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The Build Process

From auction lot to titled home.

Seven stages, posted on every project so you always know what stage your bus is in.

  1. 01

    Auction Lot

    We find a decommissioned transit bus at a regional surplus auction — usually a Gillig or New Flyer with a million-mile chassis and a body built to carry sixty people standing up.

  2. 02

    Teardown

    Seats, stanchions, fareboxes, flooring — out. We strip the bus to its bare steel ribs and pressure-wash twenty years of road off the bones.

  3. 03

    Insulate & Weatherproof

    Closed-cell spray foam in every cavity, a new welded subfloor, and every window reseated. This is the step that makes a bus a home instead of an oven.

  4. 04

    Systems

    Plumbing, 12V and shore electrical, roof solar where the AC unit used to bolt down, fresh and grey water tanks slung under the frame.

  5. 05

    Interior Build

    Cabinetry, galley, bed platform, wet bath. Reclaimed fir and steel, built to flex with the chassis instead of cracking on the road.

  6. 06

    Title & Inspection

    We title every build as a motorhome through Oregon DMV's RV conversion process. Inspection, paperwork, plates — it leaves the shop road-legal and recognized as a dwelling.

  7. 07

    Keys

    We rewire the destination roll sign one last time, hand you the keys, and the bus stops being a bus.

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