Non-affiliated buses for sale - thread

[Truthseeker4449]

I figure I might as well share this here. This is a bus I have for sale. I've already written an essay for it in the ad and I really don't feel like retyping it in a new thread. Feel free to PM me for any further questions.

It just passed VA state inspection and a prepurchase inspection was done at a truck shop that I'm not affiliated with. New window assembly was quoted as $170 by my local Thomas dealer.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...95074547273522

[o1marc]

Originally Posted by Truthseeker4449

I figure I might as well share this here. This is a bus I have for sale. I've already written an essay for it in the ad and I really don't feel like retyping it in a new thread. Feel free to PM me for any further questions.

It just passed VA state inspection and a prepurchase inspection was done at a truck shop that I'm not affiliated with. New window assembly was quoted as $170 by my local Thomas dealer.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...95074547273522

Curious what gear you have in that bus. At 2400 in 5th on mine, I'm doing 85mph.

[Truthseeker4449]

Originally Posted by o1marc

Curious what gear you have in that bus. At 2400 in 5th on mine, I'm doing 85mph.

6.14 per the sticker on the diff. 2,400 RPM in 6th is 70 mph for this bus. The county has rather hilly terrain and Virginia buses at the time this one was built were limited to 55 mph by state law, so the high ratio makes sense to me. I know there's ones that were in the fleet that were even worse than this one.

[dzl_]

Couple of medium-sized FE's for sale on Govdeals or PublicSurplus right now. I dont have the links handy.


One was a 9 windows TC1000 high roof I believe, the other was a 9 window 29ft TC2000. Its a nice size, and I know people are looking for these, I'm hoping a couple people who actually want them will get fair deals on these, its a shame to see people sucking these up only to try to flip them for 20-25k+ with little or no value added.

[A_Bus_Called_Quest]

1977 Crown on GovDeals - California. what a beauty! Engine sounds good in the video, but I know absolutely nothing.
What do you guys think?

[Rwnielsen]

Be careful. A to Z bus sales is auctioning it off for a reason. I like it, manual transmission. It may need an engine from their evasive description

[Zork]

Originally Posted by Bear Gerschafer

1977 Crown on GovDeals - California. what a beauty! Engine sounds good in the video, but I know absolutely nothing.
What do you guys think?

Golden Rule #1: If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

[A_Bus_Called_Quest]

I was thinking the same thing actually "if it sounds too good to be true it probably is"
Thanks for the quick replies on this - not looking myself but hopefully helps someone!

[Rwnielsen]

On the surface it sounds like a great bus but....it might take some really deep pockets to get/keep it running.

[WIbluebird]

Yeah A to Z is a bus seller themselves - if that bus had any worth in it they would've had it on their lot, not trying to unload it on Gov Deals.

[dzl_]

Not a great value maybe, but a very cool looking build, and probably about average price for the current market:


https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/r...391089385.html

[Zork]

Originally Posted by dzl_

Not a great value maybe, but a very cool looking build, and probably about average price for the current market:


https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/r...391089385.html

I bet some fool and his/her money will be violently separated.

[Rwnielsen]

You could buy a nice class A for less than that

[EastCoastCB]

Originally Posted by dzl_

Not a great value maybe, but a very cool looking build, and probably about average price for the current market:


https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/r...391089385.html

No that's quite a severely bloated price even today.
Love the typical sideways bed that's basically unusable for more than one shortish person lol.

That's converted Sprinter money.

[dzl_]

Originally Posted by EastCoastCB

No that's quite a severely bloated price even today.
Love the typical sideways bed that's basically unusable for more than one shortish person lol.

That's converted Sprinter money.

I dont think so, not if you look at converted buses, I'm not saying I like where the market is, but for a bespoke complete build, 65k is not too out of the ordinary (at least for an asking price). I would consider it to be less obscene than what people (including people on this forum) are trying to charge for their totally unconverted bone stock skoolies (like the few listed here for 25k lately). I think the market is crazy right now. To be clear I dont think its a good price, just not a substantially worse price than what a lot of the other fully converted buses are going for.

[dzl_]

Originally Posted by EastCoastCB

That's converted Sprinter money.

As an aside, sprinter conversion prices have gone crazy also. Came across two the other day in the 170-200k range, well done, very nice, but not exceptionally beyond the quality of hundreds of other builds. IDK where all these people with hundreds of thousands of dollars of disposable income that they must spend right now are coming from, but I'm ready for them to figure out that they liked the instagram version of vanlife/skoolie life better than reality and start selling their expensive toys so the market can return to semi-normalcy.

[dzl_]

Is this a members bus? I seem to recall seeing this 'backwards' / bed forward layout before


https://asheville.craigslist.org/rvs...400749192.html

[EastCoastCB]

Originally Posted by dzl_

Is this a members bus? I seem to recall seeing this 'backwards' / bed forward layout before


https://asheville.craigslist.org/rvs...400749192.html

That bus is a much better buy than the van.

[Zork]

Originally Posted by Rwnielsen

You could buy a nice class A for less than that

Better yet, with $65k you could buy (or pick it up for free) an abandoned house or apartment in a beautiful village in Italy, remodel it to your taste, buy a European RV with money left over to tour Europe, then when you get tired of that, you sell the RV and still have a nice home in Italy where you can retire, all yours with no mortgage.

[Booyah45828]

Not mine, saw on marketplace, follow the link. Seemed pretty reasonable considering the times.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/687467045564220/