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DiyDoIDoThis
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 Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2025 10:56 am Post subject: Looking for a bus for a proposal |
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| I have been dating my girlfriend for a little over 4 years and I have been thinking about how to propose to her. I'll start by saying I am an avid car guy and have been my whole life oil runs in my vains. From working on them driving them, looking at them everything about them. That being said she is my favorite person to share my passion for cars with and she has grown to like cars herself, not quite the same as me but she has cars loves some of her favorites being the T1 and T2 VW bus along with the nissan Figaro. Now to my point haha, I am currently in the process of getting a ring and I want to propose and do something she would never expect and I want it to be special. I want to drive her around in a VW bus and take her to the park where we had our first date which was watching the sunrise at a park on a hill overlooking a small airport. Here is the problem I don't have a vw bus and I don't know anyone that does. It also seems like there is a rental for one locally but only for photo shoots where they bring the car to you. So I'm reaching out to this community to see if I can find someone or find someone through someone who might be able to help me. I am 22 years old and have a perfect driving record and have been driving stick since I had my license. In fact I bought my self a manual transmission car before I had my license. That being said I would be extremely careful with your vehicle and would love to talk to anyone that can help. I love my girl more than I can express and want to give her the proposal she deserves! For reference I live in the Cincinnati ohio area. Feel free to pm! |
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KTPhil
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2025 2:10 pm Post subject: Re: Looking for a bus for a proposal |
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https://www.thesamba.com/vw/clubs/index.php
Filter for Ohio and look for nearby cities/towns.
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DanM
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2025 3:02 pm Post subject: Re: Looking for a bus for a proposal |
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My unsolicited advice: Spend the ring money on a bus. While fixing it up, ask your girlfriend to help you bleed the brakes a few times - if she sticks around, she's the one. THEN start saving for a ring - if she bails before you get a ring, then you'll have a bus, thousands of dollars in savings, AND you'll be single.  |
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pondoras box
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2025 3:46 pm Post subject: Re: Looking for a bus for a proposal |
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| DanM wrote: |
| My unsolicited advice: Spend the ring money on a bus. While fixing it up, ask your girlfriend to help you bleed the brakes a few times - if she sticks around, she's the one. THEN start saving for a ring - if she bails before you get a ring, then you'll have a bus, thousands of dollars in savings, AND you'll be single. |
This right here, if she wants to marry you then a stone that isn’t worth what they charge you won’t matter. A bus will bring you memories an engagement ring is rarely worn after the first year of marriage.
But if you really want this experience maybe pay someone to chauffeur you on your date, probably a higher probability of happening then someone turning over the keys to their pride and joy.
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BonTonRoulet
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2025 3:51 pm Post subject: Re: Looking for a bus for a proposal |
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| pondoras box wrote: |
| DanM wrote: |
| My unsolicited advice: Spend the ring money on a bus. While fixing it up, ask your girlfriend to help you bleed the brakes a few times - if she sticks around, she's the one. THEN start saving for a ring - if she bails before you get a ring, then you'll have a bus, thousands of dollars in savings, AND you'll be single. |
This right here, if she wants to marry you then a stone that isn’t worth what they charge you won’t matter. A bus will bring you memories an engagement ring is rarely worn after the first year of marriage. |
Yeah, but if he buys a really nice engagement ring and she really loves him, she'll happily sell the engagement ring after the wedding to help buy a bus "for us", right?
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Glenn
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2025 3:51 pm Post subject: Re: Looking for a bus for a proposal |
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| an engagement ring is rarely worn after the first year of marriage. |
That's not my observation.
After 42 years, my wife wears hers everyday, with some exceptions. On our 40th I asked he if she wanted a larger one and she said she'd pass, the one she has is just fine, so I got her earrings.
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pondoras box
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2025 3:56 pm Post subject: Re: Looking for a bus for a proposal |
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| Glenn wrote: |
| pondoras box wrote: |
| an engagement ring is rarely worn after the first year of marriage. |
That's not my observation.
After 42 years, my wife wears hers everyday, with some exceptions. On our 40th I asked he if she wanted a larger one and she said she'd pass, the one she has is just fine, so I got her earrings. |
That’s awesome! But I think you might be the outlier here.
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1961 23 Window (Bobo)
1965 11 Window (Zelda). https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=563183
1965 13 Window (Lucas)
1957 Oval ragtop
1960 hardtop
1964 hardtop
1965 hardtop (Arschloch)
1973 standard bug (Dirty Gertie)
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EverettB
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2025 4:23 pm Post subject: Re: Looking for a bus for a proposal |
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| DanM wrote: |
| My unsolicited advice: Spend the ring money on a bus. While fixing it up, ask your girlfriend to help you bleed the brakes a few times - if she sticks around, she's the one. THEN start saving for a ring - if she bails before you get a ring, then you'll have a bus, thousands of dollars in savings, AND you'll be single. |
I don't know how much you guys are paying for rings but you can't buy a Bus for ring money.
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CanStan
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2025 4:31 pm Post subject: Re: Looking for a bus for a proposal |
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| EverettB wrote: |
| DanM wrote: |
| My unsolicited advice: Spend the ring money on a bus. While fixing it up, ask your girlfriend to help you bleed the brakes a few times - if she sticks around, she's the one. THEN start saving for a ring - if she bails before you get a ring, then you'll have a bus, thousands of dollars in savings, AND you'll be single. |
I don't know how much you guys are paying for rings but you can't buy a Bus for ring money. |
I could easily buy a ring for the money I told her I spent on the Bus. |
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pondoras box
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2025 4:34 pm Post subject: Re: Looking for a bus for a proposal |
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One of my coworkers just dropped 30K
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Looking for anything from Hal Casey Motors out of Hamburg New York, from license plate surrounds to matchbooks.
1961 23 Window (Bobo)
1965 11 Window (Zelda). https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=563183
1965 13 Window (Lucas)
1957 Oval ragtop
1960 hardtop
1964 hardtop
1965 hardtop (Arschloch)
1973 standard bug (Dirty Gertie)
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=804912
1988 Cabriolet VR6 conversion |
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Glenn
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2025 4:42 pm Post subject: Re: Looking for a bus for a proposal |
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| That’s awesome! But I think you might be the outlier here. |
Come to suburban Long Island, every woman drives a huge suv and wears her ring.
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| I could easily buy a ring for the money I told her I spent on the Bus. |
I see what you did there 
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| I don't know how much you guys are paying for rings but you can't buy a Bus for ring money. |
I bet you can get this bus cheaper.
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BulliBill
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2025 7:51 am Post subject: Re: Looking for a bus for a proposal |
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Hopefully the original poster will locate a nearby Bus owner to drive them around on the "proposal date". I doubt that anyone with a nice Split Bus will hand over the keys of their pride and joy to someone they don't know and hope that it'll all work out. I wouldn't. But I'd probably chauffeur them a bit to make the proposal interesting and memorable. Good luck to you both!
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staceyz
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2025 9:38 am Post subject: Re: Looking for a bus for a proposal |
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I had someone rent my 58 Mango for a wedding proposal... I drove the bus to a certain location near the beach.., parked it..., The proposer had already filled the bus with balloons and flowers, .. he made a date with his girlfriend to go for a walk along the ocean, and she likes old buses, so he told her , they should go walk by the old bus parked up ahead, .. he opened the side door, pulled out the flowers and handed her a ring... (I just kind of hid off in the distance...)
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BonTonRoulet
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2025 12:15 pm Post subject: Re: Looking for a bus for a proposal |
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Why settle for just a bus when they could potentially start a family with a camper?!
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2025 1:30 pm Post subject: Re: Looking for a bus for a proposal |
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| DanM wrote: |
| My unsolicited advice: Spend the ring money on a bus. While fixing it up, ask your girlfriend to help you bleed the brakes a few times - if she sticks around, she's the one. THEN start saving for a ring - if she bails before you get a ring, then you'll have a bus, thousands of dollars in savings, AND you'll be single. |
It's all about the red flags.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2025 3:46 am Post subject: Re: Looking for a bus for a proposal |
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My first date with my wife was for an oil change on her Plymouth. When she asked for a ring, she still hasn’t forgiven me for the set of Kolbenschmidts, and that was 40 years ago
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