The Craigslist Bus Thread

VWBusrepairman · Post by **VWBusrepairman** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:13 am

hambone wrote:Bus is sold. Story of my freakin life, day late dollar short.

At least you still have that sexy avitar and there will be more buses. This is the year that they shall come from the wood works.

LiveonJG · Post by **LiveonJG** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:08 am

VWBusrepairman wrote:This is the year that they shall come from the wood works.

Like this?

-John

VWBusrepairman · Post by **VWBusrepairman** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:13 pm

LiveonJG wrote:
VWBusrepairman wrote:This is the year that they shall come from the wood works.
Like this?

-John

that's an excellent example of a wood-work bus!

I found a '74 (actually have known of it since cerca 1998) and I'm going to try and get it out of the field it's in. I am in need of misc. fasteners for my '78. The last time I asked about it, the owner said it had no title and that he'd like to see it go to someone needing the parts- well, that's me.

(VDubtech- bless me with your super bus procurement power again, please)

DjEep · Post by **DjEep** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:13 pm

http://eugene.craigslist.org/car/634626725.html

LiveonJG · Post by **LiveonJG** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:39 pm

Wow! That bus can change windows! It's magic!

-John

DjEep · Post by **DjEep** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 6:21 am

It also seems to have shed/grown some deluxe trim.

Sylvester · Post by **Sylvester** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:39 am

Saw this in the local Craigslist today:

1959 VW BUG SUDAN - $4250

Wonder how much it is to ship from Africa?

Sylvester · Post by **Sylvester** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:07 am

Wish I had the room for it. I'd be VDubTech'ing it!

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/ ... ?id=596393[/img]

DjEep · Post by **DjEep** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:54 am

Hambone!!!

I've emailed a lady here in town who has a '69 transporter for $800.

here's the ad:

http://eugene.craigslist.org/car/638804097.html

here's the reply:

Hey there.

I'm sorry it's taken me so long to respond. As I said in the craigslist ad, I've had this van sitting in my driveway for 2 years now, and it's a hard thing to part with. This was my husband's van, and he died 2 years ago. So truly, I know nothing about VWs. In fact, I even got the year wrong -- it's a '69 Van. The van doesn't run, and I really have no idea how much work it will take to make it run again. (It was running 2 years ago, but it's a VW so you never know...) Could be it just needs a battery.

It does have middle and back seats.

Here are a couple of photos:

spiffy · Post by **spiffy** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:12 am

Holy HELL!!! Good find!!!!

I bet you could get that thing going with a little elbow grease.

dtrumbo · Post by **dtrumbo** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:41 am

Wow! If nothing else, the BA4 (I assume that's what that thing on the left of the engine compartment is) and the original oil-bath air cleaner is worth at least half the asking price!

dhoch14 · Post by **dhoch14** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:49 am

using my untrained type 1 eye, the engine looks purrrrrrrrrdy.

good find!

DjEep · Post by **DjEep** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:18 pm

Where's ham? I want this thing to go to him! If he can't get it, does anybody want to buy my '79, so I can pick this one up? '79 runs good, has a ba6 or whatever underneath, "has" a sunroof....

Needs to ditch that fram though...

LiveonJG · Post by **LiveonJG** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 1:31 pm

DjEep wrote:Where's ham? I want this thing to go to him! If he can't get it, does anybody want to buy my '79, so I can pick this one up? '79 runs good, has a ba6 or whatever underneath, "has" a sunroof....

Needs to ditch that fram though...

I went out and took some pics of it for him yesterday. She's pretty rusty and in need of a ton of tlc.

-John

spiffy · Post by **spiffy** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 1:36 pm

Rusty?? Well crap!

Yeah, that filter has to go....at the very least to a different location. It is weird that the passenger buses are so hard to find around here. Maybe they were used as daily drivers more and saw more abuse then the campers?

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