shipping across the pond

[threeknucklesdeep]

i'm reasonably new to the aircooled bus world and i've been noticing lots of you folks talking about shipping buses and parts back to europe which has me scratching my head a bit.Why is there a need to ship buses back over? Is it because the american buses suffer less rot or have the buses always been more rare on your side of the ocean ? I only ask because i see the big dollar resto's being done to some of your buses and although i live i an area where the roads have literally piles of salt on them (some of them thick enough to count as a speed bump ) 4 months a year i have managed to find a half dozen buses that could most likely be restored.

i like to believe that i contribute more to the vw community than i take from it and i'd be more than happy to help people out with finding buses worth shipping over. For the prices i'm seeing some of them sell for i would imagine i could have 5 of them in my yard for the price of one bought and shipped over so even if i charged a normal hourly rate to deal with the bus on this side of the atlantic i think you guys may end up with some good deals on your side .

i'm just putting this out as an option . i'm not looking to turn a profit off anyone but if the want is there i could put a bit more effort into finding buses in my area and taking pictures of them to see if theyre worth bringing home for you guys to consider .

thanks for reading and if i can do anything over here to help you out shoot me a pm .

(also if someone could tell me how to resize my picture that would be great too )

 

[Resto-raider]

The reason why we ship buses over from the US is because the buses in the US have suffered less from rot, depending on where they've spent their lives. Especially busses from California, but also Texas are popular. They often need hardly any welding and have original paint, sometimes with sunfaded paint. That's the buses most people are after.
Restoring is expensive, buying and shipping is often cheaper and it's way cooler to have an original looking bus.

It's not just a matter of finding any bus and ship it over. That's where I see that others get confused and try to ask the jackpot for a rotten bus. If you find a bus for cheap that needs no welding, isn't covered in putty and perhaps even has a good Westfalia interior you should buy it because that's what people are willing to pay top dollar for.

Now you don't have to scratch your head no more. Finding a bus is not that hard, finding a good one is.

 

[BARKING MARK]

The reason why we ship buses over from the US is because the buses in the US have suffered less from rot, depending on where they've spent their lives. Especially busses from California, but also Texas are popular. They often need hardly any welding and have original paint, sometimes with sunfaded paint. That's the buses most people are after.
Restoring is expensive, buying and shipping is often cheaper and it's way cooler to have an original looking bus.

It's not just a matter of finding any bus and ship it over. That's where I see that others get confused and try to ask the jackpot for a rotten bus. If you find a bus for cheap that needs no welding, isn't covered in putty and perhaps even has a good Westfalia interior you should buy it because that's what people are willing to pay top dollar for.

Now you don't have to scratch your head no more. Finding a bus is not that hard, finding a good one is.

Well said, Nuff said :msn4: