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Lowdown Dirty Rat
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| would anyone believe that a barndoor deluxe brought in the neighborhood of $275-300K? |
Did a deluxe actually get that?  |
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Concept1
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| Let's start a "Barndoors and Barndoor Parts for Sale Whines" thread. |
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I wonder how many Kombis there are left in exisiance? 150? How many are on the road? 50? How many have never been really welded? 10? With the original engine 5?
I'd say it's worth it, but I guess the market will decide.
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Ragtop
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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| BUCIOBATISTI wrote: |
| Let's start a "Barndoors and Barndoor Parts for Sale Whines" thread. |
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I wonder how many Kombis there are left in exisiance? 150? How many are on the road? 50? How many have never been really welded? 10? With the original engine 5?
I'd say it's worth it, but I guess the market will decide. |
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UZI
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Lowdown Dirty Rat wrote: |
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| would anyone believe that a barndoor deluxe brought in the neighborhood of $275-300K? |
Did a deluxe actually get that? |
no one knows for sure but those are numbers i heard from reliable, no BS people close to the source.
i was offered a restored deluxe for $150-165K range.
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Lowdown Dirty Rat
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Hornbecker 52  
Cant think of anything else that would get that.
Unless one of those mystery 51s is very original too?
Or prehaps the Flat 4 one at a stretch? I know that's changed hands fairly recently. |
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Drew Ogden
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| Since you guys are talking about crazy prices, why not bring up the 50 Kombi that Bubba recently sold..... |
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BulletBus
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I didn't get the final price on Bubba's bus, but it was substantial. It would have to be if it were mine. I'd have a tough time letting that one go. But it will be in the company of a lot of rare buses. Probably won't see that one again until the BD round up in 2012, maybe.
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ricekooker
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| Barndoors of this caliber don't come up for sale to often, but if you want to play the game, you have to pay. |
That pretty much sums it up in my opinion. |
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BUCIOBATISTI
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This very Bus back in the mid 1980's, original paint and rust free...
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BUCIOBATISTI
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and another...
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cool old pics...........what happened to the front? im guessing there must have been damage since they put a repro bumper on it? cool bus!
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BUCIOBATISTI
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| cool old pics...........what happened to the front? im guessing there must have been damage since they put a repro bumper on it? cool bus! |
Not a repro bumper, I believe it may be one of those "medium rib" Brazilian fronts. It's right between long rib and short rib. Obviously that's something very easily remedied these days. I have no knowledge of any collision damage. I suspect the primer spots were just covering spots where the paint got thin. Keep in mind that back then stone chips on an original paint nose would be something to hide cause original paint wasn't seen so much as something to preserve but rather a good base for a immanent repaint.
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hugheseum
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thanks for the clarification.........i guess ive never looked at the brazil bumpers that close,are the pressings really just like the bumpers gerson makes?
i saw the round pressed areas and knew there was something strange going on,did they have the foresight to keep the german bumper? are there any old pics of the front before its restoration?
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BUCIOBATISTI
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thanks for the clarification.........i guess ive never looked at the brazil bumpers that close,are the pressings really just like the bumpers gerson makes?
i saw the round pressed areas and knew there was something strange going on,did they have the foresight to keep the german bumper? are there any old pics of the front before its restoration? |
I can't say for sure about the rib corners but I've seen some people mask them off squarely while others make them round when painting them. Have you ever noticed how many different shapes the outer edges of the ribs had on original paint bumpers? Some are super pointy, some are totally round, lots of them are in between. It's all a matter of how they were masked off. Gerson offers beautiful reproductions of both long and short ribbed bumpers. Of course if somebody didn't want a repro, originals do pop up and the people in the know can find them pretty quickly.
There are some more scans of old photographs of the Bus in Eddie's gallery. No doubt about it, it's a damn clean and impressive Bus, hands down one of the nicest Barndoor Kombis I've ever seen anywhere in the World.
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hugheseum
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the pressings on gersons bumpers are not squared like an original and by that im talking about the pressing on the ribs on either side of the liscense plate...........no factory german ones were round like that,yes some of the pointed ends are slightly different but not the squared ones opposite the liscense plate
i bought repro bumpers from gerson,they are very nice (props gerson!) but they are not the same as german,so much so that i almost cut the pressings im talking about out and fabbed correct profiles..........but then i just decided to finish fixing my original
i wonder if gerson used an nos brazilian bumper to use as a template for his repros? maybe that would explain the round center pressings?
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| Since you guys are talking about crazy prices, why not bring up the 50 Kombi that Bubba recently sold..... |
What Bubba you sold it |
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| While it's a nice bus I don't think "nicely restored" would be an accurate term. I know I wouldn't want to drop 80k on a nicely restored bus that had fiberglass in the cargo floor and needed rocker work. If I was gonna drop that kind of dough i'd get Kris's bus and still have enough left over to get an ice cream cone. But I guess it's nicer than my '54 kombi. |
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hugheseum
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i thought it has no rust? how do you know its filled with fiberglass? edit....i finally read the text from the ad.............i rarely read the brokered car ads
sounds like it just has some fiberglass patched in one area........
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| While it's a nice bus I don't think "nicely restored" would be an accurate term. I know I wouldn't want to drop 80k on a nicely restored bus that had fiberglass in the cargo floor and needed rocker work. If I was gonna drop that kind of dough i'd get Kris's bus and still have enough left over to get an ice cream cone. But I guess it's nicer than my '54 kombi. |
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