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Princess Leia - 1994 International
I have been wanting to buy a skoolie for quite some time. I have spent many an hour binge watching bus conversions on youtube and seeing the conversions on this site. I am finally picking one up on Monday.
Last week, I went and looked at some from craigslist and I talked to a mechanic that I trust about what to look for and such. In our conversation, he mentioned that he had done some work on a really good running bus for a friend and that said friend was probably willing to trade for it. I have some restaurant equipment from a restaurant I used to have and it's all just been sitting in storage. It turns out that this guy deals in used restaurant equipment and after talking a few times, we came to the agreement that I would trade a commercial oven for the bus and he would take the rest of the equipment on consignment and sell it for me. Win WIN!
I had originally wanted a 70+ pax, and this is not one. So, since I am not going out of pocket for this one, I am going to go ahead and move forward with the conversion and start hitting the auctions for a larger one down the road.
This one comes with a Harley lift! Well, they call it a "wheelchair lift", but I don't have a wheelchair. One of my thoughts through this process has been to have a bumper pull car/truck and that I wanted to bring my Harley so that I can ride all over the country. I wasn't sure how I was going to accomplish this, unless I pulled my heavy-ass avalanche with the Harley in the back. So, now, the plan is to pull a 24Kw fiat electric car that will act as battery backup for extended boondocking, to my existing 5+Kw battery/1.2Kw solar system that I will be putting in the bus.
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