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05-28-2015, 04:45 PM
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#161
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NUNYA
Posts: 4,236
Year: 1995
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: 3800
Engine: DT408, AT545
Rated Cap: 23 500 gvw
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I got pulled over near Woodland, CA. This is the bus I was driving and I had a trailer behind it.
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05-28-2015, 04:55 PM
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#162
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 546
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05-28-2015, 08:01 PM
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#163
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NUNYA
Posts: 4,236
Year: 1995
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: 3800
Engine: DT408, AT545
Rated Cap: 23 500 gvw
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Looks nice. I don't know why you are worried about the yellow. You barely have any left.
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05-29-2015, 08:44 AM
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#164
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Posts: 1,793
Year: 1997
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: B3800 Short bus
Engine: T444E
Rated Cap: 36
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Bus is looking nice!! I need to turn my thoughts towards painting, too. You're lucky to have a steady hand and artistic vision! I have dreams of doing some sort of painted design, but the best my fingers can muster up are stick-men and lollipop trees.
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Originally Posted by crazycal
Looks nice. I don't know why you are worried about the yellow. You barely have any left.
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Yeh, I can't see having any complaints about that much yellow.. If you did get a ticket I would certainly bring it to court with pictures. The officer would have to be a real anal-retentive prick to stop you for it.
Anecdotally, I've been driving around with the full front cowl still in SBY for quite some time. No problems. Even before that I only had the lower half of the bus (what I could easily reach) spray painted. From below the windows and all the way up was still SBY, but the vehicle definitely did NOT look like a school bus with that hack-job spray job. I think that's the big point: it shouldn't look like a school bus.
Especially if you have a good friend who's house you are prone to parking out front of and happens to live next to a pre-school as I do.  One day while having a party there I gave everyone spray cans and let them go at the bus. One friend wrote, "Free candy" with an arrow pointing towards the door! With a couple drinks in the belly it was pretty damn funny... but I covered it up quickly the next day 
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05-31-2015, 08:54 AM
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#165
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: ...little north of Toronto Ontario
Posts: 606
Year: 2000
Coachwork: Thomsass
Chassis: FreightShaker
Engine: 5.9 Cummins 5 speed
Rated Cap: 2 ATV's and friends
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dond
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Sweet, some bling is always nice!
Stainless rims caps?
SBY doesn't seem to apply here, brother in law drove a shorty for his flower business until he sold it a few years later. Had to remove "SCHOOL BUS" wigwag off the front and the stop sign.
You going to mural the whole bus? ....looks great so far.
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05-31-2015, 08:58 AM
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#166
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: ...little north of Toronto Ontario
Posts: 606
Year: 2000
Coachwork: Thomsass
Chassis: FreightShaker
Engine: 5.9 Cummins 5 speed
Rated Cap: 2 ATV's and friends
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One day while having a party there I gave everyone spray cans and let them go at the bus. One friend wrote, "Free candy" with an arrow pointing towards the door! With a couple drinks in the belly it was pretty damn funny... but I covered it up quickly the next day [/QUOTE]
LMAO, That's something my buddies would have written, always seems funnier with a couple of pops in the system.
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05-31-2015, 09:30 AM
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#167
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 546
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"You going to mural the whole bus? ....looks great so far" Thank you, my bride is the artist and I have a feeling she's not going to stop on the pass. side!
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05-31-2015, 09:36 AM
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#168
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 46
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Looking forward to your report back from MV. Im going through that process now. Getting it ready for inspection. Did they need to see a shower too?
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05-31-2015, 09:38 AM
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#169
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 46
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Oops! Guess I'm not awake this morning. More coffee NOW!!!!
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05-31-2015, 10:08 AM
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#170
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 546
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No prob. Alan! BTDT...
But I might as well answer: The AZ MV folks were very accommodating and helpful. I had the shower pan just laying on the floor to show intent, a propane camp stove on an old dresser, a electric cord for power, the fridge was strapped to a wall and a Little Buddy heater was on the floor.
The MV guys were very interested in the project, more so than the "requirements" for title change.
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05-31-2015, 10:59 AM
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#171
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 46
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Hey thanks for the reply! I'm new to this bus and forum thing and saw your first post and got excited about your inspection I guess. I just want to get it passed and then convert it the way I want. Again, thank you.
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06-07-2015, 06:49 PM
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#172
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 546
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The mural is moving along!
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06-07-2015, 08:00 PM
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#173
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: ...little north of Toronto Ontario
Posts: 606
Year: 2000
Coachwork: Thomsass
Chassis: FreightShaker
Engine: 5.9 Cummins 5 speed
Rated Cap: 2 ATV's and friends
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Got a pic from further back, with the whole bus?....looks great.
What's the bolt pattern of a small bus? I've got a set of stainless rim/hub caps from a "HINO" straight truck that I'm not using.....any chance they're close?
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06-07-2015, 08:07 PM
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#174
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 546
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Thank you...Lots more to go!
Our bus has: 8 Hole on 275mm Bolt Circle, 221mm bore.
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06-07-2015, 08:26 PM
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#175
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: ...little north of Toronto Ontario
Posts: 606
Year: 2000
Coachwork: Thomsass
Chassis: FreightShaker
Engine: 5.9 Cummins 5 speed
Rated Cap: 2 ATV's and friends
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Thanks a lot.
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06-07-2015, 09:10 PM
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#176
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 8,462
Year: 1946
Coachwork: Chevrolet/Wayne
Chassis: 1- 1/2 ton
Engine: Cummins 4BT
Rated Cap: 15
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Sweeeeet! --- Great looking artwork.
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06-11-2015, 04:41 PM
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#177
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 546
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The open road!!
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06-11-2015, 09:06 PM
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#178
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Georgia
Posts: 164
Year: 1993
Coachwork: blue bird
Chassis: International, 3000, Blue Bird
Engine: Dt360
Rated Cap: 25000
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Hi
As others have said, I too will say that the paint job is great!!! It is so much fun to be creative. Never try to fit into a mold. 
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Looking for that happy place, I've got a home on wheels and I'm going to find it.
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06-11-2015, 09:23 PM
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#179
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Oklahoma aka "God's blind spot"
Posts: 2,446
Year: 1989
Coachwork: 1853FC International/Navistar
Chassis: 35' Retired Air Force Ambulance
Engine: DT466, MT643
Rated Cap: 6 souls and a driver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Better Tomorrows
Never try to fit into a mold. |
had a girlfriend with personalized plates YBNRML
It took me two years to get away from her!
dond, Beautiful artwork!
I'd screw up straight roll on paint by myself
anything beyond Paint By Numbers and I'm screwed
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06-11-2015, 09:50 PM
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#180
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 546
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Mary is the artist, I can barely draw flies!! 
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