[tcb] Re: '56 bus

  • From: Will Wood <evilscientistboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:45:55 -0500 (GMT-05:00)



Like I said, Early 55..


Actually March 55 if you want to be precise.  If the guy says it's a 56 it's still could be a Wolfsburg bus which is very collectable.
Three piece doglegs, etc.




-----Original Message-----
From: sammie smith
Sent: Mar 28, 2008 8:56 AM
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: '56 bus

Off the top of my head: 1955, but I defer to our Barndoor expert, Will.

Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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 -----
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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