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Hi,

Name's Mike and I live in Gauteng South Africa. Got to your forum cos I'm moving to Melbourne later in the year and was hoping to get bit iof advice on what to do with my bus.

It is an SA spec '59 Crewcab that I restored 10 years ago.

Looks like this





What I'm keen to find out is if anyone here has imported a bus and more or less what to look out for and also what it may be worth in Australia in case I have to sell it.

Later

Hey and welcome... it's worth about $1000, can i buy it?

frenzix wrote:Hey and welcome...

Thanks

frenzix wrote:it's worth about $1000, can i buy it?

I hope that's Aussie humour

welcome definately bring it wth you there few and far between over here and it seems like every second person on this site is looking for one

cheers muzza

Yeah I would bring it over, you can sell it to me if you get sick of it, apparently total imports costs are around $6000 australian, havnt done it myself but I think thats about right, someone else may clear things up if Im wrong

welcome,
ill give you $1200 so tim doesnt get it..

mevans wrote:

frenzix wrote:Hey and welcome...

Thanks

frenzix wrote:it's worth about $1000, can i buy it?

I hope that's Aussie humour

hehe , yes it is.. looks good.. bring her over for sure. Not sure what it's worth, how solid is it, and how much is metal/bondo?

A rusted out DC will go for 10K here..

frenzix wrote:hehe , yes it is.. looks good.. bring her over for sure. Not sure what it's worth, how solid is it, and how much is metal/bondo?

A rusted out DC will go for 10K here..

That's good news. It has a skim coat for flatting purposes. All rust was cut out and panel patches were welded in. It's 100% complete and was my daily driver for a long time. Some rust staring in places but easily dealt with.

I don't really want to sell it but might need to in order to help fund a house. Your property is a lot more expensive than ours so every bit will help.

Could a good one achieve 20k?

short answer, yes

welcome & dont worry about these blokes just taking the mikki, now i will offer you $2000 plus cover the shipping cost for you.

$20,000 if its how you described then yes its achieveable
cheers wally

cool bus, what with those tail lights, thought that was an aussie only thing?..

warb wrote:cool bus, what with those tail lights, thought that was an aussie only thing?..

Well spotted. SA spec for the year would be a single pair. PO had grafted in in a second set of glass lens hella's to act as flickers.

I decided to keep the setup as it was much safer for daily driving than having brake / rear / flickers combined. I stored the glass lenses and replaced with polycarb. Not stock but very easy to rectify.

Thanks for all the feedback on price. Seems like it's probably worth my while to jam the bus in with my household stuff and bring it along.

bring it along for sure.. you wont get one here for the sell/shipping cost.

is the amber glass or plastic?.

Buses are a lot less valuable here. I sold a complete and only just running '57 standard 4 years ago for the equivalent of A$514.00.

Things have picked up a bit a and the '65 standard below which is complete but not running currently has an offer of A$4000. It is stored at my place and belongs to a mate who emigrated to the UK a few years back.