Posted by sleeperspirit People will pay more for an even rustier shitty ass Vw bus.
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Oh man... this is a good example of that. I know an old guy with a TON of old cars on his property. I've been through a hundred times since I was a kid, he never sells anything but he's more than happy to let me take a walk through the place and take pictures whenever.
The story is, he was hit head on in his VW Bus in 1961- the bus was totaled, he was told he'd never walk again, etc... so he started hauling scrap cars and pushing them to their final resting place manually to build strength.
The bus he was hit head on in? Sitting in his yard since 1961.
I posted a pic of it on a VW forum and got a LOT of response from it. I finally broke down and told the location to a German dude who was staying in Canada with his girlfriend while she finished university. He was actually polite...
Anyhow, he drove out there and offered Bill $5k for it... Bill said no. (Bill is also about 200 years old).
So he offered Bill $7,000 for it. Bill finally obliged.
The thing was so rotten, he had to build a frame out of wood to keep it from collapsing on itself.
...and then wrapped in plastic to kind of hold it together.
He brought it home to Europe and is restoring it now.
The story of this particular bus gets pretty interesting if you want to do some light reading-
http://www.thesamb...torder=asc&start=0