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Von Dutch's bus being restored, check it out!

Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2013 9:43 am
by Sisyphus
Came across this on a machinist's forum. Never thought a bus was something a respectable character would live in but this is pretty goddamned cool:
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Re: Von Dutch's bus being restored, check it out!

Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2013 1:04 pm
by xtian
the bullet holes are a very classy touch

Re: Von Dutch's bus being restored, check it out!

Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2013 4:20 pm
by kitkat
Well, there's another famous dead guy that i never heard of before...("famous" as judged from how valued his leavings have become-- i mean 5mil for that thing?!?)

Re: Von Dutch's bus being restored, check it out!

Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 7:34 am
by Sisyphus
Never heard of him? He's like a contemporary of Big Daddy Ross. You should google some images of his stuff.
But yeah, the best thing one can do for one's art career is die.

Re: Von Dutch's bus being restored, check it out!

Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 8:54 am
by kitkat
OK, the flying eyeball i've seen be4. and i see also that his family sold his name to a designer clothing line which became popular among 90's'early 20's a-list celebs..so now i understand the $-angle, thanks. :)

Re: Von Dutch's bus being restored, check it out!

Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 11:58 am
by Pattio
Neat stuff.

at first I was like 'machinist's forum whaa' because I only knew about the pin striping, but on reading I thought it was pretty cool.

And by pretty cool, I'm not sure exactly what I mean, since I bet the bus 'as he lived in it' is probably pretty gross, and I bet the guy was mentally diseased, and I'm not sure where the big dollar valuations are coming from.

So 'Neat' it is then.

Re: Von Dutch's bus being restored, check it out!

Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 1:16 pm
by Sisyphus
I think he was a big boozer. If you have to live in a bus that has escape hatches built into the roof and the floor, there was probably good reason.

Re: Von Dutch's bus being restored, check it out!

Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 8:30 pm
by guitargeek
Sisyphus wrote:But yeah, the best thing one can do for one's art career is die.
Don't get any ideas, Piccini.