I Drove 4,000 MILES FOR THIS! The CRAZIEST Thing I Have Ever Done (Will We Make It Home?!) 

No spoilers!! 😂

You’re are so exceptionally lucky to be able to spend this time with your dad. Really been enjoying your content

That’s going to need a lot of beetle pans.

Your Dad is from the BEST generation...DAMN I MISS MY POPS-YET HE'S WITH ME EVERYDAY 🎉😊

Dude !! Your pops looks so happy man . Like he literally lives for these adventures with you . The bus is gonna be so badass

John my dad drove the exact same flex home when I was ten years old and little by little we converted to a motorhome for our vacation time into Canada to Florida and all the way to Guadalajara Mexico and we were remembers of the Family Motor Coach Association I’m now 73 years old best of luck to you and your father so many memories for me thanks soooo much for sharing this!!!!

Dad is an absolute legend

I just found your channel thanks to the algorithm recommendation for this video. As a retired state trooper, I was cringing when you and your dad were on the side of the road doing repairs. It's good to see him wearing the safety vest and being as safe as he can. Looking forward to going through and watching your other videos!

My great uncle worked for Flexible in Loudonville, Ohio in the 40’s to the 60’s. He made 1/2 size wood models for pre-production engineers. He also made the wood bucks for the sheet metal smiths. My father worked there one year (to play basketball) and did sheet metal work. My father joined the Navy during WW II and was an aviation metal smith in Alameda, CA and Guam. Thank you for sharing. My great uncle Lester played a big role in the design of your bus.

So cool that you’re dad is down for all of this!

lol I literally have driven by that bus a 101 time and thought about asking about it several times. Glad to see it’s going to be saved. It’s a beautiful work of art.

Love your work John. Welcome to the clipper owners club! Best vehicle on the road! Can’t wait to see what you do with it. From the Flxible Clipper club of Australia!

Refreshed RU-vid so many times and it was worth it!! Didn’t expect a bus😂 Love from SA🇿🇦

I enjoyed this. I bought an old Wanderlodge 12 years ago and flew out and drove it 3000 miles home. It was a very eventful trip. I have worked on it ever since and just finished repowering it which was a three year project. I bought a Freightliner Century for the drivetrain, and dismantled it and saved and used everything down to wiring harness and nuts and bolts.My suggestion to you would buy a complete Topkick and salvage the Duramax, the Allison transmission and also the axles. If you use one donor vehicle everything plays well together and you will spend much less time chasing unobtainable parts.

You should talk with Bus Grease Monkey. He has a whole RU-vid channel working and renovating old buses. He may have a few pointers for you.

Your Dad is one hell of a Man!!!! All my respect, and one bad ass bus.. Joe Duran

I don’t know how I’ve never seen your channel before, love your builds, love this concept. I am so on board and subscribed.

The front end on that bus is so cool.

Your dad’s great, and you are both mega resourceful. Can’t wait to see it in action.

Undeniably the most underrated channel on RU-vid, congrats on the new build and some core memories with your dad!

Your fathers bad ass. From the fire prevention invention to the quick thinking fix of the trailor. What a sick project too

Been waiting for this one! Stoked to settle in and enjoy. That fire lance your father made is sick!

This is absolutely unreal!! I cant wait to see what you do with it. You and your Dad are a great team its so nice to see!!

What a beast this things going to be when its done. I cannot... CANNOT wait to see it done.

Man, I am smiling all the way through. To do such a crazy drive with your dad is a blessing. The bus is unbelievably cool. Right up your alley❤

We had a Clipper bus for our wedding. It was fully restored and luxury inside with a bar fridge & cold drinks. The guy had a few of them and at least 2 fully restored ones (Clipper Limousines) Can’t wait to see how you go with it!

Only 5 minutes into the video and your Dad is awesome! My Dad is the same way! Back to the video… 🤙

the art deco influenced styling is phenomenal, what a great example of design, workmanship and badassery :)

Go back and get the Van for Dad

Hell yeah a pops road trip and we get to see the cab over what else can we want. Enjoy your dad for every second you have him here on earth. Much respect 🫡

I wish I had a similar relationship with my dad that you have with yours! My dad was a WWII veteran, infantry Sargent, but a hard man. I am 75 and miss him. I just found your video and was hooked on a number of levels. I helped my daughter buy a bus conversion which she left on my land when she moved to another state with her husband. It needs work but I am not able to do it anymore. Loved starting with her, and maybe some day she can finish it with her son. Thanks for the memory connections.

John! this is the most awesome build! I can't wait to see more on this!

The bus is sick man. Always loved doing crazy road trips with my friends to get cars. Look forward to seeing the eventual bus build videos!

Love it! What a fabulously fantastic new project. So happy you both made it home safely! Keep up the good work and stoked you got to spend time together with your Dad. You can see him in all that you do and you are so lucky to have such a great teacher and father to support you whenever you need the big guns. 💪🏼😉 I’m sure he’s very proud of you too! ❤️

That’s the wildest addition to an already crazy fleet of vehicles. Very lucky to be able to share that with your dad too! Can’t wait as always to see what you do to this. 🤙🏼

I love your dad’s ingenuity and his problem solving skills on the side of the highway.I don’t think a lot of people this day and age have those skills.

Came right through backyard.....Scranton, PA. Love your attitude gentleman. My favorite was the old man saying adapt and overcome!!!! Looking forward to the build

ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS THING!!!!!! CONGRATTSSSSS!!!!!

This is Awesome that you found and bought this Vintage Bus 😎😎😎 I am looking forward to seeing you build this Bus into a Merch Store in the future!

Sunday June 30th at 2:48 pm sitting in front of my computer watching your latest video with anticipation and I had to stop half way thru to make a comment. WOW!! John, Holy S@*T I am so freakin excited for you. Congratulations!!! I also have goose bumps. Now back to the video.

This is incredible. I cannot wait to see what comes of this project. Your dad is an actual boss.

Awesome bus, awesome Dad. Mine would be the same - fully prepared with a well stocked 'if things go wrong toolbox' and not phased by a setback.

Absolutely can not wait to see this become a thing! Congrats on the new project. Love this stuff!

Wow so amazing to see a beautiful bus being saved cant wait to see the progress

What a thing of beauty. Such classy styling. It's gonna be amazing once you've done your thing. It's going to fit in so well with your fleet. Great adventure with your dad too. Even the Indiana roads are part of the story. Really enjoying your content John. It's consistently brilliant mate 👍

Amazing! I don't think I knew about this channel. But I was glued to watching this video through. Right now I only wish that it was a little older and that I could keep ditching all of today's projects and gone through a whole playlist 👍🤠👌

Wow, amazing video and incredible project. Hope to see it on the road some day.

I love love love this episode for so many reasons. Some of which are I get see you and your dad. The fact that you were able to fulfill a dream of yours and best of all you got to do it with your dad. Kris and I just spent time together building a deck while Amie and I were there for 8 weeks in New Hampshire and it was a very special and challenging time as well. I will be doing a video on the deck build as well. ❤ Can't wait to see how the bus is coming when we come back to NH next summer!

Congratulations. Know how you feel. This is how I felt when I purchased my first 1957 Nomad. Enjoying the channel. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome video. Bad ass bus. But your dad was my favorite part ! Being prepared for anything and thinking way ahead. Really reminded me of my dad. Thank you both for the great content.

Awesome and outstanding as always.Thanks for sharing and taking us along

Not sure if it ever got the patent it deserved, but we had an extinguisher spike in my volly department about 12 years ago. A few local companies had variations of it, and it saved a few lives! Learned about it in an extracation class when I was 17 or 18! If the patent never came to fruition, I owe your pops, at very least, a nice dinner on the town! Cheers guys!

Really awesome!!! Can't wait to see what you do with this!!

What a surprise! So happy for you! This will be fun to see all the work you do to it.

Love it. If anyone can handle a project like this, it's you.

Holy crap dude. I can only imagine that bus on the ground... I'm definitely not missing this build... great video

John such a wild trip that will last a lifetime! Get some rest and keep knocking out those awesome projects!

Epic trip/adventure with your dad! The previous owner was cool as hell too. What a cool find/story. 👍

You're Dad is cool! It's pretty obvious how much he loves and supports your endeavors! Eddie

John, first off dude you have the COOLEST dad ever!!!! Over the last 5.5 years now ive been one the channel he is just down for everything . Secondly, I am so stoked to see what comes of this!!! Very rad man, I hope to see a coffee pot in the merch bus with ice available haha!!

My man I see many people trying to start RU-vid but they just don’t have the it but you and your dad do. This is my 1st of many videos from you guys, keep up the good work.

Without a doubt the most awesome find out there! An amazing survivor having new life breathed back into it!

We are definitely kindred spirits dude. I’ve spotted a bus similar to that one here in my hometown in south Florida and I’ve been keeping my eye on it for a few years cuz I’d love to make a bagged rv out of it. Outstanding come up!

Man, what a fantastic video ❤ Best of luck bringing it back to life

Being a fire life safety tech, it bewilders me how your dad’s car fire extinguisher is not put into use. That thing is awesome

Having been on long road trips I can understand the anxiety of a flat tire but this bus is epic! Look forward to watching what you do to it.

Oh man! The stories of road side repairs and headaches we've had going through Indiana! Super kool find btw, that bus is killer

Your Dad is on air too! Love it!

That's such a beautiful bus. The build quality looks amazing

Hi,really great content. Truly enjoyed DAD and your journey. Yes what a legend DAD. DAD & SON what a inspiration. 💯%🙏 Love & Respect from Rocklands, Mitchells Plain, South Africa

I just subscribed Sunday, July 21. Wow that is a awesome looking bus. Can’t wait to see what you do with it. I will be following that is just super cool.👍👍

So cool! Cannot wait to see this build!

I grew up in Maine till I was 15. Hearing your Dad’s accent sound like home. I’ve completely lost any ounce of the accent I had, and even my Dad has lost most of his, it’s been 19 years since he lived in Maine.

Even the bus looks like a big Beetle with a rear engine. Very cool 🏆

Shout out to that Ram truck, what a beast!

I’ve followed you on FB/IG for awhile now… not sure why I wasn’t subscribed on RU-vid, but you’re gonna need every subscriber for this one so I’ve subscribed 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 let’s see what this looks like when you’re done ✅

Thats an adventure 😂 love the old bus its really awesome ❤✌️ thanks for the video! Watching from the Netherlands 👍

Just discovered your channel! Great video! So exciting!! Moved from NH last year. I miss it there so much! Best of luck with your project! You’ve got a new Sub! 😊

What a episode. And what a freaking cool bus . Can't wait to see more videos of it. Greetings from the Netherlands 💪🏻👌🏻

Very cool bus. That is going to be a major project.

An hour!! Get in! Cool project and time with pops. Nice!

@3.28 that pic of the shop, wrecker and nomad is just the coolest

What an adventure dude!! Awesome. Really looking forward to how this one progresses......

Can’t wait to see it cleaned up and running!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Wow ! What da Auto Union !!!! Really didn’t see that coming ….. yep. you’re the man for the job ! This is Alllllll you 👍

This is insane. Insanely great, that is. Congratulations.

Stoked you found a Flxible! I've only seen one other one IRL and that was about 30 years ago. Incredible find.

this is the coolest bus ive ever seen and i can only imagine how its gonna end up man this is just too awesome your beyond talented brother very inspirational

I’m always excited for a Ludwick build but this is gonna be so extra sick

Great time with Pops. PRICELESS. great looking bus

Wow the Silver Rhino. Haven't seen that since your dad was working the bugs out of it. Good times working for your dad. What an adventure. That bus is soooo cool and looks pretty solid. Can't wait to see progress on this.

Great video.What a find.I believe that bus has some aeronautical design in it.

So hyped! This is going to be nuts!

Dude this is fiyahhhhh 🔥❤️😱 this would be the sickest camper/RV/tiny home ❤ the possibilities are endless! THIS IS AUTOMOTIVE ART AT ITS FINEST!!! Thank you for sharing 😊 have a safe trip 🙏🏻

I hope you write this down for your kids to read later on! Wish I could have had more time with my father. Beautiful find, can't wait to see how it turns out.

I'm only half way through the video and I'm excited for you. Great Find!

What an amazing find. Congratulations

Enjoy it. Looking forward to seeing some content on this one

Jeez John, this is next level. Good luck and congrats! This is gonna be such an adventure!

What a Great bus cant wait to see it done