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10-15-2021, 05:08 PM
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#6321
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 578
Year: 2001
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: MVP ER
Engine: CAT 3126
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I figure I might as well share this here. This is a bus I have for sale. I've already written an essay for it in the ad and I really don't feel like retyping it in a new thread. Feel free to PM me for any further questions.
It just passed VA state inspection and a prepurchase inspection was done at a truck shop that I'm not affiliated with. New window assembly was quoted as $170 by my local Thomas dealer.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...95074547273522
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10-15-2021, 08:40 PM
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#6322
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Dawsonville, Ga.
Posts: 10,482
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Genesis
Chassis: International
Engine: DT466/3060
Rated Cap: 77
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Truthseeker4449
I figure I might as well share this here. This is a bus I have for sale. I've already written an essay for it in the ad and I really don't feel like retyping it in a new thread. Feel free to PM me for any further questions.
It just passed VA state inspection and a prepurchase inspection was done at a truck shop that I'm not affiliated with. New window assembly was quoted as $170 by my local Thomas dealer.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...95074547273522
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Curious what gear you have in that bus. At 2400 in 5th on mine, I'm doing 85mph.
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10-15-2021, 09:34 PM
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#6323
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 578
Year: 2001
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: MVP ER
Engine: CAT 3126
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Quote:
Originally Posted by o1marc
Curious what gear you have in that bus. At 2400 in 5th on mine, I'm doing 85mph.
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6.14 per the sticker on the diff. 2,400 RPM in 6th is 70 mph for this bus. The county has rather hilly terrain and Virginia buses at the time this one was built were limited to 55 mph by state law, so the high ratio makes sense to me. I know there's ones that were in the fleet that were even worse than this one.
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10-23-2021, 03:33 PM
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#6324
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: California, Bay Area
Posts: 896
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Couple of medium-sized FE's for sale on Govdeals or PublicSurplus right now. I dont have the links handy.
One was a 9 windows TC1000 high roof I believe, the other was a 9 window 29ft TC2000. Its a nice size, and I know people are looking for these, I'm hoping a couple people who actually want them will get fair deals on these, its a shame to see people sucking these up only to try to flip them for 20-25k+ with little or no value added.
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10-27-2021, 11:49 AM
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#6325
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Dec 2020
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Posts: 261
Year: 1995
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: International 3800
Engine: DT466 / MD3060
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1977 Crown on GovDeals - California. what a beauty! Engine sounds good in the video, but I know absolutely nothing.
What do you guys think?
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10-27-2021, 11:57 AM
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#6326
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Jun 2020
Location: Long Beach, CA
Posts: 1,075
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: TC2000, 40' MPV
Engine: 5.9 Cummins/B300 trans
Rated Cap: U/K
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Be careful. A to Z bus sales is auctioning it off for a reason. I like it, manual transmission. It may need an engine from their evasive description
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10-27-2021, 12:01 PM
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#6327
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Mar 2021
Location: MA
Posts: 354
Year: 2008
Coachwork: IH
Chassis: IC SB CE-300 39ft
Engine: DT466 w/Allison 2500
Rated Cap: 29500
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bear Gerschafer
1977 Crown on GovDeals - California. what a beauty! Engine sounds good in the video, but I know absolutely nothing.
What do you guys think?
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Golden Rule #1: If it sounds too good to be true, it is.
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10-27-2021, 01:01 PM
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#6328
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Dec 2020
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Posts: 261
Year: 1995
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: International 3800
Engine: DT466 / MD3060
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I was thinking the same thing actually "if it sounds too good to be true it probably is"
Thanks for the quick replies on this - not looking myself but hopefully helps someone!
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10-27-2021, 01:58 PM
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#6329
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Jun 2020
Location: Long Beach, CA
Posts: 1,075
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: TC2000, 40' MPV
Engine: 5.9 Cummins/B300 trans
Rated Cap: U/K
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On the surface it sounds like a great bus but....it might take some really deep pockets to get/keep it running.
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10-27-2021, 04:22 PM
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#6330
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 1,259
Year: 2001
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American
Engine: 8.3 Cummins ISC
Rated Cap: 75
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Yeah A to Z is a bus seller themselves - if that bus had any worth in it they would've had it on their lot, not trying to unload it on Gov Deals.
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11-03-2021, 05:57 PM
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#6332
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Mar 2021
Location: MA
Posts: 354
Year: 2008
Coachwork: IH
Chassis: IC SB CE-300 39ft
Engine: DT466 w/Allison 2500
Rated Cap: 29500
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dzl_
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I bet some fool and his/her money will be violently separated.
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11-03-2021, 07:16 PM
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#6333
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Jun 2020
Location: Long Beach, CA
Posts: 1,075
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: TC2000, 40' MPV
Engine: 5.9 Cummins/B300 trans
Rated Cap: U/K
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You could buy a nice class A for less than that
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11-03-2021, 08:39 PM
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#6334
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dzl_
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No that's quite a severely bloated price even today.
Love the typical sideways bed that's basically unusable for more than one shortish person lol.
That's converted Sprinter money.
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11-03-2021, 09:15 PM
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#6335
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: California, Bay Area
Posts: 896
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EastCoastCB
No that's quite a severely bloated price even today.
Love the typical sideways bed that's basically unusable for more than one shortish person lol.
That's converted Sprinter money.
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I dont think so, not if you look at converted buses, I'm not saying I like where the market is, but for a bespoke complete build, 65k is not too out of the ordinary (at least for an asking price). I would consider it to be less obscene than what people (including people on this forum) are trying to charge for their totally unconverted bone stock skoolies (like the few listed here for 25k lately). I think the market is crazy right now. To be clear I dont think its a good price, just not a substantially worse price than what a lot of the other fully converted buses are going for.
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11-03-2021, 09:21 PM
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#6336
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: California, Bay Area
Posts: 896
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EastCoastCB
That's converted Sprinter money.
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As an aside, sprinter conversion prices have gone crazy also. Came across two the other day in the 170-200k range, well done, very nice, but not exceptionally beyond the quality of hundreds of other builds. IDK where all these people with hundreds of thousands of dollars of disposable income that they must spend right now are coming from, but I'm ready for them to figure out that they liked the instagram version of vanlife/skoolie life better than reality and start selling their expensive toys so the market can return to semi-normalcy.
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11-04-2021, 05:27 AM
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#6338
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dzl_
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That bus is a much better buy than the van.
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11-04-2021, 10:19 AM
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#6339
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Mar 2021
Location: MA
Posts: 354
Year: 2008
Coachwork: IH
Chassis: IC SB CE-300 39ft
Engine: DT466 w/Allison 2500
Rated Cap: 29500
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rwnielsen
You could buy a nice class A for less than that
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Better yet, with $65k you could buy (or pick it up for free) an abandoned house or apartment in a beautiful village in Italy, remodel it to your taste, buy a European RV with money left over to tour Europe, then when you get tired of that, you sell the RV and still have a nice home in Italy where you can retire, all yours with no mortgage.
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11-09-2021, 05:01 PM
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#6340
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2014
Location: West Ohio
Posts: 3,719
Year: 1984
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: International 1753
Engine: 6.9 International
Rated Cap: 65
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04 IH 3800 t444e $2000
Not mine, saw on marketplace, follow the link. Seemed pretty reasonable considering the times.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/687467045564220/
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