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Old 10-15-2024, 12:59 PM   #1
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1989 Prevost H5-60

NOT MINE!

Looks a lot like a Skoolie mansion waiting to be built...



https://eugene.craigslist.org/rvs/d/...786832034.html

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Old 10-15-2024, 03:24 PM   #2
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Location: Orange County, CA
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Year: 1990
Coachwork: Crown, integral. (With 2kW of tiltable solar)
Chassis: Crown Supercoach II (rear engine)
Engine: Detroit 6V92TAC, DDEC 2, Jake brake, Allison HT740
Rated Cap: 37,400 lbs GVWR
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NOT MINE!

Looks a lot like a Skoolie mansion waiting to be built...



https://eugene.craigslist.org/rvs/d/...786832034.html

A link from the ad that may outlive the ad...
"Rubber good but old" - if they're old they're not good, and it won't be cheap to replace all fourteen tires! For the weight of that juggernaut I wouldn't be putting on cheap Chinese tires either.

If the engine ever needs to be removed for any reason, some frame members will need to be cut, then rewelded after. Let's hope an Inframe can take care of whatever may be needed in the future: at over 300K miles it probably needs new bearings rolled in and maybe also a liner/piston kit. Even if I were paid $15,000 to take it, it would still be far too expensive!

Caveat Emptor.

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Old 10-15-2024, 04:08 PM   #3
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So it’d be a haunted mansion? Lots of nightmares?

Didn’t say it was a good idea. Just a bit of a rare bus.
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Old 10-16-2024, 02:33 AM   #4
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Year: 1992
Coachwork: Bluebird Mini-Bird 24'
Chassis: Chevy P30
Engine: Chevy 6.2L Diesel
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So it’d be a haunted mansion? Lots of nightmares?

Didn’t say it was a good idea. Just a bit of a rare bus.

"Rare" usually means expensive, more expensive, hard-to-find parts, and even more expensive.


It's excellent if you've got all the time and money in the world, and you're truly dedicated to a certain outcome or task... But personally, I prefer to stick to things that are tried and true, and things that are very, very common as much as possible.



And a rare prevost? No freaking thanks.
Maybe after I've got a couple of spare million in the bank.
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Old 10-23-2024, 04:54 PM   #5
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"Rare" usually means expensive, more expensive, hard-to-find parts, and even more expensive.


It's excellent if you've got all the time and money in the world, and you're truly dedicated to a certain outcome or task... But personally, I prefer to stick to things that are tried and true, and things that are very, very common as much as possible.



And a rare prevost? No freaking thanks.
Maybe after I've got a couple of spare million in the bank.
I'd bet that some of the parts would be made of unobtainium, either that or priced at your address times your phone number, ouch.
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Old 10-26-2024, 09:13 PM   #6
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Year: 1993
Chassis: ThomasBuilt 30'
Engine: need someone to tell me
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"Rubber good but old" - if they're old they're not good, and it won't be cheap to replace all fourteen tires! For the weight of that juggernaut I wouldn't be putting on cheap Chinese tires either.

If the engine ever needs to be removed for any reason, some frame members will need to be cut, then rewelded after. Let's hope an Inframe can take care of whatever may be needed in the future: at over 300K miles it probably needs new bearings rolled in and maybe also a liner/piston kit. Even if I were paid $15,000 to take it, it would still be far too expensive!

Caveat Emptor.

John
Las Vegas, NV had bunch of those running on the bigger city bus routes, like the Strip. Slow and the bus hinges like a trailer where the black top to bottom bellows looking strip is about 2/3s of the way back, makes it easier to turn. It is a pusher, if I remember right. Seems easy to drive at 30mph. Never rode one on the freeway. Like a powered trailer pushing the bus. At the hinge inside is roughly a 6-7 foot diameter circle in the floor with seats in either side and the bellows in the walls that the bus pivots around. Rode them many times when I lived in Vegas. The buses have more exit doors than that one (ahead of the hinge)
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