October 17th, 2009
Hippie Bus
It is 2009. Are there that many Hippies hanging out in Kansas that someone needed to manufacture this mobile version of the Spahn’s Movie Ranch?
Kansas
It is 2009. Are there that many Hippies hanging out in Kansas that someone needed to manufacture this mobile version of the Spahn’s Movie Ranch?
Kansas
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I WANT THAT!
October 17th, 2009
HIPPIE
October 17th, 2009
It’s the kansas verison of a double decker bus. Go figure it isn’t quite right.
October 17th, 2009
and it gets about 2 miles per gallon.
October 17th, 2009
That is just plain bad-ass
October 17th, 2009
I wanna drive it….Awesome with that upper level smoking deck….yeahhhhhhhhhh…
October 17th, 2009
LOL I remember my first joint now
October 17th, 2009
When you’re trying to pickup little kids, you might as well double your odds by putting a creepy van on top of a school bus. You’re almost guaranteed schoolyard hookups.
October 17th, 2009
It’s The Partridge Family meets Major Dad!
October 17th, 2009
Can that thing actually clear an overpass? I know it can’t make it through a drive-thru!
October 17th, 2009
I would’nt mind riding in that!! lol
October 17th, 2009
But You can drive from the V W. The matching 2 tone paint is another plus & talk about sales appeal. If they decide to sell, People will fly in from as far away as Kansas City…………Or Not.
October 17th, 2009
HA!!! Hilarious comment on this one!
October 17th, 2009
One word comes to mind . . . Deliverance!
October 17th, 2009
They see me rollin’. They hatin’.
October 17th, 2009
Um,,,, how tall is that thing?
Can it take out a bridge?
Hmmmm I think it would be good to put a cam on top, so you could see how close to tall bridges it really is!!
N
October 17th, 2009
Now that’s what I call a Magic School Bus!
October 17th, 2009
It could only be better if it were;
A) painted to look like the Partridge family bus, or
B) painted to look like the Scooby-Doo Mystery Machine, or
C) painted to look like the A-Team van.
October 17th, 2009
Fabulous…. absolutely fabulous……..
October 17th, 2009
in today’s headline…. “World’s 1st “bus mating” Verified With Photographic Evidence”
October 17th, 2009
i just want to know what you would be doing in a bus where you need all that extra headroom
October 17th, 2009
It’s clearly a DUI double decker tour bus. “Welcome to Walmart! To your right is a woman with dread locks. Look closely, she’s not wearing anything under that skimpy dress. And to the left, you’ll see a man in a bikini.”
October 17th, 2009
This says horror movie more than hippie to me!
October 17th, 2009
The first overpass or low bridge and that thing is history. But, I’ve heard that Kansas is mostly flat so maybe there aren’t too many obstacles that would destroy this “creation”.
October 17th, 2009
he’s carrying along the VW for when the Ford breaks down..
October 17th, 2009
VANTASTIC!!!
October 17th, 2009
What a waste of a good Volkswagen!!!
October 17th, 2009
This very same bus was at a Walmart in Arkansas too….recruiting?
October 17th, 2009
A wart on an ass.
October 17th, 2009
i wouldn’t classify it as hippie. if it was hippie, it would have trippy colors and be pretty. it looks more redneck to me…lol…
October 17th, 2009
well at least it doesnt say “Get Money Fuck Bitches” on the side
October 17th, 2009
This has to be the coolest car on the site
October 17th, 2009
well at least it doesnt say “Get Money F*&% B*tches”
October 17th, 2009
Somewhere in Kansas, an Autobot & and the Mystery Machine from Scooby Doo had a baby.
October 17th, 2009
I wonder if the V W is the kind that had the pop up camper top? That would be even more strange.
October 17th, 2009
Maybe it’s Susan Atkin’s hearse?
October 17th, 2009
I REALLY WANT THAT IT LOOKS SO COOL AND CHECK ME OUT ON YOUTUBE MY USER NAME IS ZINK444!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS
October 17th, 2009
WOW Thats like something out of Mad Max!
October 17th, 2009
Inspired by the recent Transformers movie and their common bond for psychadelic sixties style, the Scooby Doo gang and the Patridge Family combine forces, and their rides, to create an elite musical mystery unit called “Patridge Doo”.
October 17th, 2009
Welders don’t let your fellow welders weld drunk
October 17th, 2009
This is a food vendor at festivals and fairs in the midwest. Awesome good sammitches and coffee! Can’t wait for next year!
October 17th, 2009
Maybe its a mobile duck blind?
October 17th, 2009
“Like, WOWWWWWWWWWWWW, Mannnnnnnnnnn…. Weren’t you kids supposed to be in school like an hour ago, mannnn?”
October 17th, 2009
Well I see that they have taken our hillbilly storage building on the road now.
October 17th, 2009
My husband and i seen this bus in Dickinson, North Dakota about 3 1/2 years ago….LOL it cracked me up then and it still does!!!!!
October 17th, 2009
AH HELL! I’d recognize that hill in the background anywhere! How embarrassing!
October 17th, 2009
It’s kinda symbolic of the whole state of education these days: lefty is humping the huge government system, and they both look like crap.
October 17th, 2009
dude that bus is awesome…i wonder if you can ride in the top part too????
October 17th, 2009
c’mon get happy!
-The Big Cheese
http://www.RumorRat.com
October 17th, 2009
Istambul public transportation – fits 250 uncomfortably – tips at 17mph
October 17th, 2009
Hippies suck. Hippies that put a small bus on top of a big bus suck just that much more.
October 17th, 2009
hey!! do you mind if my micro-bus catches a ride on your school bus ?? No ?? peace =)
October 17th, 2009
its photo chopped. there is no way you could take this anywhere. it would not fit under most overpasses
October 17th, 2009
It’s the poor man’s Space Shuttle
October 17th, 2009
I only hope there’s a spiral staircase inside to take you up to the 2nd story LOVE NEST!
October 17th, 2009
Thats balloon boys parents other ride.
October 17th, 2009
A bus and a VW did the deed…and this was the offspring
October 17th, 2009
Would that thing even be street legal?
October 17th, 2009
Wow…just wow…can’t say any more…need more weed…
October 17th, 2009
I’m so proud to be from the Manhattan, Kansas, Walmart now!
October 17th, 2009
I just saw bus parked at a fair, It was a Mobile restaurant. Grilled Wraps.
October 17th, 2009
That’s interesting; there’s one of those ex-school buses with a VW welded to it around here in Colorado Springs too. It’s a play on those old train cars with the observation decks I guess.
October 17th, 2009
Mother gives birth in Walmart parking lot, names the baby Wally…
October 17th, 2009
It’s the Westboro Baptist Church limo
October 17th, 2009
Theres NO magic going on with that school bus.
October 18th, 2009
Looks like the VW Bus is humping the School Bus which produce really ugly offspring that shop inside Walmart.
October 18th, 2009
Makes me proud to be from Kansas…LOL
October 18th, 2009
Seriously, make another site for the wal-cars. They suck. I just wanna look at fat people in ill-fitting clothing.
October 18th, 2009
What I want to know: can the vehicle actually be driven from the upper driver’s seat? If so, they have achieved an engineering miracle.
October 18th, 2009
really??? really??? this is what my local walmart has been reduced to???? I actually saw this thing in the parking lot…didn’t know what the hell it was!
October 18th, 2009
I thought this was People of WalMart, not random vehicles in random parking lots that may or may not be WalMart. It’s not rocket surgery! Cmon!
October 18th, 2009
Oooh double decker, very fancy, very european. lol
October 18th, 2009
They must be lost. Lawrence is a little over an hour east of there.
October 18th, 2009
OMG MANHATTAN! I WAS THERE LAST WEEKEND! INSANEEEEE!!!
October 18th, 2009
Nothing about this says “hippy” but there are a lot of hippies in KS.
I’ve seen similar home made double busses, including a 1950′s Chevy school bus with a 1990′s Dodge Caravan body welded to the top. The kids would sit in it and pretend to drive it. It was 13’2″ so it would clear bridges that are 13’6 CLEARANCE.
October 18th, 2009
It looks like it would be cool to stay in at deer camp. Plenty of room, dry, and comes with it’s own shooting tower!
October 18th, 2009
Whoa whoa whoa. You’re telling me I’ve lived in Kansas my entire life and haven’t seen this yet? I NEED TO SEE THIS BUS!
October 18th, 2009
dude that shits rockin!dead was just on tour thats not surprising.shit i want one.thats what you call a get fucked up mobile! were still around!
October 18th, 2009
I actually live in Kansas. If I ever see this van, I will bow down and worship at the foot of it. I have never actually met a hippie since I have lived here, which has been for almost 10 years. A wide variety of other people, but not many hippies.
October 18th, 2009
whack
October 18th, 2009
so cool!
October 18th, 2009
He just couldn’t part with the VW so he had to do something with it.
October 18th, 2009
I live in Kansas and see those Hippie buses all the time. Mmmm, now where did I put my bong?
October 18th, 2009
Oh! How nice……a mobile penthouse with a view…..Yep! We’re movin’ on up!……….
October 18th, 2009
Ha. This was taken in the Wal-Mart parking lot in Manhattan, Kansas. You can see the MANHATTAN sign on the hill.
October 18th, 2009
Yo Dawg, I heard you like buses, so we put a bus in yo bus, so yo can ride in yo bus while riding in yo bus.
October 18th, 2009
Ladies and Gentlemen The Partidge Family featuring the Grateful Dead.
October 18th, 2009
what a lame ass photo…doesn’t even look like it’s in a walmart parking lot.
October 18th, 2009
awww it has a baby! or a sun dome!!!
October 18th, 2009
I remember seeing that bus or one just like it on tour with the Dead many, many years ago. That thing was like a clown car for hippies.
October 18th, 2009
I love it! I wonder if the VW is where they sleep?
October 18th, 2009
Got dropped there in one of those Kansas twisters and they just decided it worked.
October 18th, 2009
im just picturing that thing driving under an overpass thats like 10′ clearance…..”wtf just happened??!”
October 18th, 2009
Someone in Eugene Oregon is missing their bus.
October 18th, 2009
I used to see it in Maryland when the Grateful Dead was in town – I believe they sold burritos and stuff – don’t know what other “stuff” I can only imagine… still AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 18th, 2009
It’s a skylight type unit…pretty groovy if you ask me!!
October 18th, 2009
Hahaha, I’ve seen that bus at our walmart before!! Go Manhattan, KS!
October 18th, 2009
Wow…It’s almost artistic…
October 18th, 2009
Obviously nobody else here has ever been to a Rainbow Gathering. I’ve seen this bus many times, and some even more interesting vehicles in this vein.
When you drive something like this you look at *every* overpass clearance sign, and you get very used to talking to cops.
October 18th, 2009
Austrailan for Double Decker……
October 18th, 2009
There’s the old saying, “You can’t polish a turd”. Clearly, if you have enough TurtleWax you can…
October 18th, 2009
lol the little ones like a penthouse…. all the smoke is gonna rise up to the top
October 18th, 2009
That looks like one of the Art Vehicles from Burning Man.
October 18th, 2009
This is very cool. I’m guessing they have stairs inside so you can get to the VW part. Looks like lots of fun.
October 18th, 2009
Teenage dreams in a teenage circus
Running around like a clown on purpose
Who gives a damn about the family you come from?
No giving up when you’re young and you want some
Running around again
Running for running
Waking up
In the midday sun
What’s to live for?
You could see what I’ve done
Staring at emotion
In the light of day
I was running
From the things that you’d say
We are not what you think we are
We are golden, we are golden.
We are not what you think we are
We are golden, we are golden.
Teenage dreams in a teenage circus
Running around like a clown on purpose
Who gives a damn about the family you come from?
No giving up when you’re young and you want some
Running around again
Running for running
Running around again
Running for running
I was a boy
At an open door
Why you staring
Do you still think that you know?
Looking for treasure
In the things that you threw
Like a magpie
I live for glitter, not you
We are not what you think we are
We are golden, we are golden.
We are not what you think we are
We are golden, we are golden.
Teenage dreams in a teenage circus
Running around like a clown on purpose
Who gives a damn about the family you come from
No giving up when you’re young and you want some
Now I’m sitting alone
I’m finally looking around
Left here on my own
I’m gonna hurt myself
Maybe losing my mind
I’m still wondering why
Had to let the world let it bleed dry
We are not what you think we are
We are not what you think we are
We are not what you think we are
We are golden, we are golden
Teenage dreams in a teenage circus
Running around like a clown on purpose
Who gives a damn about the family you come from
No giving up when you’re young and you want some
Running around again
Running for running
Running around again
Running for running
We are not what you think we are
We are golden, we are golden.
- Lyrics by MIKA
October 18th, 2009
Belchee:
That is getting old……
October 18th, 2009
That’s Manhattan! That’s Manhattan! I go there! (Though Lawrence is way better, go KU)
October 18th, 2009
I see that bus every year at the gathering of the vibes festival, and they do sell burritos and stuff I beleive, if I remember correctly
((((Grateful Dead))))))
October 18th, 2009
Slugbug green and brown.
October 18th, 2009
That’s the Kind Veggie Burrito Bus most frequently seen on tour with the Grateful Dead.
I think it was parked in East Lansing, Michigan for a while. That bus is famous.
October 19th, 2009
This is what comes out for k-state home games.
October 19th, 2009
It’s a mobile “Love Shack”. >:)
October 19th, 2009
Like Volkswagon, school is also a joke.
October 19th, 2009
Make about a thousand of those covered with armor plating, bullet proof glass and filled with Marines sticking a 50 cal. and rocket launcher out of EVERY window and turn them loose in Iraq.
October 19th, 2009
Ha! Thats in Manhattan! I live there! Awesome!!!!!
October 19th, 2009
OMG that is in a board game I have called redneck life (ha ha) its called the “VISTA DOME”!
October 19th, 2009
OMG! I saw that bus in Colorado a few weeks ago!!!
October 19th, 2009
That’s Kansas for you!! and Yes to your question…there really ARE that many hippies here!!
October 19th, 2009
That’s what is called a “FLEETWOOD MACK”
October 19th, 2009
If this van’s a-smokin’….it just means we’re tokin’!
October 19th, 2009
This is a travesty. Scooby Doo’s mystery machine has been hi-jacked by the Partridge family bus.
October 19th, 2009
the bus has been all over the country….over and under all kinds o passes…it was built with all in mind….the overhead is for ventilation…it is a mobile cafe traveling to music festivals!
October 19th, 2009
I’ve seen that bus! They sell coffee at music festivals.
October 19th, 2009
Does it come with militia required gun turrets on the VW expansion kit?
October 19th, 2009
So THAT’S what happened to the bus from Richard Pryor’s movie, “Bustin’ Loose!” Walmart shoppers are very socially conscious and always recycle!
October 19th, 2009
this makes me sad, this was taken in my home town of Manhattan, KS…and people ask why I left that town.
October 19th, 2009
Yeah, that place is AWESOME! Wood floors and everything in it. It’s actually a fully funtional cafe serving a bunch of different stuff….
October 19th, 2009
Is the upper V W the penthouse?
October 19th, 2009
I assure you, Kansas has more hippies than people like to think. That bus is at home during Wakarusa Fest in Lawrence.
October 19th, 2009
Well, to all the wondering folks, this is THE Birdsong Cafe, hailing from Kansas. Making awesome grilled wraps, cold- brewed coffee, and yummy treats. We do rainbow gatherings and go on dead tour . . . and love to give tours if your nice. If you see us on the road give us a honk, not the finger . . . we like people, and music and having a good time.
October 19th, 2009
good ol manhattan… kansas is definitely full of hippies =p
October 19th, 2009
The Birdsong Cafe opened for business at the Kansas Sampler in ’08 and was one of the most popular vendor there! They serve really good paninni sandwiches, fresh pressed apple cider, gourmet coffees, etc… The people who operate it are not rednecks or hillbillies! Just some nice folks having fun!
October 19th, 2009
Now thats what I call a Party Mobile!
October 20th, 2009
thats the veggie burrito bus from the dead circuit circa 1991
October 20th, 2009
I saw this driving down the freeway in Missouri!
October 20th, 2009
I am pretty sure I have been in that bus, nice people!
October 20th, 2009
I sooo want that!
October 20th, 2009
Hey, that’s a great cafe! And it gets at least 5 mpg, not 2! I’m sure the USMC would be honored to be seen in it. Semper Fi !
October 20th, 2009
Yeah, and you’d think that thing would be in Lawrence, not Manhattan. Maybe they got confused because they hot-boxed the van. Or maybe they didn’t get the memo that Wakarusa was cancelled?
October 20th, 2009
That’s actually kind of cool in a weird, weird sort of way.
October 21st, 2009
Vannibus!!!
October 21st, 2009
That is so freakin’ cool. Like for real.
October 21st, 2009
It kinda looks like the hippie van tried to jump the bus and missed.
October 22nd, 2009
I hate to say it, but with a better paint job that would make an excellent tour bus for a band or something. couldn’t you just imagine going on a road trip in one of those things. It would be like having a room up top just to get high and admire the scenery.
October 22nd, 2009
Some old friends knew a guy who used to put VW’s onto buses at least 20 years ago in Arizona or up in Oregon. His name was Silverbear and he built alot of these things. Some school buses were chopped and raised to allow for kitchen cabinets and overhead beds. People could live in them out in the woods. My friends bus could carry the teepee poles for their huge, awsome white teepee. Those were the days…
October 22nd, 2009
I’ve seen that bus at LifeLight in sufu!
October 22nd, 2009
THE WHEELS ON THE BUS GO ROUND N ROUND. . . . .
October 23rd, 2009
I’ve seen that bus in Knoxville too. It usually means that a Widespread Panic show isn’t too far away.
October 23rd, 2009
The VW camper body is probably a sleeping loft.. A well-done school bus would be and awesome RV.
October 23rd, 2009
+1 for working in a Manson Family reference for an oldie like me.
October 24th, 2009
Kansas is the armpit of the US.
October 24th, 2009
What model year did VW start putting school buses on the microbus for tires – was this a special model just for Kansas ?
Snow maybe ?????
October 24th, 2009
Love the reference to true crime! Great Pic!
October 26th, 2009
That’s Manhattan KS! I live there I have never seen this bus combo before, I now have something to look for around town. The things that are built in a college town known for engineering. WOW
October 27th, 2009
I think I saw that at Burning Man.
October 28th, 2009
I just saw that bus in New Mexico, about 4 months ago.
October 29th, 2009
I’ve been on that bus.
October 30th, 2009
I live in Nor-Cal, and I saw a bus just like that the other day, but w/ 2 VWs on the roof instead of one. Plus some ridiculous hippy mural covering it… That sort of thing is normal around here.
October 31st, 2009
this is uh-mazn lol -anna
what is the purpose of this?-abby
November 1st, 2009
I saw a bus just like this in my town one hot Summer and it was full of people handing out pamphlets and trying to get impressionable teenagers to get on the bus by offering them water… I had to tell them to leave my Cumberland Farms parking lot hahahaha there should be a people of Cumby’s website
November 1st, 2009
Lmao this is the bus we are taking to hell!
November 1st, 2009
I became deeply confused, now I only want to commission all my money so I may own one of these precious vehicles. Why not have Volkswagen try and construct these for all schools? That would make truant students wish to attend, and also solve the potential boredom on bus rides. Just that pulling up to your curb every morning signifies an apocalypse coming. I’d still hail that rather than a cab, any day!
November 3rd, 2009
oh my god. i live by that walmart! i have experienced that bus!
November 3rd, 2009
this is not a hippie bus this ”vehicle” belongs to the mayor of edgerton ks.
November 3rd, 2009
the mayor of edgerton ks sure has style!
November 3rd, 2009
awww thats awesome! diggin the upper deck. it was on a road trip man. its not stationed in kansas. it couldnt be.
November 5th, 2009
Those are the rich hippies.
November 5th, 2009
i think i saw that bus at bonnaroo
November 5th, 2009
This is the awesomest thing ever accomplished in man kind! For get about curing cancer and H1N1! Make about a 100,000 of these!
November 6th, 2009
It’s probably just driving through Kansas. I think I saw that bus at 8 in Indio, CA.
November 10th, 2009
i actually have met this guy.. many years ago at a music festival (big surprise, eh)
it was really tricked out on the inside and the VW part was the “master bedroom”
he sold pizza by the slice out of it.
his name was josh.
November 11th, 2009
OMG those 12 tribes people are f*cking crazy! they talk to you with their eyes so wide you can see the white all around their pupils… i still have one of their pamphlets! they actually sleep on that d*mn bus, and spend a LOT of time in Kansas City bothering IHOP’ers and other people outside of the convention centers.
November 11th, 2009
I’m totally impressed.
November 12th, 2009
Haha…that’s my neighbor’s bus…his house is painted the same colors…
November 12th, 2009
I was just showing this picture to a friend. He said this bus travels around northwest Arkansas and the people sell sandwiches out of it. These people own a deli on Dickson Street in Fayetteville. My friend also said the sandwiches are pretty good.
November 14th, 2009
That was at the 10,000 lakes festival in MN a couple years ago! It is actually a great little coffee shop type vending bus.
November 15th, 2009
Look….It’s in Manhattan. Go Figure!!!
November 17th, 2009
WTF I SEEN THIS IN COLORADO SPRINGS HOORAY
November 17th, 2009
Possibly the coolest conversion vehicle ever.
November 19th, 2009
I saw this, or one just like this in Hesperia, CA about a month ago parked outside an Arco gas station!! It was like a mobile coffee shop, how cool is that.
November 21st, 2009
This is a really nice custom bus.
November 21st, 2009
That’s a tailgating bus!
November 26th, 2009
That’s the popup-camper feature, except this one doesn’t popup. Honest, I saw one like it on a newer motorhome at one of the dealers.
November 30th, 2009
Holy ****, I saw that bus broke down on the side of the road about 5 years ago!
December 1st, 2009
Yep, that’s the Manhattan, KS wal-mart parking lot alright. You can see the “Manhattan’ sign in the background. I’ve probably been there a million and a half times.
January 7th, 2011
I love how u can see the Manhattan hill in back ground that is deft Manhattan Kansas walmart
November 22nd, 2011
These people were on True Life on MTV. They broke down there on their way to Cali. I don’t know what ever happened to them, but they were there for about a week or so.
May 17th, 2012
saw this in ventura, california about a month ago. it was parked near my house. i saw a cop writing a ticket and i screamed “NOOOO!!!” out the window.
December 30th, 2012
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