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11-03-2016, 10:48 AM
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#801
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Essex, MD
Posts: 3,738
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: Blue Bird TC RE 3904, Flat Nose, 40', 277" wh base
Engine: 8.3L Cummins ISC 260hp, MT643, 4.44 rear
Rated Cap: 84 pax or 1 RV; 33,000lbs
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainHooligan
Do you need a portable shop for ... adultery? Buy a bus.
Are you running from the law? BUS
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Mobile brothel... hmmm. 
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11-03-2016, 10:57 AM
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#802
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Essex, MD
Posts: 3,738
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: Blue Bird TC RE 3904, Flat Nose, 40', 277" wh base
Engine: 8.3L Cummins ISC 260hp, MT643, 4.44 rear
Rated Cap: 84 pax or 1 RV; 33,000lbs
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cadillackid
I love the interior on this one!! really has the look and feel of a kuxury rail car!!!
-Christopher
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I love the exterior "roof" windows. I guess I like the lines of the older buses too.
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11-03-2016, 11:29 AM
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#803
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Skoolie
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: South Western PA
Posts: 164
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next saturday auction of buses - 127 listed on the site as of today.
Plus they have an online auction with buses around the country.
Some very very low prices ($150! running/driving full size bus).
Inventory | Bus Auction | 422 Sales
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11-05-2016, 01:15 PM
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#804
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Columbus Ohio
Posts: 18,848
Year: 1991
Coachwork: Carpenter
Chassis: International 3800
Engine: DTA360 / MT643
Rated Cap: 7 Row Handicap
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this came across my email.. from the same auctioneers that auctioned off my bus.. they are in texas.. seems like a lot of High mileage busses but maybe the prices will go right,
https://www.onlinepros.com/servlet/S...1&perPage=9999
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11-08-2016, 11:05 PM
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#805
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: near Christiansburg VA
Posts: 692
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freightliner
Engine: Cummins 5.9
Rated Cap: 44 or 66? 11 rows
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Salem, OR 2002 RE with 8.3 Cummins
https://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?f...17&acctid=5859
(closes 11/10/16; current bid $750)
Looks like he backed under a low bridge/roof and tore up the roof a bit. Might be of interest...
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11-09-2016, 02:46 PM
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#806
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Posts: 855
Year: 2002
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cummins 8.3/Allison MD3060
Rated Cap: 84
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11-09-2016, 03:23 PM
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#807
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Posts: 855
Year: 2002
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cummins 8.3/Allison MD3060
Rated Cap: 84
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Or an old Crown Supercoach with an old conversion job?
With the engine and transmission in this thing, that might be a really good buy for $5,000.
1954 Crown Bus Conversion
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11-09-2016, 03:27 PM
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#808
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Eastern WA
Posts: 6,401
Year: 2002
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American RE (A3RE)
Engine: Cummins ISC (8.3)
Rated Cap: 72
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rameses
Or an old Crown Supercoach with an old conversion job?
With the engine and transmission in this thing, that might be a really good buy for $5,000.
1954 Crown Bus Conversion |
Anyone have a clue what it would take to add power steering to this beast?
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11-09-2016, 03:44 PM
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#809
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Eastern WA
Posts: 6,401
Year: 2002
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American RE (A3RE)
Engine: Cummins ISC (8.3)
Rated Cap: 72
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dapplecreek
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I was looking at that one. It is about 4 hours from me. If I had a good clue as to how difficult the repair may be I might get excited about this one.
Anyone have ideas on how involved the process would be? I have never taken on bus body repair.
It looks to me like drilling the rivets out of the rear cap and first roof section. Cut out the damaged framing. Replace frame members, replace roof metal and replace rear cap. I know that I saw a place listed somewhere that sells bus body parts.
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11-09-2016, 03:54 PM
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#810
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Pensacola and Crystal River, FL
Posts: 647
Year: 1998
Coachwork: AmTran International
Chassis: 3800
Engine: Navistar 7.6L
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PNW_Steve
I was looking at that one. It is about 4 hours from me. If I had a good clue as to how difficult the repair may be I might get excited about this one.
Anyone have ideas on how involved the process would be? I have never taken on bus body repair.
It looks to me like drilling the rivets out of the rear cap and first roof section. Cut out the damaged framing. Replace frame members, replace roof metal and replace rear cap. I know that I saw a place listed somewhere that sells bus body parts.
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I would be tempted to bore a strategic hole through the deepest dent and fish a chain/cable/snatch strap thru with a crossbar inside.
Then anchor the other end to a great big tree and give it some gas in forward gear, ha.
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11-09-2016, 04:34 PM
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#811
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Eastern WA
Posts: 6,401
Year: 2002
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American RE (A3RE)
Engine: Cummins ISC (8.3)
Rated Cap: 72
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DoubleO7
I would be tempted to bore a strategic hole through the deepest dent and fish a chain/cable/snatch strap thru with a crossbar inside.
Then anchor the other end to a great big tree and give it some gas in forward gear, ha.
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Why didn't I think of that! 
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11-09-2016, 04:48 PM
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#812
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Kansas
Posts: 492
Year: 2000
Chassis: International 3800
Engine: T444E
Rated Cap: Your mom +1
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rameses
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Be careful with that seller. Used to live in the area and heard some... "Interesting" stories about that place...
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11-09-2016, 06:19 PM
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#813
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Posts: 855
Year: 2002
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: All American
Engine: Cummins 8.3/Allison MD3060
Rated Cap: 84
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Quote:
Originally Posted by slaughridge85
Be careful with that seller. Used to live in the area and heard some... "Interesting" stories about that place...
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You can't leave us hanging like that!
Let's hear some tales!
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11-09-2016, 08:39 PM
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#814
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: near Christiansburg VA
Posts: 692
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freightliner
Engine: Cummins 5.9
Rated Cap: 44 or 66? 11 rows
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DoubleO7
I would be tempted to bore a strategic hole through the deepest dent and fish a chain/cable/snatch strap thru with a crossbar inside.
Then anchor the other end to a great big tree and give it some gas in forward gear, ha.
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While driving a small pickup truck I was rear-ended and pushed into another car. It bent the bumper in and the next day I wanted to straighten it. I put a chain around the bumper and around a convenient telephone pole in our pasture. I put the truck in reverse and hit the gas. The truck lurched back then went " BAM- wooooooonk".
I thought to myself, "I was expecting the ' BAM' but not the ' wooooooonk'..." - climbing out of the truck I saw that instead of bending the bumper neatly out to its original shape I now had a 1.5' outie akin to a train's cow catcher... I kinda overdid it...
Learn from my scars.
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11-10-2016, 08:39 AM
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#815
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: KANSAS CITY
Posts: 751
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DoubleO7
I would be tempted to bore a strategic hole through the deepest dent and fish a chain/cable/snatch strap thru with a crossbar inside.
Then anchor the other end to a great big tree and give it some gas in forward gear, ha.
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Use a forklift or skid loader or tractor with bucket . Skidloader would be best so you can wiggle a bit of necessary. Would be better to have loader on a dock and buss backed up to it. Go very slowly.
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Former owner of a 1969 F600 Skoolie.
1998 Ford B700 Thomas body 65 passenger. 5.9 Cummins 12 valve with MT643 Transmission 123,000 miles.
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11-10-2016, 08:45 AM
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#816
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Pensacola and Crystal River, FL
Posts: 647
Year: 1998
Coachwork: AmTran International
Chassis: 3800
Engine: Navistar 7.6L
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PNW_Steve
Why didn't I think of that!
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most excellent response to my idea!
LOL
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11-10-2016, 08:54 AM
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#817
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Pensacola and Crystal River, FL
Posts: 647
Year: 1998
Coachwork: AmTran International
Chassis: 3800
Engine: Navistar 7.6L
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This online only auction is ending November 29th here in my home county.
Twenty eight busses, all but one are Thomas Built busses with 7.2 or 10.3 CAT power.
The newer busses in the school fleet are Internationals.
So I do not know if they moved away from Thomas due to reliabilty, cost or kickbacks.
https://www.proxibid.com/asp/Catalog.asp?aid=119226
Of the auctions this company runs, final bids are usually way low on general school surplus stuff.
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11-10-2016, 11:24 PM
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#819
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Music City USA
Posts: 737
Year: 2005
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freightliner
Engine: Detroit MBE906
Rated Cap: 72
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Quote:
Originally Posted by prof.fate
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I got Jasmine from there (Whitestown IN location)... paid a bit more than I would have liked but she's a 2005 model and pretty solid.
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11-11-2016, 07:32 AM
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#820
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Skoolie
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: South Western PA
Posts: 164
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It was on the news today that Pittsburgh's transit authority is buying new buses (25) replacing those 12 years old with 500k miles (or more).
Yowsa..100-150k a school bus seems like nothing by comparison!
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