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TeamSpatula
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Joined: February 03, 2004
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Location: WNC
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Or if you & your friend both pass on the DD< I know someone who might be interested...*ahem*
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vwspijlbus
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Joined: December 23, 2003
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Location: The Netherlands
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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Go for the age factor!
56!
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Kee
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Joined: October 07, 2004
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Location: Sthlm, Sweden
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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The DD looks more solid to me. But the 56 is charming in it's own way. The DD already has the matt grey paint done, 'cause that's what every rodder would want, no? 
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Benfalia
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Joined: August 08, 2003
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Location: Portland, Oregon
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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i'd say keep em both, keep the DD stock and slam the '56, if you have to.
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AndrewM
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Joined: February 18, 2002
Posts: 496
Location: Charlotte, NC
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the advice guys,
If I do the DD as a "hot rod" bus I'm going to drop it on a narrowed adjustable beam with dropped spindles. Type 3 tranny, running randars or Fuchs. Not so low as to have to cut into the wheel wells. I'll probably run a stock 1600 until my budget will allow a Raby motor. I want a bus I can do burn outs and show off with.
As for the body, I'm going to have the front floor patched, body smoothed out and put an epoxy primer of light puke green on the bus. The bus was delivered in dove blue but sometime in the buses life it was re-painted a light, "hospital tile" green. I believe this was the color that the bus lived most of it's life in. I kinda like the sick green color as it's different.
If I do the 56, it will pretty much be the same minus body work of course. |
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Bill-E-BoB
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Joined: September 07, 2004
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Location: Woodstock, GA
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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just a thought...but why not turn one into both? Just paint a logo on the side of the DD & call it done. It won't be original, but from the mods you're talkin' about, I'm not guessing that OG is a major factor. This way you can have both & it'd be a whole lot easier to fake a logo than to hack doubledoors into a regular panel...
if I were thinking of rodding one, I'd get the double door...paint it flat black, paint a logo on the side for like a Rod & Custom shop or somethin' cool like that, then age the hell out of the paint with really fine sandpaper. but instead of fuch's I'd do stock wheels painted red with 2" whitewalls...and some fuzzy dice...and a sparkplug in the tailpipe to shoot flames when you hit the throttle.  Then I'd put a stereo in it so I could drive around listenin' to rockabilly all day, and hook up with a girl who looks like Betty Page. But then that's me. My bus is parked next to my '69 Camaro, so I don't quite fit the mold... |
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23window
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Joined: November 25, 2001
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Logoed 56. |
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obus 
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Joined: March 08, 2001
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Location: just off Garden State Parkway Exit 81
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CoBusDriver
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Joined: December 30, 2003
Posts: 359
Location: Home is where you park it
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I'd pimp either one. You could paint "original style" logos onto the DD and age them using various procedures mentioned in previous posts. I was seriously considering doing just that to my DD '57.
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magicbus
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| stay stock- be the bus |
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Metalwizard
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Joined: October 21, 2003
Posts: 696
Location: Archdale, NC
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| Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Do the 56, btw i'll take the dd in trade on the the sheetmetal work on the 56 . Top that one suka's |
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AndrewM
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Location: Charlotte, NC
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| Kelly, you better watch out! I might just take you up on that offer! If you pm me sometime I need to ask you some stuff about some stuff! |
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Metalwizard
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Location: Archdale, NC
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| Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Hell you know me i would let you, something about a dd perks my bus itch. . Email me at [email protected]. I forget pm's. also ck aim under metwiz2 during shop hrs & saturdays |
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