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10-14-2018, 09:24 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Columbus Ohio
Posts: 18,834
Year: 1991
Coachwork: Carpenter
Chassis: International 3800
Engine: DTA360 / MT643
Rated Cap: 7 Row Handicap
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Cyfair around houston is known to be really good about mechanical maint on their busses, and most of them are A/C (if thats important).. they dont sell very often but seems when they do alot of nice units with lots of life left in them.
www.onlinepros.com. usually is where CyFair and other texas districts sell in addition to the usual govdeals and publicsurplus
-Christopher
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10-15-2018, 02:22 PM
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#4242
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: PNW
Posts: 15
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1934 Chevy
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10-15-2018, 05:20 PM
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New Member
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Maine
Posts: 4
Year: 1957
Coachwork: Wayne
Chassis: Ford B600
Engine: 391 Ford Industrial motor out of a Brinks truck
Rated Cap: 32 passenger
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There's a fantastic list of government auction buses and related vehicles at https://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?f...=&category=94H
You can sort the list by price. Looks like some are going for just a few hundred dollars, likely mostly the non-running ones. But sometimes they have only trivial problems, I have bought two vehicles at police auctions that ran very well after only the most minor repairs like putting in a new battery.
If I was going to get a second bus it would be one of the shorty diesel ones and I'd convert it to run on any oil.
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Love watching sunsets
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10-16-2018, 09:16 PM
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#4244
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Skoolie
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Riverside, CA
Posts: 171
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1983 International Short School Bus
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BlueFish aka Todd
Seeking a Crown, Thomas, International, Blue Bird bus with DT466, Cummins 8.3, Allison trans, high roof, air brakes, and A/C.
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10-16-2018, 09:42 PM
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#4245
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Skoolie
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Riverside, CA
Posts: 171
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*dopest bus ever*must see* 96 bb
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BlueFish aka Todd
Seeking a Crown, Thomas, International, Blue Bird bus with DT466, Cummins 8.3, Allison trans, high roof, air brakes, and A/C.
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10-17-2018, 11:10 AM
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#4246
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Feb 2017
Posts: 13
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2003 flat nose thomas school bus air brakes 54 passenger diesel
I purchased this bus last year [around March 2017]. My husband and I wanted to make a conversion into a schoolie and watched tons of how to videos. Alas, I lost my husband on February this year so no schoolie for me.
I posted it on ebay today 10/17/2018 hopefully someone from this site gets it. If you need more info please feel free to contact me.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/253938096809
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10-18-2018, 02:29 PM
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#4248
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New Member
Join Date: Oct 2018
Posts: 5
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hotpuppy
Out of curiosity...... what was the fuel tank capacity?
I noticed this one has the curved windshields..... I would expect those to be more expensive to replace than the flat ones. One of the achilles heels I have experienced on old coaches is that the glass is either very expensive or unobtanium.
I had a 69 GM New Look Fishbowl with an Origami Windshield. I learned that there were two kinds of rare in the world. Windshields for my bus and undiscovered Picasso paintings. Both were equally valuable. 
I love my current coach for so many things..... the glass is not one of those things. I has the largest windshield I've ever seen on a vehicle. Fortunately it's not as rare as Picasso art. Unfortunately NeOPLAN left the USA and I did not realize that until I had bought the bus and got it home. Such is life. Windshields are $5K plus install and have a 6 week lead time from Europe. Side glass is $2k plus install and also has a 6 week lead time from Europe.
Those are just best guestimates.
I encourage folks to research maintenance costs before buying.
One of the major advantages for skoolies is that parts are reasonably easy to get and tires are very standard. Tire prices double for coaches. It's either unusual, uncommon, foreign, or custom on coaches by the time they hit the RV universe.  |
I'm researching busses and I hadn't thought of that! The windows are what draws me to a coach, but ouch!
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10-18-2018, 03:15 PM
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#4249
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Columbus Ohio
Posts: 18,834
Year: 1991
Coachwork: Carpenter
Chassis: International 3800
Engine: DTA360 / MT643
Rated Cap: 7 Row Handicap
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Even older Skoolies can have tough parts to come by.. ie glass for 1960s superiors is tough.. suspension and steering parts for older coaches where it was more custom than standard at the time..
I know quite a few people that restore convert or restomod coaches from the 50s /60s etc and have sometimes had to have parts custom made for 1000s for a single part.
Transmissions on many city transit busses while obtainable are huge bux.. ie ZF or Voith can run you 10-15k plus if you lose a trans..
Christopher
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10-18-2018, 03:17 PM
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#4250
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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 BlueFish
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Title says he asking $6500, in the details he says he's asking $8K/obo 
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10-18-2018, 06:54 PM
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#4252
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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 AnaSkooly
I purchased this bus last year [around March 2017]. My husband and I wanted to make a conversion into a schoolie and watched tons of how to videos. Alas, I lost my husband on February this year so no schoolie for me.
I posted it on ebay today 10/17/2018 hopefully someone from this site gets it. If you need more info please feel free to contact me.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/253938096809 |
So sorry to hear about your loss.
Hope the auction does well for you!
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10-18-2018, 06:59 PM
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#4253
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2018
Posts: 61
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AnaSkooly
I purchased this bus last year [around March 2017]. My husband and I wanted to make a conversion into a schoolie and watched tons of how to videos. Alas, I lost my husband on February this year so no schoolie for me.
I posted it on ebay today 10/17/2018 hopefully someone from this site gets it. If you need more info please feel free to contact me.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/253938096809 |
So sorry things did not work out as you guys had hoped they would =(
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10-20-2018, 10:25 PM
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#4254
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Skoolie
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Riverside, CA
Posts: 171
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1989 Bluebird Converted Skoolie
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BlueFish aka Todd
Seeking a Crown, Thomas, International, Blue Bird bus with DT466, Cummins 8.3, Allison trans, high roof, air brakes, and A/C.
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10-22-2018, 12:59 PM
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#4255
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: May 2018
Posts: 15
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That’s an 8.3 front end but has rear end hatch...is radiator back there?
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10-23-2018, 06:54 AM
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#4257
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Columbus Ohio
Posts: 18,834
Year: 1991
Coachwork: Carpenter
Chassis: International 3800
Engine: DTA360 / MT643
Rated Cap: 7 Row Handicap
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Setsu-P
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wow even rust on the dashboard.. that thing has had a lot of moisture to say the least.. almost looks like the driver window got left open.. I wouldnt want to see what the floor under the driver looks like.
-Christopher
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10-24-2018, 10:27 PM
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#4258
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Skoolie
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 130
Chassis: GMC 3500 Thomas
Engine: 6.0 L GAS
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nice thread !......It would be nice to collate a directory of dealers ?....or is there one ?....I can't find anything in Ontario Canada but I like these 6 window ones out west :
https://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details...equestSource=b
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10-26-2018, 04:01 PM
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#4259
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Skoolie
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Riverside, CA
Posts: 171
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Quote:
Originally Posted by skidfrog
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It would be great if these were put into a list. 
http://www.skoolie.net/forums/f9/whe...bus-24383.html
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BlueFish aka Todd
Seeking a Crown, Thomas, International, Blue Bird bus with DT466, Cummins 8.3, Allison trans, high roof, air brakes, and A/C.
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10-27-2018, 08:30 PM
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New Member
Join Date: Sep 2018
Posts: 1
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