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Fresh one rolling into the dirty shop today. Getting it unloaded/cleaned out.
Mitch you out there?
We will build it if it comes.
Abby Approved!!this is a pretty cool logod bus!! I heard is OG L31 under there too… 😏
I was out in the CA high desert pulling these water towers down for a lady who was controlling this abandoned estate. I saw an old station wagon that was sinking in the sand and then I saw this bus surrounded by desert pinion pines sitting on 4×4 boards. It had more rat nest and rat mummies than any car I’ve seen. The owner who had passed away used this bus as a cabin for visitors as evidenced by the cut bulkhead and luggage tray and the replacement with flat sheet metal patches. He was a big alien conspiracy guy and had hand painted ufo and astronomy signs all over. I pulled all of the cars and metal out of the desert and back to my house along with the family business files from “Whittier Sheet Metal.” The bus was 1 of 2 sister buses used for the family sheet metal business in Los Angeles during the 60s-70s. I found the original insurance info that listed all the business’ service vehicles. The other bus might still be out there, who knows. But I have original business records with the drivers mileage and fuel trip logs and the information on the sheet metal worker assigned to drive it the majority of its working life. My only guess is that this bus and the station wagon traveled to the family desert home and never left. The brown and green spray paint matched the pines well so maybe it was done to camouflage it years ago and could be the reason no one ever found it for decades.
Oh man!!! Fresh project!!
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