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Erik G
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ryans65
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| yuck. post that in the abortion thread also |
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velvetgreen
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| i wonder how you do any engine maintenance |
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Glenn 
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| Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2019 12:35 pm Post subject: Re: SEMA Junk |
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| i wonder how you do any engine maintenance |
The engine is in the front.
Joking.
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sanhozeezee
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| Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2019 3:35 pm Post subject: Re: SEMA Junk |
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| velvetgreen wrote: |
| i wonder how you do any engine maintenance |
it's e-powered...  |
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EmpiGT
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| I was just about to say it looked like the one built on top of the Divco in the abortion thread. But I see a pic of that abortion in the pics of this bus. It looked so hideous on the Divco they built another without the Divco? |
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MrPolak
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Bulli Klinik
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| Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2019 8:18 am Post subject: Re: SEMA Junk |
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That's Randy Grubb in the tye-die. I imagine that this is supposed to get towed behind the Blastolene milk truck.
https://randygrubb.com
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Lind
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Proving once again how hard it is to visually improve on the original design. Many try, all fail. The harder they try, the bigger the fail.
I do like the swivel front seats and sunroof combo.
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Enkiel
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| Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2019 9:14 am Post subject: Re: SEMA Junk |
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the fact they didnt even try to make the rear bumper fit the new curve doesnt speak of quality to me...
weird considering it's SEMA.
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my56samba
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If it was built from a badly rear ended heap with a Gerson roof and those are fibreglass front and (front)rear bumpers, I don't mind it. There is nothing wrong with being creative. But lets hope he didn't hack up a nice restorable 23 window to create this, but the more I look at it the worse it looks. I like art-deco and the Decoliner that he built but this one doesn't have the same flow.
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EverettB
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AS350driver
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| Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2019 7:46 pm Post subject: Re: SEMA Junk |
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| my56samba wrote: |
| If it was built from a badly rear ended heap with a Gerson roof and those are fibreglass front and (front)rear bumpers, I don't mind it. There is nothing wrong with being creative. But lets hope he didn't hack up a nice restorable 23 window to create this. |
Unfortunately, the folks that do stuff like this usually have a talent, a zest even, for finding nice, survivor OG buses to hack up. If they started with one that needed repairs, it just wouldn't give them the same pleasure as ruining a nice bus in the process. |
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obus
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Busstom
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the fact they didnt even try to make the rear bumper fit the new curve doesnt speak of quality to me...
weird considering it's SEMA. |
My thoughts exactly, it sticks out like a sore thumb...along with the rear of the beltline that tapers up, decreasing in width until it merges into the drip rail. Like he should've spent more time with pen-in-hand...very un-SEMA-like. |
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PeteSC
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| It’s odd that all of the customization is so wild yet limited exclusively to the rear end of the bus. |
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mandraks
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| i wonder how you do any engine maintenance |
should be easy. the ass end is so much longer you can probably stand up behind the engine
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AS350driver
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| Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 10:12 pm Post subject: Re: SEMA Junk |
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| Lind wrote: |
Proving once again how hard it is to visually improve on the original design. Many try, all fail. The harder they try, the bigger the fail.
I do like the swivel front seats and sunroof combo. |
The competitors from Detroit and other countries that produced small bus/van copies also failed to match the styling of the 50-67 VW bus. The Corvair vans are the most VW like of these in their design ...... air cooled, rear engine, forward control, similar dimensions/weight/capacity.
Corvair greenbriers and Corvans are decent looking, but the split bus still reigns supreme in style. |
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Who.Me?
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| velvetgreen wrote: |
| i wonder how you do any engine maintenance |
should be easy. the ass end is so much longer you can probably stand up behind the engine |
You'd only have to tune it once. Then the Carbon Monoxide poisioning would get you and save you the hassle.
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thom
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7of9 wore it better
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