underdog said:*Do you still have that bus? Too cool !!😎 *
It definitely was cool at the time. I bought the ol' UniBus from Greg
Barnier, a member of the Redford Township Unicycle Club, in early 1984 I
believe. Drove it to Unicon I with a starter that wouldn't work after
long drives. I got the paint job done in the fall of 1984, just before
moving from Michigan to New York. This was accompanied by a bondo job,
and a guarantee from the guy who did the work (a friend from school)
that "I guarantee that this car will probably start to show rust again
within a year."
But he used a great quality of paint, and the car looked great long
after the engine blew up in early 1986 (prox. 150,000 miles). The amount
of deep rusts did not warrant repairing the bus. It then served as a
storage shed at 67 Lion Lane (the Jenack house) for several years before
finally being sold to a neighbor who thought he'd fix it up. I saw it
once at a repair shop after that, but that was it.
Probably more information than you wanted, eh? here's insult added to
injury: That bus, a '74, was replaced briefly by a '71. The difference
was, the '74 came with a Porche engine, and the '71 basically contained
a Bug engine. No power. After that I got a Subaru wagon. When I moved to
CA in 1994 I started with a Dodge Caravan. I had three of those (85, 91,
2000), but now I have a Toyota Sienna. As cool as the old UniBus looked,
the Sienna is more comfortable, more reliable, more functional, more
luxurious, and about a hundred times safer to be in. In the old VW
buses, a moderate crosswind would always translate into a wrestling
match with the steering wheel just to go straight...
Note to Unicus: Okay, the seat comes in a little above my ankles. But
it's well below the knees!
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