WTB Bus, Westy or other Camper

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Re: WTB Bus, Westy or other Camper

Post by Amskeptic » Sun Dec 25, 2016 7:32 pm

asiab3 wrote: Also, we can start a club! "Sparkle Metallic Paint Bus Club of Southern California." Or, the SMPBCOSC for short. That just rolls off the tongue, like much of the German I learned last week.

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Re: WTB Bus, Westy or other Camper

Post by asiab3 » Mon Dec 26, 2016 12:50 am

Amskeptic wrote: "Byass Boat Sparklelike Metallic Paint Bus Club of Southern California." Or, the BBSMPBCOSC for even shorter.
Colin :blackeye:
Nothing short about how often this stuff needs waxing.

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Re: WTB Bus, Westy or other Camper

Post by tommu » Tue Dec 27, 2016 10:41 am

pj wrote:Nope, still sitting in the garage. I need to go out and update the ad, I guess.

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Well that is a beauty. You should have no trouble selling that at al.

I now have a deposit down, and shipping arranged, for a Sage Green '76 which I'm looking forward to immensely.

Would love to take part in a SoCal IAC meet up in the new year.

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Re: WTB Bus, Westy or other Camper

Post by tommu » Tue Dec 27, 2016 10:42 am

tommu wrote:
pj wrote:Nope, still sitting in the garage. I need to go out and update the ad, I guess.

Thanks,

Philip
Well that is a beauty - you should have no trouble selling.

I now have a deposit down, and shipping arranged, for a Sage Green '76 which I'm looking forward to immensely.

Would love to take part in a SoCal IAC meet up in the new year.

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Re: WTB Bus, Westy or other Camper

Post by asiab3 » Tue Dec 27, 2016 1:53 pm

Congrats on the purchase! Pictures! We d̶e̶m̶a̶n̶d̶ politely ask for pictures!
tommu wrote:Would love to take part in a SoCal IAC meet up in the new year.
This sounds like a splendid idea. Perhaps I could get a ball rolling on this…
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Re: WTB Bus, Westy or other Camper

Post by Bleyseng » Wed Dec 28, 2016 5:58 am

tommu wrote:
tommu wrote:
pj wrote:Nope, still sitting in the garage. I need to go out and update the ad, I guess.

Thanks,

Philip
Well that is a beauty - you should have no trouble selling.

I now have a deposit down, and shipping arranged, for a Sage Green '76 which I'm looking forward to immensely.

Would love to take part in a SoCal IAC meet up in the new year.
:cheers: :cheers: :cheers: =D> =D>
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Re: WTB Bus, Westy or other Camper

Post by tommu » Fri Jan 27, 2017 11:44 am

Update.

Waiting for 4Corners to arrange shipping of the bus back to sunny downtown Burbank.. it's bad weather over in Minnesota apparently and the wait is unbearable! For both me and I'm sure the seller.

Before this We suffered a painful three weeks delay setting up a transaction using escrow.com for the purchase. I transferred by Electronic Check rather than Wire which was a very very bad move apparently. After that I Wired the money over and initiated shipping.

I am finding it very hard indeed to be patient.

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Re: WTB Bus, Westy or other Camper

Post by tommu » Wed Feb 08, 2017 3:05 pm

Green Machine, as he's provisionally known, is on his way. ETA Sunday.
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Re: WTB Bus, Westy or other Camper

Post by tommu » Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:46 am

It's arrived and it's looking as good as I hoped. Body work is very straight,no obvious signs of Bondo and no bad rust. The interior is absolutely excellent. It should be too as its phaedrus76's Bus (eche_bus on the other site). I'll create another thread in the appropriate section where I can ask lots of stupid questions..

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Re: WTB Bus, Westy or other Camper

Post by zabo » Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:02 pm

beautiful
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Re: WTB Bus, Westy or other Camper

Post by asiab3 » Tue Feb 14, 2017 11:48 pm

Oh my sweet lord, you bought eche_bus' bus????????

DROOLING RIGHT NOW,
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Re: WTB Bus, Westy or other Camper

Post by Bleyseng » Wed Feb 15, 2017 8:08 am

Nice! I didn't even know it was for sale...Score!
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Re: WTB Bus, Westy or other Camper

Post by Ronin10 » Wed Feb 15, 2017 8:29 am

tommu wrote:It should be too as its phaedrus76's Bus (eche_bus on the other site).
Good god, eche sold his bus! Other than mechanical stuff which eche_bus didn't seem get to yet, that thing should be darn near pristine. You struck gold, my friend.
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Re: WTB Bus, Westy or other Camper

Post by tommu » Wed Feb 15, 2017 12:01 pm

Ronin10 wrote:
tommu wrote:It should be too as its phaedrus76's Bus (eche_bus on the other site).
Good god, eche sold his bus! Other than mechanical stuff which eche_bus didn't seem get to yet, that thing should be darn near pristine. You struck gold, my friend.
It's excellent. No other word for it. It's quite intimidating having something partially restored to such a standard. Service history shows it was last in LA in 1991 before moving to Minnesota. It's back home now!

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Re: WTB Bus, Westy or other Camper

Post by Amskeptic » Tue Apr 11, 2017 9:13 pm

The mechanical restoration now begins, to YOUR pretty damn good too standards.
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BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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