Swinada's Bus Conversion progress...

[swinada]

Tank you "lornaschinske" for your tips. I knew about the food not being able to bring accross, so we have to make sure we eat evrything before crossing over and then go shopping state side.

They did search the rig and they did find things that they didn't like that I hadn't considered would be a problem,

Have to contact her and find out what those items are.

[swinada]

Ok lets try this and see if pictures work this way, for some reason i was not able anymore to link to Picasa.

Seating area



Various gages

View down the hallway with the Kids bunk beds on the side



View fro the masterbedroom towards the front


Bathroom, kind of hard to get this in a picture without a wide angle lense.

[timbuk]

nice i see you got some of that tand g in there! who woundnt want to take that down the oregon coast to cali? great job!

[nat_ster]

Sweet build. Good to see a fellow Canadian touring the country side in skoolie.

This post will bring this thread back to the top so some of our new members can find it.

Nat

[swinada]

Originally Posted by nat_ster

Sweet build. Good to see a fellow Canadian touring the country side in skoolie.

This post will bring this thread back to the top so some of our new members can find it.

Nat

Well except my bus has been sitting for a couple years now not turning a wheel as we moved to an area with only ferry access. And as we all know BC Ferries fairs are a little high to take a 40' bus on just for a weekend trip.

[gusbus]

Originally Posted by the_experience03

Pfft....real buses were made by low ball bidder Wayne and powered by crazy Ford inline diesels with everything stamped in Spanish.

I resemble that remark

[nat_ster]

Originally Posted by swinada

Well except my bus has been sitting for a couple years now not turning a wheel as we moved to an area with only ferry access. And as we all know BC Ferries fairs are a little high to take a 40' bus on just for a weekend trip.

Want to sell it?

Nat

[swinada]

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Want to sell it?

Nat[/quote]

No don't think i would get enough money out of it, and it serves as a guest cabin / Kids come home cabin.

[bansil]

I like how you used different colored textured material throughout and not just one type, helps to break it up

[inkblots84]

Hey do you guys have any idea how much you've spent in total on your bus? We're trying to talk our parents into getting a bus and they loooooove yours! My father in law guessed about $200k!

[bansil]

Originally Posted by inkblots84

Hey do you guys have any idea how much you've spent in total on your bus? We're trying to talk our parents into getting a bus and they loooooove yours! My father in law guessed about $200k!

No disrespect meant here...I would say under 20k total including the initial bus...they did all the work and it turned out great

[WinslowtheBluebird]

You'd be amazed at how inexpensive the conversions can be when you do the work yourself. Ours totaled around 14k, including the bus price. It just takes a lot of love and patience…

I wanted to say, the Swinada has my favorite color gradient paint color! I have been playing around with sunset gradient ideas for the outside, and hadn't seen one like yours… it just looks stunning. We are still apprehensive about the rustoleum paint approach, but would you say that the paint still looks good and endures the elements? I'd love to play with a blue and red gradient from front to back. Oooh the possibilities!

Your bus looks great on the inside too! I think when all is said and done, we could use more storage on ours, not to mention we are now expecting a little addition to the family, so bunk beds would've been a great idea too!

Congrats on having such a lovely bus!

p.s. I have a dream of converting a tour bus some day too… all those windows!!!