One for the Road

I sold a sign on eBay to a guy who had previously bought a few enamel signs from me in the past...

- DAVE RICHARDS

"I usually send items the next day, but on this occasion the post office was closed, so because the item only had a few miles to travel I delivered it on my way from work. At this point I didn’t really give any old VW a second glance as I had been completely bored at college by a lad that I had the misfortune to share a ride with for a few weeks back in my late teens”.

The guy to whom Kevin Williams was delivering on that fateful day, Rick, offered to sell ‘Hattie the Frankenbus’. It’s a complete oddity and consists of what appears to be the bodywork of a shortened bay panelvan complete with the narrowest sliding door in the world, but with the rear of a split pick up grafted on. A kind of bay/split triple cab! Like the bus’ owner and many, many other people, I have never seen anything quite like it before or since. It was apparently done a long time ago by an owner who has become lost in the mists of time. There are shades of 1970’s custom about it, and I can only guess that it might have been involved in a biggish shunt. The price Kevin negotiated included the work required to get the bus through a fresh MOT.