Wife asked me to clean up

[Jetfxr69]

So the other day, my wife asked me to clean up all the old parts that were scattered all over the basement and if I would do something with these old busses laying about in the yard.

She thought it was starting to look like a junkyard.

“ of course, dear.”

And look at all the new space we have now.

Well shit! Aint gonna let perfectly good dry storage space go to waste.

For those of you playing along. The width of the fender flares requires at least 1 door to be removed. It would have been easier to pull both, but I can report that it will indeed go with just 1.
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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. Zappa

‘77 westy Seamus
‘76 tintop Crusher
‘77 westy The Judge
‘72 tintop bastard westy Hudson

[alaskadan]

Ha ! That'll teach her. A row of those cinema seats in the van might be interesting. When I was a kid dad put two rows of airliner seats in our 70 something dodge van that we got from boeing surplus.

[Jetfxr69]

[skills@eurocarsplus]

i sneak things into barns. takes here a good month or so before she realizes somethings there.

however, in her defense sometimes you need to know when to say "when"

I have a 70 parts bus that really is a total roach. it's behind my shed and it too has turned into a shed....that wasn't it's purpose. it was suppose to go to the crusher about a year ago...i got busy and it fell way down on the priority list.

Our basement looked much like yours. I began sorting/organizing and got 85% of it neatly sorted....then got busy. I've come to realize that 1) I can't save it all and 2) I have no desire to save it all.

Gone are the days of me wanting to have 52 of each part for each car I own. When I get un-busy It's going to be time for a major sort and sell off. The older I get the more I realize 'less is more'

good job with the clean up!
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[cmonSTART]

So does she ever venture into the basement? For laundry or a freezer or something?

Just wondering when she will figure it out and how many more you can now store.......

Nice work!
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'78 Bus 2.0FI
de K1IGS

[Jetfxr69]

[Jetfxr69]

[skills@eurocarsplus]

[cmonSTART]

[jtauxe]

[my59]

Nice to have a drive in basement!!
When we bought this place, the barn was empty, and provided plenty of room for the bug and the bus. At max capacity, there were 2 mg midgets, three motorcycles and 7 bikes...the midgets got replaced with a project jeep. Now the boys and most of their projects are gone, but a claw foot tub my wife wants in a renovated upstairs bathroom has been moved in.
She's said no more cars till I get rid of one. I say no second floor bath renovation till we have a 2nd bath on the first floor....
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my59: Well son, my grandfather died before I got to drive it, so does that answer your question?
our79: sunroof bus w/camper interior and 2.0 FI
Other:'12 Jetta, '77 Benz 300D, and a 74 MG Midget.

[calvinater]

Whos gonna schlep that cast iron tub upstairs?
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"Albatross"!

[skills@eurocarsplus]

[ImAddicted]

Sometimes you don't own stuff, stuff owns you. I get it, Don. When my dad passed, my mom downsized from a 5000sf New Englander to a studio apartment. All that stuff ended up in 3 storage units. After a short period of time, you stop thinking "but I might use that some day" and start thinking "I'm sick of looking at this stuff."
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1979 Transporter (sold)
KC1MUR

[my59]

[Manfred58sc]

You replaced a few totes with an entire vehicle and called it a win. I like your thinking.
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[HoboBus]

[vwwestyman]

I love the bus in the basement! And even better that you'll be gone for a few days!

As far as the stuff conversation, I'm starting to get there. Though I haven't done much of anything to really do anything about it, yet.

I don't have a huge stash, but I've got some stuff I don't need anymore from/for cars I don't have. My problem is I do feel like it's worth some money and there is probably someone out there that could use some of it. So it feels like a shame to just toss it. BUT looking at it all, and thinking about all the work it will take to get rid of it feels like a lot.

Hmmm... I have three weeks left at my FT job. I'm quitting to build my private therapy practice. I do have two entirely full days worth of clients right now, but it seems that I'll probably have a bit more free time in the few weeks it'll take to build that up. Perhaps that is when I should spend some time listing some of the stuff...
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Dave Cook

President, Wild Westerner Club

1978 Champagne Edition Westy, repowered to '97 Jetta TDI
1973 Wild Westerner
My Thing

[skills@eurocarsplus]

^^^ congrats going off on your own Dave. trust me you'll have hard times....like wanting to jump into that cast iron tub and slit your wrist hard times but you'll get thru it.

[Abscate]

Congrats to JT on retirement and Dave on his new venture.

I retired from W2 work in 2003 when the company yanked my deferred comp plan, apparently thinking I would work just as hard just to pay 50% of my pay In taxes. They took 5 more years to fire me, too, while I started my own thing.

It was the second smartest thing I did in life, behind marrying a high paid, roofing, sex addict Mrs Abscate.

“ I can’t right now Honey, I have to go look at a Bus….oh, okay, let’s be quick”
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