HAUER BROS. Logoed 1959 Panel Auction 6/27/24

[bastardbus]

So this sold at auction today for 18.5k in MN. One owner since new parked inside in 1968 looks like. Low miles, lotsa rust underneath but cool bus.

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[rustfree1967bug]

Are you the winning bidder? Bus is 3 hours from me but I wasn't able to attend auction so I was phone bidding on it. I ran it up to 17.5k before calling it quits.
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[von_hansel]

Talk about a drool worthy panel- high tail lights, OG safaris, sealing wax red, and logos

Someone scored!

More pics please
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[rustfree1967bug]

[von_hansel]

[rustfree1967bug]

[bastardbus]

I saw pretty detailed pics of the undercarriage and it looked very rough. I was worried about how bad it might be. I have seen buses from this part of the country before that had absolutely great looking top sides and then the chassis is completely rotted loose from the bus. I mean the frame, rear torsions just fall off a bus that otherwise looked absolutely great. I did place an absentee but but was conservative in my number. Someone took a gamble bidding that high for something that rotted without seeing the underneath in person. I will be very curious to see how rusty she really is when it surfaces down the road.
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Samba Member #95

[bastardbus]

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[mdege]

Well, that is basically the type of damage I was facing when I started mine. Not too uncommon on busses which lived in Germany all their life.

Took me two years to fix.
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- Michael

1965 21F: Restoration of a former '65 firetruck
1963 Typ3 Notchback project
1988 Multivan Magnum 112i
1984 Standard: My son wanted a bug for his first car

[Lind]

GVW 7000? Damn. Good luck pushing the bus around with over two tons of cargo with a 36hp engine.
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[Stocknazi]

Crazy how it has that much rust in the wheel wells and underneath and the front floor looks so nice.
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[Busstom]

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[rustfree1967bug]

[70bus]

My truck was a little worse - new floors, nose and a chunk of the frame rails. Personal experience says that owner may spend nearly as much in repairs as they did purchase. Yikes.

Hopefully their partner is as understanding as mine was.
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65 Pritschenwagen
"If Von Dutch was alive, he'd walk in there with a pistol and shoot these people." - Robert Williams

Raul the 65 singlecab

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[bastardbus]

My bet this bus was probably quite solid when parked. It is reported to have very low miles and the auctioneer told me it was parked in 63 (but plates read 1968 ) in a "shed" and never driven again.

Being from the mid-west, this odd rust is from being stored inside a building with a dirt, gravel or very poor quality concrete floor usually in a damp or low-lying area. The moisture from the ground wicks up through the floor and condenses on the bottoms of vehicle and being an enclosed building it takes forever to dry off. Like the outside of a glass of ice cold water on a hot day. This is why you see this deep rot, rust on the chassis and frame of the bus. Seen this many many times around these parts. I had a ghia, low miles, original paint and stored in an old, damp building just like this and the underneath of the car was so rotted it was unsavable and we cut it up.

Also had a building like this on my property. A cement floor garage built in a low spot. The floor was always wet-damp during warm months if closed up. It was so bad when I first bought the place the bottom 6 inches of all the wall studs were rotted away. I had to rebuild the entire bottom of the building and add forced ventilation to keep it dry inside. It helped but the floor would still get wet.
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[Busstom]

This is classic road salt rot, through and through, kicked up from the left-front tire...

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[mtnbus]

beautiful bus ! congrats

[Joe Caraway]

Just bought the Hauer Bros. ‘59 panel from the guy who won the auction. Added a battery and a fuel source and it started right up. All lights and even the horn work. Starting to clean it up. Got the brakes done. It’s been parked in a building since 1968. It seems to be all original. 39k miles. Oil change sticker says 35k miles in 1966. Here are some pics. Check back for progress.

[DanM]