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Last week, we brought your attention to the sale of this 1984 articulated 60-ft MAN bus, once used by Muni to carry passengers around the city back in the day. With a vehicle of such girth and length and reputation, we assumed no one would bid on the monstrosity.
We were wrong.
Blinktag, a local web design/city planning firm in San Francisco, bought the bus for $3,2500 after a total of 11 bids.
Claiming it was worth every penny, Blinktag beamed over the buy. "What’s even sweeter is that we figured every hipster with $10,000 bucks would have bid on this guy, thanks to SFist. But I guess the down economy has come to our rescue once again," they said. "Burning Man, here we come. (We’ll probably pull this to South By Southwest too, depending on its roadworthyness)."
Congrats on the big, new bus, guys. Good luck finding a parking spot for the thing.
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11 bids? seems to me like every hipster with 10,000$ did bid on this bus.
I actually snorted Coke out of my nose at this one.
Thanks!
Snorted Coke out of your nose? you're doing it backwards...
Awesome! Never thought we'd be on SFist!
Re: 11 bids - three of those were ours. Still amazing that rubes run up the auctions like three days before they're over. Learn to snipe, seriously.
-Blinktag
You are now honor bound to pimp that ride. I'll be watching.
Burning Man, here we come.
Totally called that one.
the max speed on that bus is only 55 mph apparently. That means to drive it on the freeway, you're pushing that thing to its limits...which makes it tough to take on the freeway.
still, fixed up right you can really do some fun stuff with buses. I've seen a schoolbus turned into a really really well apportioned Steampunk RV.
1. Tint bus windows
2. Park in the back of the MUNI lot at North Point @ Powell
3. ???
4. Enjoy your new $1.2 Million dollar 300 Sq/Ft Live/Work space
5. Sell rights to newbies from
This whole idea of a burgeoning dot-com company wasting capital to appear "wacky" is giving me flashbacks to 1999. Enjoy it while it lasts fellas!
There is a typo in the above article in the price, it was $3,250 not $32,500. Interestingly, the purple palace, another bendy bus art car at burning man was purchased on ebay for the exact same amount.