[tcb] Re: '56 bus

  • From: Will <evilscientistboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:27:23 -0500

Early 55 is when barndoors stopped.  After that the eyebrow and rear hatch were 
standard.  The traditional dash also came into play as well.


Happy hunting.



-----Original Message-----
From: Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:11 PM
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: '56 bus

I couldn't get a good description of the cargo hatch and the engine hatch. I 
wondered why. I have had this problem before, they made busses with no overhang 
that were not barndoor? What year was the last barndoor?
----- Original Message -----
From: sammie smith
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:02 PM
Subject: [tcb] Re: '56 bus

Well Denis:  Sounds like you may have discovered something.  The description is 
of a barn door; but they didn't make barn doors in 56.   Pictures, pictures, 
pictures.

Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
So, I took Murray and went to Sam's Club to get huge bags of grass seed for the 
Psycobilly parking/camping area. As I am coming out, one of the two super old 
guys who check your receipt to make sure that you don't have a 60" plasma under 
the tomatoes says, "Are you a mechanic?" 
 
I'm thinking, what about me would provoke such a question, and I say, "Why?" He 
says, "We are trying to figure out how to convert a 1950 tractor from 6 volt to 
8". Putting aside the fact that I have never heard of 8 volt anything, I 
suggested that there were probably about a million antique tractor guys on the 
internet. They both looked at me as if I had spoken Navajo. I said go to a 
library and they would do the search for him.
 
I loaded up Murray and as I was leaving the parking lot I drove by the door and 
one of the guys waves at me to stop. I do. He says, "I have one of these". I 
say really? "Yeah, It's older though, and not as nice."
 
He tells me that it is a '56. I asked him if it has an overhang over the 
windshield. "No, and it also has a bigger door in the back, over the engine 
door. It has a little bitty engine".
 
Of course, my next question was, "Wanna sell it?"
 
"No."
 
I know his name and I know where he works. If I can find out where he lives and 
where his bus is. I might have to kill him.
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