Some way of estimating interior height on buses I'm looking at online?

[Urbex]

I've read that, generally speaking, the "full size" type B/C/D buses are around 6 ft tall inside, down the middle, give or take a bit. Ok, works for me at 5'10". I can deal with that without a roof raise. I get that's only down the center, but that's all I really need - to be able to walk down the middle and use the stove without being hunched over.



Then I saw one of the big flat nose buses in the classified section where it's stated that a 9" raise was done for a final height of 6'2"....so it started at 5'5". On a bus that I would have thought for sure would have been a 6 footer...


Given that there's a not insignificant chance that I'll have to travel a bit to find that "right" bus, is there some way to be able to figure out at least enough to be able to quickly ID those buses that would definitely need a roof raise to hit that 6' mark short of asking everyone to measure their bus and hope that they measure the same way I would?

[DeMac]

I believe modern buses have ceiling heights between 5'11" & 6'7", from the factory. I've been wrong alot, but maybe the seller meant 7'2" after the 9" raise?


Center of factory ceiling, 6'7" to the bottom of the rib, no raise.


6'3" below this wood fur strip.

These photos are of higher resolution, more legible, in my Registry file↖.


All of our windows are 30" tall (driver's too) and the front door is also taller than the standard height door (e-door too). Distinguishing the interior ceiling height, from photos, proved difficult.

Most 'high-roof' models have a shorter driver window & entry door, than the passenger windows.

Look for a big forehead.

[HamSkoolie]

It's possible the builder did the roof raise to accomodate a substantial amount of insulation in the floor and ceiling.


We contemplated a roof raise as I'm 6'1" but starting with a 6'5" original floor to ceiling height we determined that our "mission" requirements could be fulfilled with a 2" (above the steel) floor and a ceiling 1.5" below the ribs leaving the center height at 6'1.5" plus the thickness of the original sub floor and original ceiling leaving about 6'2" to 6'2.5" at the center.
Being 6'1" standing tall at the docs and not generally any other time now that I'm out of the Marines, I'm probably only about 5'11" or 6' for my normal stance.
So no roof raise.
Though I may have to stoop a bit in the shower.