sort=2&page=1

Built and owned by Chump Change Customs out of Nor Cal, logo'd and 1 of 3 out there I believe (other 2 are panels if I remember correctly). I think his user name on here is CCC.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 9:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 10:07 am    Post subject: bad ass Reply with quote

Some would say an ugly hump of rusty shit-

I say better than the Mona Lisa..

ps Great name too!
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 2:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Derek Waycaster wrote:
That is Festus Blowtorch. Ex church bus from NC. I think Chump Change Customs built it.

It was an electrical company work vehicle; og from Hickory , NC.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 7:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

StockNazi wrote:
Derek Waycaster wrote:
That is Festus Blowtorch. Ex church bus from NC. I think Chump Change Customs built it.

It was an electrical company work vehicle; og from Hickory , NC.

I stand corrected sir. Badass bus either way.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Derek Waycaster wrote:
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Derek Waycaster wrote:
That is Festus Blowtorch. Ex church bus from NC. I think Chump Change Customs built it.

It was an electrical company work vehicle; og from Hickory , NC.

I stand corrected sir. Badass bus either way.
I still regret not buying that bus for 700 bucks.

The rusty roof scared me off.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Doug, your area is just the "source" for cool looking patina Bus's. That's what attracted me to the "Wolf" when I saw it. Roof repair is tricky, just reroofed a 59 sc...
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 7:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey Manfred,

I don't know about our area being "the source" for patina buses; most of the buses that are found in my area are being consumed by the earth.

I think I would rather be hunting in your drier climate for sure.

Here is a pic I took of the 56 in the chicken coop; you can see the rust around the driprail.

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The 66ish sundial in front of that bus was super solid and a nice bus; asking 2500 at the time
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hate it when people call rusty metal "patina."
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 5:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I consider rusty metal patina until it is rusted through; holes are not patina.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That reminds me: many years ago, I was at Bug-o-rama, southeast of Sacramento, when I saw an old rusty bus with, I am pretty sure, bullet holes in the body. I spoke with the man who had been driving it and he said that he had found it abandoned under a grove of redwood trees near Santa Cruz, covered with debris from the trees. This bus was solid rust. I take it that bullet holes are not patina, either. Laughing
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