Mark Small

In terms of cost to purchase, they are about the same by the time we get them towed here (neither are plated or insured) although I expect I can get the older one down in price. Well... I guess that isn't quite the right way to say that lol. If I can't get the price of it down,

we will end up going with the newer ones, it's just a matter of how much. Regardless though, the actual price of them is close enough not to matter a lot in the decision.

I could keep going back and forth like I have, telling you my opposing thoughts on them without expressly saying which I prefer, but my preference is becoming more solid each day and as I'll be making the decision likely before this poll is over, I thought I'd share it and why.

I can give you many reasons why this might be the wrong decision lol... But I am heavily leaning towards the older bus. It's going to take a year or so to get it ready, at least, which means I will be a 50 year old in a 50 year old bus.

Beyond that aspect of it... when I think about being done and living in it, whether on the road or on a remote property somewhere, I get the impression I might still be looking for something 'different' if we are in the newer ones as they will always lack that 'coolness' factor.

If I could get a new all-electric bus, it would certainly sway me, but that's not going to happen lol

When I think about fleshing out the build, the newer ones are just a 'what do we need' type question. With the older one, anything that we can, I want to get that is as old (or older) than the bus and I. For example... We do want to have some type of washing machine in it.

I've went back and forth over the whole gamut of options on this one, from the balls you put your clothes in and roll around, to hand cranks, to modern ones. None of them really fit though.