[tcb] Re: What's the long lost history of your bus?

  • From: "Shelby Shook" <sloweyefasthand@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:18:34 -0500

Man I feel dumb. Although I could see the Post Office using a bus......

On 8/28/07, Stephen Brannan <ozarkcycleworks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> PO Previous Owner.
>
> It actually went through one person between the woods and me.  The middle
> man had it a week and was going to hack it up for a dune buggy.  He needed
> money for booze and sold it to me.
>
> *Shelby Shook <sloweyefasthand@xxxxxxxxx>* wrote:
>
> The post office? That's so cool!
> Mine was found in an open field somewhere in Colorado, next to a GT500 of
> all things. The guy that bought the lot was going for the GT500 of course,
> and gave the bus to his brother: the guy that sold it to me. That's mostly
> all I know besides the Gratefull Dead sticker...which brings up many
> possible stories haha.
>
>
> On 8/28/07, Stephen Brannan <ozarkcycleworks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > "Matchbox 20" and "They Might be Giants"
> >
> > That was when I had a running VW and a working radio concurrently.
> > My VW was bought by the PO in 1980, driven for a year and parked near
> > some woods.  The woods engulfed it and some good sized trees had to be cut
> > for it's rescue.  I'm very surprised that it isn't rusted out.  I don't know
> > any history on it from 63 to 80, but the 66 parts car next to it has a
> > Canadian sticker.
> >
> > *Shelby Shook <sloweyefasthand@xxxxxxxxx >* wrote:
> >
> > Alright, so I was driving to school today (my second day of college) in
> > the bus playin the Zepellin 2 album, and I was thinking, the VW bus has
> > undoubtably been a big figure of music in the 60's and 70's. I was
> > wondering, what's everyone's fav album to listen to while driving their bus?
> > I just can't decide what mine would be, they all sound so great and the bus
> > just magnifies their coolness. I find myself imagining what the original
> > owners of my bus might have listned to as I rock out to anything from
> > Hendrix, to Dylan, to the Gratefull Dead, and too many others to mention. I
> > do know one thing, according to the guy I bought Sunnie from, she had a
> > Gratefull Dead sticker on her back window. I wonder how many Dead concerts
> > she's been to. I wish knew what she went through, or maybe it'd be better if
> > I didn't know haha. She was a Colorado bus after all, I wonder how many
> > hippies she's hauled off to concerts and music fests back in the day. And
> > yes, even though I'm very against drugs, I sometimes wonder if there's any
> > pot under the back seat (since I havn't cleaned underneath it yet).
> >
> > So anyway, what do you guys listen to while cruisin' in your bus? Do you
> > often wonder what it went through just like me? Where do you guys think your
> > bus has been?
> >
> > It's really fun to imagine where Sunnie's been, wish I knew.
> >
> >
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