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06-10-2017, 07:54 PM
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#2421
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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I'm finding a lot of completed skoolies and even coaches for sale.
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06-11-2017, 02:12 PM
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#2422
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Posts: 1,001
Year: 2000
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: International
Engine: TE 444
Rated Cap: 12
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06-11-2017, 02:57 PM
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#2423
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Clearlake, Northern California
Posts: 2,531
Year: 1992
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: TC-2000 Frt Eng, Tranny:MT643
Engine: 5,9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 84
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robin97396
Listening to recent conversations I thought some of you back there might be interested in a used RTO.
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I am, but not 3,000 miles away.
As for the reversed shift pattern on that Gillig.... To my mind, there is no excuse for this. A linkage can perfectly well be built to shift normally.
I suppose they figure that a school bus will be driven by a housewife, who has never shifted any other manual transmission, and they can save three dollars with the simpler linkage.
Me... I would probably never make it to top gear -- having lived-and-breathed 10, 9, and 13 speeds for 27 years.
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06-12-2017, 04:56 PM
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#2424
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: SW New Hampshire
Posts: 1,334
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Originally Posted by Kubla
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Serious roof raise there!
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06-12-2017, 07:12 PM
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#2425
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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At $42,500, the bus exporters don't look so bad anymore.
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06-12-2017, 08:42 PM
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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 Robin97396
At $42,500, the bus exporters don't look so bad anymore.
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They've been trying to sell that thing for almost a year now, and still haven't dropped their price any.
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06-12-2017, 09:04 PM
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#2427
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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I was always told the price is never wrong. It's just the wrong year. In another 30 or 50 years that bus will probably be worth $42,500.
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06-12-2017, 09:14 PM
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#2428
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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 Robin97396
I was always told the price is never wrong. It's just the wrong year. In another 30 or 50 years that bus will probably be worth $42,500.
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Yeah, but only because of inflation. That thing'll never be a collectors item. Haha
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06-12-2017, 09:48 PM
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#2429
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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In another 50 years, and as an antique, someone like Tango or Jack will come along and fix that bus from top to bottom.
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06-12-2017, 09:49 PM
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#2430
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 1,497
Year: 2002
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: Bluebird
Engine: 5.9 Cummins 24v
Rated Cap: 72 pax
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robin97396
In another 50 years, and as an antique, someone like Tango or Jack will come along and fix that bus from top to bottom.
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The only problem is that bus isn't built to last another 50 yrs lol
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06-12-2017, 09:52 PM
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#2431
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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Neither is my car.
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06-12-2017, 09:57 PM
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#2432
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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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Your Power Wagon is though!
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06-13-2017, 12:46 AM
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#2433
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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I'll admit, the Power Wagon is holding up quite well. That is one heavy piece of metal.
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Nobody's Business
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06-13-2017, 06:43 AM
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#2434
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,829
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robin97396
Neither is my car.
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No car made in the last several decades is.
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06-13-2017, 06:56 AM
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#2435
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Columbus Ohio
Posts: 19,833
Year: 1991
Coachwork: Carpenter
Chassis: International 3800
Engine: DTA360 / MT643
Rated Cap: 7 Row Handicap
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rameses
Your Power Wagon is though!
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they are building a massive "power-wagon" at the trans shop where I got trans.. I never realized how big a *REAL* power wagon is.. (not the 80s Dodge blazer lookalike)..
it has something like 44" tires or something on it.. they were saying each tire / wheel weighs like 300+ lbs..
-Christopher
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06-13-2017, 06:57 AM
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#2436
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Columbus Ohio
Posts: 19,833
Year: 1991
Coachwork: Carpenter
Chassis: International 3800
Engine: DTA360 / MT643
Rated Cap: 7 Row Handicap
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EastCoastCB
No car made in the last several decades is.
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your car changes its oil itself continuously.. just change the filter every few thousand miles..
-Christopher
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06-13-2017, 07:16 AM
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#2437
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,829
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cadillackid
your car changes its oil itself continuously.. just change the filter every few thousand miles..
-Christopher
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But the car itself is so chintzy and plastic. Between its total loss oiling system and all plastic construction I expect this car to last about long enough to pay it off and wheel it to the curb on trash day.
EFFFF Subaru!
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06-13-2017, 12:27 PM
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#2438
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Central Florida
Posts: 939
Chassis: GMC or Chevrolet, I hope
Engine: gasser probably
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Found this on Craigslist.
2002 Ford Shuttle bus conversion.24Ft. Long.7.3 power stroke diesel motor*
https://lakeland.craigslist.org/rvs/6148471919.html
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the more i learn, the less I know what to buy . . .
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06-13-2017, 01:15 PM
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#2439
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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 cadillackid
it has something like 44" tires or something on it.. they were saying each tire / wheel weighs like 300+ lbs..
-Christopher
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Reminds me of a story from a couple years back.
I was at an auction and bought a pair of tires and wheels because they went cheap and I thought they might fit a crane I have and it would be nice to have a couple spares. (Turned out the wheels didn't have the right bolt pattern. Oh well.) Only other thing I bought was a partial crate of replacement teeth for excavator and loader buckets. I did some quick estimating and decided that I could fit it all in the bed of my pickup if I loaded the teeth loose and left the crate there. What I didn't realize (and what caused a tire on my truck to blow before I got home) was that the tires had the foam filling, "never get a flat" stuff inside them. So instead of weighing 400 lbs each, they were actually 1,200 apiece.
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06-15-2017, 09:43 PM
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#2440
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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