Full-sized custom Texas Longhorn converted school bus with beer taps hits the market

This specialty University of Texas Longhorn fan bus is for sale for $10,000. It includes indoor and outdoor beer taps, sleeping space for 5, a toilet, ceiling mounted air conditioning and wiring for an interior TV and sound system. less This specialty University of Texas Longhorn fan bus is for sale for $10,000. It includes indoor and outdoor beer taps, sleeping space for 5, a toilet, ceiling mounted air conditioning and wiring for an interior ... more Photo: Andrew Stocker Photo: Andrew Stocker Image 1 of / 23 Caption Close Full-sized custom Texas Longhorn converted school bus with beer taps hits the market 1 / 23 Back to Gallery

For a mega Longhorn Football fan, the perfect tailgate machine just hit the market. It's a 32-foot long orange and white custom 1982 school bus converted to a University of Texas party pad, for sale for $10,000.

It has indoor and outdoor beer taps, two ceiling-mounted air conditioning units, a gas generator, wiring for two TVs and a six-speaker surround sound system, a rooftop deck, a toilet and wood flooring salvaged from an East Texas elementary school gymnasium.

For the last year, Andrew Stocker, a 40-year-old insurance salesman in Dallas, carted kids and friends across Texas following UT football. But he's moving to New York, and the bus can't follow.

It was a project of Stocker and two friends—collectively three Dallas area businessmen who graduated the University of Texas at Austin in 1997. When Stocker found a Craigslist ad for a full size school bus with all the seats already stripped, sitting in a field in Stephenville, Texas and for sale for $5,000, he knew his yearlong search was done.

He bought it, and brought it home. He and his buddies, Salil Gaitonde and Gabe Davidov, had no experience converting school busses, but through weekend and evening gatherings, they managed to figure something out. Most ideas for the layout came from another man's bus conversion blog—HankBoughtABus.com. And when things got technical, they asked for expert help.

"That was the first time any of us had ever done something like that," Stocker said.

Employees at a Sherwin-Williams auto-body paint distributor walked him through the entire process of painting the bus to professional standards, he said. Someone with the Cummins customer service team in Dallas spent more than an hour on the phone helping him install his Cummins generator at no cost. And two friends from the Anheuser-Busch plant in Oklahoma provided all parts and labor to install the indoor and outdoor beer taps, with the stipulation that only Anheuser-Busch beers would be served.

The work took about 2.5 months, and by September 2014 the trio, which between themselves have six kids, were ready to hit the tailgates. They saw UT play UCLA at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, then spent the season carting families around the state for games and weekends in stadium parking lots.

"You've got to have a lot of time on your hands and you've got to have a patient wife," Stocker said.

But the bus can't follow Stocker to New York, where his job will take him soon. The bus is in Dallas, and Stocker will deliver within 100 miles.