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[braidmeister]

  Just goes to show how lost one can be!!................   :icon_wink:

Bwahahahaha!!!  LAUGH@ LAUGH@ LAUGH@ LAUGH@ LAUGH@ LAUGH@

I was waiting for someone to say that...

[Beetleboi -Greg-]

I guess this is what I get for sleeping 16 hours! Ok... 14.  The thread is 2 pages longer and my fish on Fishville are dead! Thanks for all the info about the engine swapping. I agree with Marc about the Subaru engine, but you need money for that one. I'll try to find one with a 1600 maybe I can put my food stash up on the cot or rip it out and do something else with that space. =-) Like I said I'll even take a passenger bus, anything to keep me off of the floor in a leaky tent.

As for the pretzels, my parents use to pass this pretzel place on the way to visit my grandparents. It was just over one of the bridges on the way to PA. It was just some guy selling pretzels on the street. They were soft and moist kinda like Wawa's before they went and ruined them. I still prefer Annie Ann's Pretzels over Philadelphia Pretzel Factory's.

[3Gear]

I wonder if you can swap camper tops and put the full bed in a 1600 type bus, it's not like the body's are different...  ohhh boy a new project gifsawsall

[Beetleboi -Greg-]

Too much work.  gifsawsall  @7@

I still don't get the point of the "campers" that have that little section that allows you to stand up. Maybe there is also where the oven is. There is one of these for sale too... but it has no interior and now I can't find where I found it. I just got pictures sent to me from a email I sent out 2 weeks ago.

[braidmeister]

You REALLY don't want to do an engine swap. Just wait until you find the one you want. It will be FAR cheaper and easier to just pay a few more bucks for something that you can buy, register, hop in & drive/enjoy.

Not for nothing, but...All of this talking about engine swaps is not realistic. Do you REALLY want to do an engine swap? You don't even like dropping the motor on the bug - and that is CAKE!

Jack suggested that you find one with a 1600 because it is much easier for you to service & maintain. There is nothing wrong with a T4 powered bus, if it is properly maintained & all the parts are there, but they are a bit more complicated and parts aren't as easy to come by.

You DESERVE a nice bus that you can be proud of...all you need is to excercise some discipline, save up the cash and wait for the right one to come along. There is absolutely no reason that you can't have a nice bus...unless of course you have made up your mind that you are not worthy of this...

HOW BAD DO YOU WANT IT???

WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO DO TO GET IT? (A-hem...2nd job)

Lots of places are hiring for the Christmas season. A 2nd job would easily help you to stack up some savings towards a decent bus.

Just a thought...

-B

[Beetleboi -Greg-]

Brady thanks, I will try to hold out the longest I can. I do want to get at least one camping trip done in a bus next year. Even it if its Flanders which is towards the end of the season. Not a fan of engine swapping and you are right, if I get one that everything is there and functional I shouldn't have to pull the motor anyway. Tyler really lucked out with his bus. I'm still amazed by it. I have picked up a 2nd job working with my friend, so that will help and it's simple work that I can do while at my other job... well probably not now since I am switch to a "normal" shift.

[Baha (Shawn)]

Keep giving your Dad the money to hold....no wait... give it to your mom
(she'll give it back when you need it instead of "applying it to past debts"  LAUGH@ )
 
and keep posting. With all the eyes and ears in this group a GOOD one will turn up.

Now for the pop-top. Standing up is the THIRD reason (but it beats cramping legs from crawling in a tent)

The second reason for the pop-top is the bunk to put the kids in.

The first is as usual the genius of the German engineers. Heat rises, cool air falls. opening the flap on the top and the jalousie windows creates a natural chimney. An updraft. Warmer air rises up and out the top causing a draft (suction) pulling cooler air from the ground up. Free air conditioning!

Old houses had the same setup in the kitchens to cool the whole first floor.

[VWPANZER1]

Greg:

  Everything eventualy will be for sale and at a good (affortable) price.

  Keep your cash handy and be ready to jump on it, and jump quick.

  You have the advantage of a hundred eyes in the club on the look out.

Pay a little more and get a running bus.   busicon2  You will be way ahead in the short and long run.

 Have patience, everything comes to he (or she) who waits and all those other asian sayings that have worked for thousands of years.

 (love
jt

 

[Dagerm]

Another option:
This looks better than the other one. And the price doesn't say FIRM.
Sell the extra parts to finish the engine. The bad part is there aren't any inside pics,but he is willing to send them.
I don't know how NJ is laid out so this might be right around the corner or across the state.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=878455

[Beetleboi -Greg-]

Ack but it's not running! Thanks for lookin' out for me. I don't care what it looks like, just as long as it drives and stops.

[rockdog2877]

Ack but it's not running! Thanks for lookin' out for me. I don't care what it looks like, just as long as it drives and stops.

you might want to add "well" to those 2 requirements.

[Beetleboi -Greg-]

Ha ha good points chris!

[rockdog2877]

Ha ha good points chris!

as in " it runs well when you push it down the street."

[50split(paul)]

beet, what is your price range?
i agree that you should pay a little more and get a running bus.
also it should matter what it looks like. you don't want no stinkin' rat bus.
there have been some nice busses around so if i know your price range it will help.
tyler did luck out on his bus but with all the eyes of the club on the lookout you should score.
they are out there, you just need to look.
did you have a chance to see the bus on 202 near flemington?

[Beetleboi -Greg-]

3500 is my estimated savings by April. No I haven't been back to NJ. Might check it out on the way home. Did you hear back from the junk yard bus?