OT, Barrett/Jackson 07' This Week

[tekebird]

the White and the Custom Coach Clipper should hit the block tonight

[tekebird]

take that back   likely a Friday for the white and Sat for the Flx

[tekebird]

Just saw the Von Dutch Bus.....
Outside of the famous connection the thing is a POS.

It is in as bad shape as the "Rosa Parks" bus that the Ford Museum bought.....and it could not even be proved to be what they claimed......only that it was in the fleet at the time.  The Museum spent alot of money fabricating parts for it, despite alot of the parts being available from different sources...and it still doesn't have an interior

will be interesting to see how much scrap metal brings because of a name.......

Oh it is a 35 foot old look GM Transit......didn't get a long enought look to figure the model #

[tekebird]

http://www.mrsharkey.com/busbarn/vondutch/vondutch.htm

http://www.letterhead.com/articles/bob_burns/vondutch/

http://www.carbuyersnotebook.com/archives/2007/01/bid_on_the_von.htm

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http://www.vondutch.freeservers.com/photo5.html

[Nick Badame Refrig/ACC]

Thanks Doug,

I'll post the pics of the Von Dutch Bus

Nick-

[Nick Badame Refrig/ACC]

And more....

[tekebird]

in those links is another photo of it without paint on the front......the condition it is in at barrett jackson is far worse than these photos....looks like it was missing 1/2 the windows. and had almost no white paint........god knows what happend to the paint as that stuff is made of indestructium......and should still be white unless someone was fooling with it...or it's not the same bus

[Nick Badame Refrig/ACC]

Auction results as of last night

[tekebird]

Von Dutch Bus............................................Sold..............40,000.00

[tekebird]

White Yellowstone/Glacier NP Tour Bus, Custom Resto-Mod....................Sold.....................175,000.00

[belfert]

Von Dutch Bus............................................Sold..............40,000.00

$40k for that heap of scrap metal??  I guess a famous name really does mean something.

Brian

[captain ron]

Von Dutch Bus............................................Sold..............40,000.00

$40k for that heap of scrap metal??  I guess a famous name really does mean something.

Brian

Boy the guy that bought My old bus got a steal   

[larryh]

Carrol Shelby sets all time high 5,000,000 % MILLION Ron Pratt purchaser

[Nick Badame Refrig/ACC]

Hay,

Ron Pratte spent over 9 million saturday....

It's a shame he doesn't open his personal collection to the public with over 800 vehicles in it!

Nick-

[Ed Hackenbruch]

The Flx sold for $125,000