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Title: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: bubbaqgal on November 14, 2008, 03:53:10 AM
Happy Birthday!!!  We hope you have a day full of love, laughter, family and plenty of bus dreams that will come true.
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: HighTechRedneck on November 14, 2008, 03:26:20 PM
Happy Birthday Peabody! Here's hoping your having a great day.  May the joy of the day carry forward all through the coming year.
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: PADoug on November 14, 2008, 03:38:35 PM
Wonder if she got her Eagle... ::) ::)  :D

Happy Birthday!  ;D ;D

Doug
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: Dreamscape on November 14, 2008, 04:13:35 PM
Happy Birthday Peabody!

Why don't you tell us what you bought? I know but I won't tell! ::)

Hope you are having a great day and eating lots of ice cream and cake! Don't forget to laugh alot! :D

Paul
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: Dallas on November 14, 2008, 05:23:52 PM
To paraphrase a song...

Happy, Happy, Birthday Lady!

I hope the day has been a good one for you, after all, it's not every year you get to turn 27!  ;D

Dallas
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: Peabody on November 14, 2008, 05:38:09 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
Wouldn't want to be 27 again but I'd sure love to have my 27 year old body again,lol My skin was a little tighter now it is just wider.lol Peabody ;D
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: Peabody on November 14, 2008, 06:22:08 PM
Dangit,my first post went into cyber space.My day started off very interesting I learned something new,how to change a  circuit breaker.Wasn't hard at all just a little scary afraid I'd set the house on fire,lol. But I didn't so  that was  a good thing.Okay,I'll tell you all what I bought.The bad news is that it ain't my Eagle(I wish).Okay I'm looking through Craigs list and I see  87'Beaver Marquis so I went to  take  a look see.Wasn't expecting to see much but what the heck,I have time to kill and the price was right.What I found was  a very well taken care of coach with a  3208 300hp. cat on a Gillig  chassis and Allison tranny(automatic).Inside I found solid oak cabinets,not1 but 2 ovens,a huge refrigerator,an ice maker, and lots more,basically every thing I want on my bus,and every thing works.So I bought it with the thought in my mind that one day I will have my bus and have all the goodies from this well taken care of coach to put into my bus.I know this one is a stick and staple but as of yet I haven't found one staple  and I've tried.For a stick and staple it's pretty well built and good enough to sit in the driveway  as my home.So I see it as a win,win situation.Hope you can be happy for me. Peabody
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: Dreamscape on November 14, 2008, 08:00:58 PM
Any pictures to share?
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: JohnEd on November 14, 2008, 08:21:12 PM
Peabody,

Happy Birthday and many returns.

Great news about the Beaver.  They were a really nice old coach.  I envy you!

John
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: Sojourner on November 14, 2008, 08:25:03 PM
Happy Birthday to you...Peabody! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m78l28tcIE0) (left click)

A very special day of the year that you deserve the very best!

Have a great day!   

Gerald & Lynette
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: Peabody on November 14, 2008, 08:32:32 PM
Yep,these are the before pics, I've done a bit of work since bringing it home.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mspeabody/sets/72157608008994555/

I have taken out the two chairs and in their place have added  a desk and electric fireplace.Covered the couch put down an area rug,going to replace carpet this spring.Laid a new kitchen floor.Started Taking the carpet off the walls replacing with a low nap Berber in neutral color,keeping with the carpet cause it adds to the insulation,plus doesn't look bad.putting in a new backsplash in kitchen,and last but not least tearing out the carpet in the bathroom and replacing with tile.
I'll take some after pics so you can see the transition.Oh and I need that eagle from the one down in Vancouver to put on my great pretender.lol Peabody  
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: JohnEd on November 14, 2008, 09:06:01 PM
Peabody,

That is so very very nice.  Lucky you.

Did you buy her from a private party local or is she from Ebay or?

Stay happy and in the B Day mood.

John
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: Peabody on November 14, 2008, 11:01:15 PM
Found her  on Craigs list she was a mere 120 miles away.She is in amazing shape well cared for.Just couldn't say no even if she isn't a bus. Peabody
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: Dreamscape on November 15, 2008, 03:23:38 AM
Good find Peabody!

One of these days your dream will turn into a reality, in the meantime HAVE FUN! Nice looking, even though it is a S&S ::)

Paul
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: Peabody on November 15, 2008, 06:26:59 AM
Thank-You all for making my Birthday so special. Big Hugs Peabody :-*
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: luvrbus on November 15, 2008, 06:36:38 AM
Peabody nothing wrong with older Beavers one of the best Class A coaches ever built, to bad Monaco took it over and closed it down good luck
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: HighTechRedneck on November 15, 2008, 07:16:09 AM
Congrats!  It looks like a great find! 

Many of the folks here started with a conventional motorhome and then built the bus of their dreams later.  You are still a busnut as long as you dream of having a bus.  Besides, it is built on a Gillig frame.
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: Peabody on November 15, 2008, 07:37:20 AM
LOL She's a bus undercover or maybe in disguise or how about incognito.lol  Hugs Peabody
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: Dallas on November 15, 2008, 10:47:34 AM
I was in Cognito once, but I moved to the state of Chaos.  :D

DF
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: Peabody on November 15, 2008, 12:48:44 PM
You have to give me a warning next time you decide to turn into a comic,  I just about spit a mouth full of coffee onto my laptop. Roflmao, Peabody ;D
Title: Re: Happy Birthday Peabody
Post by: bubbaqgal on November 15, 2008, 01:56:01 PM
Count your blessings Peabody....I have to live with him.   ;D ::)
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