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Find of the Day: 1967 VW Back to the Future Bus!

Cortland Finnegan may be widely known as a cornerback for the Carolina Panthers and one of the NFL’s biggest jerks, but that doesn’t prevent him from coming up with hilarious projects, like this 1967 Microbus that was inspired by Back to the Future.

The build was done by BLVD Customs in Nashville, Tennessee, and they only went and gave it gull-wing doors! Look, gull-wing doors are a pretty divisive issue. A lot of people just love doors that open in direction other than out. Others hate anything but a traditional door for being too showy and heavy, but I think we can all agree that in this case, as an homage to the DeLorean from the movie, that it’s appropriate and wonderful.

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When you aren’t impressing passers by with your avian doors, you can enter through the traditional barn doors along the side.

Inside, the upholstery has been color-matched to the Back to the Future logo. Admittedly, it does look a little like the inside of a fast-food joint that hasn’t been updated since the ‘70s, but it’s very appropriate given the theme of the build.

Of course, the bus features a flux capacitor so that you can travel forward and backward in time to have have Grandfather-paradox based adventures. Or you can take your best gal to the lookout point and make time stand still in the pull out bed at the back and look at stars from under the rag top.

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Before you complain about Finnegan chopping up a many-windowed barn door Bus, this project started as just a bare shell. Okay, you may now resume complaining.

No word on whether or not the hover-drive works, so as it stands you still need roads where you’re going and a pretty big wad of cash. Finnegan’s bus is for sale at Music City Motors in Nashville and you can see the posting at duPont Registry where they’re asking for $150,000. But as Doc Brown once said, if you’re going to buy a time machine, it might as well be a Microbus.

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