Woman bought double decker bus for $24,000 off eBay and now lives in it full time

Most people browse eBay for homewares or vintage clothes.

Lindzi went looking for a double decker bus.

And when she found an old Metropolitan Police vehicle – a two-storey mobile HQ that once rolled around London – she couldn’t help but buy it.

$24,000 later, she calls this quirky auction find home.

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How a $24,000 eBay double decker bus became her new life

The bus wasn’t a random impulse.

Lindzi had been obsessed with double deckers since she was a kid and wasn’t allowed upstairs.

In her 20s she even looked into buying one to turn into a café, but adulthood got in the way.

Years later, after a rough breakup and feeling stuck, the idea came back – and this time she actually followed through.

Her brother announced he was selling the house they shared, and instead of freaking out, she saw an opportunity.

She realised the sale gave her a chance to buy a bus outright and skip rent altogether.

So she started hunting properly and found the one in Glasgow: just over £18,000 (about $24,000), barely used, clean inside from its police days, and – crucially – fitted with the middle doors she wanted for a community space.

She took a mechanic friend to check it; it passed the test, and they drove it home.

Lindzi got her HGV licence soon after and spent 2024 turning the empty shell into a place she could actually live.

She and her mum handled most of the build themselves, ripping things out, building things in, and learning everything on the fly.

Once it was finished, she settled into living upstairs, which she’d built out as a tiny home, while downstairs became a travelling library filled with donated books anyone could grab when she parked up.

The messy, unglamorous reality of bus living

Whilst Lindzi is now living her dream, it hasn’t all been aesthetic and perfect – there’s been chaos too. 

Campsites kept rejecting her because the bus was too big, so she spent her first month hopping between random lay-bys. 

That’s where she learned very quickly how hard it is to squeeze a double decker through a tight country lane… and how badly a rock can smash a window when it hits at speed.

Winter made everything trickier.

The log burner downstairs keeps things warm, but the upper deck turns into a fridge, so she sometimes sleeps downstairs just to avoid freezing. 

And even simple things need planning. 

Once the bus is parked, you can’t exactly zip down to the shop for snacks.

Then the internet piled on. 

An early video went viral and strangers told her she was stupid for even trying this. 

Back then, she wasn’t confident yet, so it stung. 

But every problem she solved – reversing into tight spots, fixing things she’d never fixed before, arranging repairs on the fly – made her realise she could actually do this.

Now she knows exactly what she signed up for, and she still loves it. 

The double decker bus is her home, her job, her little rebellion against the life she didn’t want – all built from a $24,000 eBay listing that turned out to be the start of something completely different.

You can follow along as Lindzi continues to adjust to bus like over on the Resto Revival ~ Car Stories YouTube channel.

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