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DubStyle
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Here are a few pics of my 66 RHD. I'm cruising it around on the Island of Terceira for the next couple of years. I(me) narrowed the beam 4", installed CBP... Drops and Disc, Lowered the rear 1 inner spline.
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tbdean
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| Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Any pics of the interior? |
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DubStyle
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:06 am Post subject: |
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It's all the original interior. Black seats, door panels, rubber mats, and white headliner. I am going to be redoing it as soon as I get a respray. Don't want to do it and have to tear it out again. The seats are in good shape but the seams are starting to split.
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bmc350
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| DubStyle wrote: |
| I am going to be redoing it as soon as I get a respray. |
Respray? Looks good to me.
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DubStyle
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The paint on there is about 4 years old. While in the UK it has started to bubble in the Seams and around the Wiper mounts. Besides that the color was matched pretty close but the OG paint in the interior is way off. I figure if I'm gonna own KB for ever and Paint is cheap here it's getting it done. 
Thanks for the comment. 
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my62ragtop
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 6:20 am Post subject: Hey! |
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Thought I recognized that car! Just wanted to say whats up.
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TimAlan
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| Nice ride man!!! I need to get my poor bus on the road... stuff like this inspires me.. |
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DubStyle
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Nice ride man!!! I need to get my poor bus on the road... stuff like this inspires me.. |
If thats the bus in your Av... Just do it! Rat Look buses rock! Is it a Panel?
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actorboy
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Dub I know this is way late but I have always wanted a RHD. Was it hard to get used to and what do you like most about it? |
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sixfootdan
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Dub, I figured out where your base is. You are pretty damm far away. Did you buy that over there?
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DubStyle
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 2:36 am Post subject: |
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Damn never expected anyone to post to this...
actorboy it is the same as a LHD you just sit on the other side. The only thing that sucks is passing on small roads cause you can't see around. But when you are on city streets you can get closer to the curb and squeze through where you won't take a LHD. Swap ya for your Vert! 
MEANIRISHMOFO I bought this car when I was in the UK. I sold a 56 Oval because I wanted another Bus. But I also said before I leave the UK I'm buying a RHD. You know to be different. So with the cash I made on the Oval I bought it and some CBP... Drops with Disc Brakes.
BTW It's for sale or Trade for a 13-23 window bus. 
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I think the Shipping would kill me$$$$
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DubStyle
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| I think the Shipping would kill me$$$$ |
Yeah I'm sure it would be almost as much as the car if not more.
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Unless you soid me the car DIRT cheap, Then I could afford the shipping! What do ya think? 
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DubStyle
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Hey MIMOFO shipping thru the Army is $2000 to Cali. Can't be much more all the way to Hawaii.
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DubStyle
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| Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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Newest pic!!! 2" till the bottom meets the road! 
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NorCalWeekender
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Lookin very nice, DubStyle! Gotta love the RHD...one of these days I'm gonna get myself an Aussie bus over here to Cali and get it goin on!
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DubStyle
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Yeah the 3 years I spent in the UK not one reasonably priced RHD Bus came along so I bought this! Now I am searching for a BUS again.
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| Brotha I can never get enough of looking at your RHD! Buses that are RHD have the doors on the left correct? That is unless they are double doors. |
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DubStyle
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| Brotha I can never get enough of looking at your RHD! Buses that are RHD have the doors on the left correct? That is unless they are double doors. |
Well I thought that too, but seems that depending on what side of the road the passengers got out on the doors where on that side. So if a RHD bus was sent to a country where the drove on the RHS the door were on the right. And of course vise versa.
Speaking of that I almost ended up with a 67 RHD Vert. But I couldn't bring myself to own anythign newer than a 66.
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