Hey gang, my girlfriend and I purchased some land in Southwest CO, in one of our favorite areas. It's completely off grid, and we wanted to make it livable in the shortest amount of time possible, but also have something mobile so we can continue to make improvements to the land itself (grading, possibly install a septic, etc). We looked at sheds for a while, but then started looking at buses, and I had a couple requirements:
1: I wanted a shortie for manueverability
2. I wanted a 7.3L Powerstroke, I think these engines are killer!
3. I wanted it to be finished building out inside, or close to it, so we could start using it immediately
I looked for a few months, and found a 'problem bus' in New Mexico. The owner was originally asking 15k, but the bus developed mechanical issues and would not stay driving, turns out the injectors were going bad along with a host of other things. I'm all the way in Wisconsin, so I couldn't go look at it in person, but.... we talked w the owner on the phone quite a bit, and made an arrangement to get it towed to a diesel repair place, and explained we wanted an estimate to fix it.
From there, we had it repaired, drove across the country to pick it up once it was fixed, and drove it to our land in Colorado.
Here is the first episode, hope you guys dig it! Cheers!
https://youtu.be/A0JvhuG2Uo8
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