Willie Nelson Band's tour bus for sale on Craigslist

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SAN ANTONIO — Craigslist is useful for a slew of reasons: trade a La-Z-Boy for a shotgun, find a roommate or lessee and now, buy a tour bus used by the Willie Nelson Band in the 1980s.

That's right, one of four tour buses used by the legendary Texan and his band decades ago is up for grabs on the classified advertisements website, and it's a beauty.

The highest bid as of Friday morning is $36,000 from a private buyer out of Dallas, said Alen Vidovic, who is selling the restored 1983 Eagle Bus designed by Florida Coach for Paul English, the drummer and tour manager for the Willie Nelson Band, according to a plaque inside the bus.

Vidovic said he's received about 70 inquiries via text, email and phone in 5 days of posting the ad and is closing bidding this weekend.

The bus doesn't reek of pot, Vidovic said, as you might expect.

“I'm sure it did back in his day, but it has been cleaned out multiple times,” he said.

One might wonder if the original stench would increase the value of the bus.

With sleeping room for eight, four air conditioners, a generator and a sweet paint job, $36,000 sounds like a pretty good deal.

Gas, though, might stretch the buyer at 7 miles per gallon.

English, who was born in Fort Worth, has been Nelson's drummer, tour manager and best friend since the mid-1950s, according to The Dallas Morning News.

Johnny Temples, who worked for Florida Coach and drove those buses during the '80s, explained to the Morning News that: “The Scout, as it was called, was one of four buses on that tour, along with Willie's iconic Honeysuckle Rose, the crew members' Warrior and the band's Red-Headed Stranger.”

Eventually, the bus was rechristened Me & Paul, so named for the 1985 record of the same name, according to the Morning News.

“Willie rode that bus when he played dominoes,” Temples told the Morning News. “But that was not his personal bus.”

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