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PostPosted: Mon Oct 09, 2017 8:33 am    Post subject: Re: Help Identifying found bus in Northern Ontario Canada Reply with quote

that bus was for sale on kijiji a month or two back complete and had already been pulled out of the woods- so i am confused
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 09, 2017 8:43 am    Post subject: Re: Help Identifying found bus in Northern Ontario Canada Reply with quote

I highly doubt it. It is on private land 5 miles back in the Bush with only atv trails to the area. I know the owner personally. And was given the bus a month ago.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 10, 2017 7:53 am    Post subject: Re: Help Identifying found bus in Northern Ontario Canada Reply with quote

Cool find! Wherebouts in Northern Ontario?

Good luck with the extraction!
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 10, 2017 1:58 pm    Post subject: Re: Help Identifying found bus in Northern Ontario Canada Reply with quote

you are right my bad was thinking of a very similar 63' panel that showed up here a while back from ontario

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 4:24 pm    Post subject: Re: Help Identifying found bus in Northern Ontario Canada Reply with quote

Heading up on Sunday. Plan is front nose with bumper, 2 front doors
side cargo doors with B Posts, Possibly rear hatch. Anything else to grab/cut out? Probably last time up there.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 6:05 pm    Post subject: Re: Help Identifying found bus in Northern Ontario Canada Reply with quote

Marleybus wrote:
Heading up on Sunday. Plan is front nose with bumper, 2 front doors
side cargo doors with B Posts, Possibly rear hatch. Anything else to grab/cut out? Probably last time up there.


I'd grab every part you can, sheet metal, parts. what ever you can lug home...
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 6:07 pm    Post subject: Re: Help Identifying found bus in Northern Ontario Canada Reply with quote

The roof.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 18, 2017 6:15 pm    Post subject: Re: Help Identifying found bus in Northern Ontario Canada Reply with quote

buseric wrote:
The roof.


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Maybe peices/sections of the roof.......... Confused
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 20, 2017 4:08 am    Post subject: Re: Help Identifying found bus in Northern Ontario Canada Reply with quote

Drag the whole thing out!!
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:07 am    Post subject: Re: Help Identifying found bus in Northern Ontario Canada Reply with quote

Righteous photo: should be titled, "Autumn of Life".
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 22, 2017 5:15 pm    Post subject: Re: Help Identifying found bus in Northern Ontario Canada Reply with quote

To those interested, My buddy and I headed up 2 hours north with an ATV and a trailer that was way too small for what we needed. it was a beautiful Autumn day about 20C or 70F. After finding the trail we trailed in about 45 minutes and almost lost the generator and sawzall when the trailer overturned in a puddle.. Well after we secured everything we found the 1959 Panelvan sitting where she has for over 52 years.
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It was at this point we found we had a flat on the ATV(The trail was terrible). We decided to cut up the bus while we had everything there. it took only 30 minutes to secure the 2 front doors, the 2 side doors, the rear hatch and the sought after front nose clip with intack bumper.

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The bus had absolutely no interior including tranny, engine, pedals, steering column,shifter, axles or even motor doghouse. This was all removed 50 something years ago to make it a cabin. I looked for anything salvageable but it was being eaten by the ground. There was no floor inside even.
We secured the front clip and started the long trail back to the road.
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Not 5 minutes into it we blew the trailer tire.
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So now with 2 flats we had to rethink things. It was decided to store the parts at the hunting lodge we barely made it to and retrieve the parts in the winter when we could sled them out using snow machines. It turned out to be a 9 hour day with no beer (lost in a small pond of a puddle) and very little to eat. This turned out to be an adventurous day and the bus still lives in the bush. Hopefully we can get the parts out this winter.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 22, 2017 8:04 pm    Post subject: Re: Help Identifying found bus in Northern Ontario Canada Reply with quote

epic adventure- glad to see you made it out more or less in one piece. Good to see that the bus (or parts of it) will live again. It was only on the road for the better part of 6 years?
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 10:31 am    Post subject: Re: Help Identifying found bus in Northern Ontario Canada Reply with quote

Parts are now at home, I will be selling them except for the front nose and bumper. They will be my wallhanger.
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