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03-17-2016, 09:38 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: MIAMI, FLA USA
Posts: 19
Year: 1999
Coachwork: 34 foot blue bird
Engine: CUMMINS 5. 9
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new member- miami, florida
just purchased a 1999 TC 2000 blue bird. cummings 5.9 24 valve. I will build it out in homestead,fl. Would like to hear from anyone here south fla.
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03-18-2016, 08:26 AM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Miami
Posts: 172
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: MVP
Engine: CAT 3116
Rated Cap: 84
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I'm here in Miami, just up the road from you in Cutler Bay. I have a 98 Thomas RE that i am in the process of converting.
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03-18-2016, 09:02 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,700
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Seems like there are folks converting school buses all over the sunshine state. 
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03-18-2016, 09:11 AM
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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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Is everyone there prepping for the rising sea levels by going mobile?
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03-18-2016, 09:27 AM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: The Valley - Arizona
Posts: 644
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freight-shaker (Freightliner)
Engine: Cat 3126b 250 HP
Rated Cap: Only 1 seat
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tango
Is everyone there prepping for the rising sea levels by going mobile?
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If so, porkchopsanwhiches has a head start on all of us getting to Colorado!!!
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03-18-2016, 10:07 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,700
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tango
Is everyone there prepping for the rising sea levels by going mobile?
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Even if this map comes true, and the seas rise by 69 feet, I'll still be dry.
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03-18-2016, 10:30 AM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Ft. Smith Arkansas
Posts: 141
Rated Cap: 2+1
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But you might be setting on someone's head 
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Don and Ellen
Plus one fuzzy faced kid (Poopcee)
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03-18-2016, 11:52 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,700
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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They'll be paying me rent if that's the case!
Hmm gotta wonder how the property values will fare for those of us here in FL well above sea level.
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03-18-2016, 12:00 PM
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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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You can stay in Florida. You've seen those floating buses, haven't you?
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03-18-2016, 12:57 PM
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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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Brings a whole new meaning to "Scuba Miami" doesn't it?
Be kinds cool to swim around from floor to floor in all those old Art Deco hotels.
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03-18-2016, 02:19 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,700
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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All the good parts of Florida will be spared. 
and I'll be closer to the ocean!
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03-18-2016, 02:31 PM
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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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Florida is going to make a great reef as it submerges, especially with hotels.
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03-19-2016, 03:35 PM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Sarasota, Florida
Posts: 171
Year: 1995
Coachwork: International
Chassis: Carpenter
Engine: d466 mechanical
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Welcome! I'm here in Sarasota, Florida if you ever need anything.
To the conversation: Funny thing is, after my skoolie conversion is a pair of house boat conversions for vacation rental purposes.
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Nowhere Fast - Sarasota, Florida
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03-19-2016, 03:42 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,700
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Yeah I have friends who have lived in houseboats.
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