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peaceful warrior
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Joined: January 22, 2005
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Location: Taoswest, USA
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 Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 2:53 pm Post subject: How lucky can you get? |
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Got an email from a childhood friend today. We attended elementary school and junior high together but have kept in contact all of these 40 plus years.
The email, do you want to buy a bus sitting in my Dad's backyard?
Sure, maybe, can I see some photos. Here is a tid bit of them, but it is a champagne bus and I got it for $500. Pretty stoked.
Don't bother looking up the license plate, it is out of the system and I have already paid for it. 
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Brian
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Location: Oceanside
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cmonSTART
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Joined: July 15, 2014
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Location: NH
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| So were these Champagne buses a deluxe model? I keep reading about them. |
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Wasted youth
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Joined: July 06, 2012
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Location: California's Hot and Smoggy Central Valley
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Dick!  Sweet deal, good thing you kept in touch with that dude! Sunroof? |
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VDubTech
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Location: Syracuse, NY
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The top color doesn't look right for a CE. Is it a '78?
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One photo = good for reference.
10 photos = douchebaggery |
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busdaddy
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Joined: February 12, 2004
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Location: Surrey B.C. Canada, but thinking of Ukraine
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| The top color doesn't look right for a CE. |
35 years in the NM sun does that, none of that green shit grows on it to protect the paint like you and I get 
Nice score PW
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Brian
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35 years in the NM sun does that
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And the pictures were taken with a toaster.
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peaceful warrior
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Joined: January 22, 2005
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Location: Taoswest, USA
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| busdaddy wrote: |
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| The top color doesn't look right for a CE. |
35 years in the NM sun does that, none of that green shit grows on it to protect the paint like you and I get
Nice score PW |
Thanks BD! I am not from NM originally though. It is in sunny CA.
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"Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." Albert Einstein
"Notchboy" says "Man up!"
"Tram" says " My bus is bigger than your bus."
66 13W Deluxe, 68 Westfalia, 87 Syncro.
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peaceful warrior
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Joined: January 22, 2005
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Location: Taoswest, USA
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| Dick! Sweet deal, good thing you kept in touch with that dude! Sunroof? |
Thanks, I thought so too. No sunroof and the dude is a lady...
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"Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." Albert Einstein
"Notchboy" says "Man up!"
"Tram" says " My bus is bigger than your bus."
66 13W Deluxe, 68 Westfalia, 87 Syncro.
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williamM
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Great!!!
AND I think there is a song in there somewhere.
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peaceful warrior
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Great!!!
AND I think there is a song in there somewhere. |
Ya think?
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"Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." Albert Einstein
"Notchboy" says "Man up!"
"Tram" says " My bus is bigger than your bus."
66 13W Deluxe, 68 Westfalia, 87 Syncro.
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karlonwheels
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Location: new yorkish
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SCORE! Congrats. They say the best way to get sweet deals on busses is to own and drive a bus.
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notchboy
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peaceful warrior
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Finally got her home today.
Interior seems correct, albeit dusty.
Correct door panels.
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"Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." Albert Einstein
"Notchboy" says "Man up!"
"Tram" says " My bus is bigger than your bus."
66 13W Deluxe, 68 Westfalia, 87 Syncro.
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pioneer1
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that deal is the thing that we can only dream of... 
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Wasted youth
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Location: California's Hot and Smoggy Central Valley
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...and I see some other cool stuff in the back!  |
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peaceful warrior
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| Wasted youth wrote: |
| ...and I see some other cool stuff in the back! |
Always on the lookout.
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"Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." Albert Einstein
"Notchboy" says "Man up!"
"Tram" says " My bus is bigger than your bus."
66 13W Deluxe, 68 Westfalia, 87 Syncro.
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skills@eurocarsplus
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i have a *PERFECT* ce middle seat kick panel i was going to do evil things to for my own benefit.
if you need it, let me know. i would need a suitable replacement (any color, really) but would hate to destroy this one if you could use it.
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Zebedee
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Location: Maenclochog, Wales
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Not too shabby for a $500 bus. 
I got offered a 69 bay camper for nothing a few years back. It had apparently been sat in the old guys garden for nearly 10 years.
Unfortunately i lost the blokes number (and had no address either) so missed out. It probably got scrapped. 
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Red Fau Veh
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Location: Prescott Az.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 11:57 am Post subject: |
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Snow! I like to see yards with many vw's and snow.
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