How much did you pay for your bus?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Poptop2, Aug 27, 2018.

  1. CollyP

    CollyP Moderator

    £11.5 in 2013. Spent a grand on it since I suppose. Will need some work and some paint soon.
    It’s had a few hiccups but I am very happy with it.

    The only downside is the nutters on a certain forum I frequent!!
     
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  2. Merlin Cat

    Merlin Cat Moderator

    What’s it got to do with you beaky?! ;)
     
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  3. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    I am collating information for GCHQ about you aging hippies and your spending habits.

    So spill the beans Cat or I’ll send Bond around to give you a leathering!
     
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  4. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    You’re talking about Bern aren’t you?
     
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  5. Post Brexit they'll be worthless :rolleyes:
     
  6. I bought a 78 devon poptop in September 2015 paid £2100 was a project first one I looked at, learnt my lesson, sold it around may time 2018 for £1000 kept the engine though,

    February 2016 bought a 70 prototype bay tin top again was a project but not as bad paid £1000 for it with body cuts to repair it but not engine or gearbox engine and gearbox cost me £650 took a gamble on both and luckily they have served me well, I would estimate it has cost me £4500 including purchase price and engine gearbox, took me a year every weekend give or take.

    Then September 2017 I bought a 74 rhd single cab for £1000 again big project but I love it, probably cost me £2500 to date including purchase of the pick up,

    I'll add some photos so you get the idea of how crap they looked :lol:
     
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  7. 6k for ours. Maybe a bit too much but not outrageously so. Spent about 4k on it.
    To put it in perspective though, in the 9 yrs we've had it, we've lost 12k in depreciation on the the 2 modern cars we've owned.....
     
  8. £16k for mine in 2012. Solid ‘74 with no rust and a sound as a pound engine. Since then it’s cost me a few hundred quid for some niceties that I’ve done to it (heating, new electrics etc) and the price of a house with a side alley big enough to build a car port to keep it dry :thumbsup:

    The way I figure it, we definitely spent more than we should, more than we had and more than we wanted to, but I’ve never spent better money in my life! Wouldn’t swap him for the world!
     
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  9. CollyP

    CollyP Moderator

    You spelled Barn wrongly!! :)
     
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  10. £7500 but it is worth £15,000 now
     
  11. bernjb56

    bernjb56 Supporter

    I am not a nutter :gnome:
     
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  12. You sure :D
     
  13. bernjb56

    bernjb56 Supporter

    The voices told me :thumbsup:
     
  14. Dub and Dubber

    Dub and Dubber Supporter

    Its complicated ...
    The "short" version is:
    Setting aside the losses to "charlatan Jon" we have a spiffing bus with an agreed value for insurance of £30,000, that has cost £20,000, with a gearbox yet to change out (arf arf) and heater cables to investigate ...
    No, I'm not a "cock with a fat wad". There was a pension pot sitting, having quietly accumulated without premiums for some years, which was a good lump but Marmitee on the pay-out-at-maturity front, so that got stripped out ...
    The other bus owes me £8,000 but wouldn't sell for more than half that at the moment, which is why I'm about to get into the spirit of the thing and take on the prep and paint ... which should get me to a kind of "break even" point on that one.
    Could have sold the nice one for mid twenties but would have been left feeling like I was back at square one having been beaten by the a**e who saw me and my enthusiasm coming a mile off .........
    The holy grail is to keep both buses and use the dog's one to earn running costs for both by doing weddings (and maybe photo booth at parties)
    so we can get back to the original plan of touring the coast of Britain in our "retirement".......
    So I've "paid" dearly in time and aggro, but the hard numbers not looking too bad.
     
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  15. Don’t listen :D
     
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  16. £2950 back in 2003. Was a usable bus, but took it off the road one year later for a Resto that took 10 years!
     
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  17. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    Is that an officially verified fact, or just your defence mechanism kicking in?
     
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  18. I think I made a loss
    Of about 20k however it was fun
    But I never liked the van as much as my
    First van
    My perfect 73 westy which I sold to the
    Ken hippie types with too much money who destroyed it
    I should really of just sold a kidney
    Rather than sell it to them see you next Tuesdays when I needed the money :mad:
     
    Last edited: Sep 3, 2018
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  19. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    Pretty good resto too. Should last another 20 years easily
     
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  20. :lol:Well be prepared to be disappointed that’s what I say
    I got far less than what it was valued at!
     
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