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10-01-2005, 03:22 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Idaho
Posts: 448
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What a tornado does to a skoolie
Here is a picture I came across of what a tornado did to a bus. I bet that bus sold cheap.
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10-01-2005, 03:58 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Grundy, Virginia
Posts: 632
Year: 1985
Coachwork: ThomasBuilt
Chassis: International Harvester S-1700
Engine: 9L IHC V-8 Diesel 180HP
Rated Cap: 60
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I wonder if that has a 4.33 rear end....
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10-01-2005, 07:42 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Valdez - The snow capital of Alaska
Posts: 55
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I just hope nobody was inside when it got hit!
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'91 Thomas/Ford B700 7.8L Diesel 5-speed (seats removed)
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10-01-2005, 08:55 PM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Duluth, MN
Posts: 243
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Wow, look at the school behind it too.
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10-29-2005, 09:06 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Posts: 786
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric von Kleist
I wonder if that has a 4.33 rear end....
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It looks like a blue bird TC2000 - I have one and it has a 4.33 rear end. I wish I had those storage compartments though.
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10-30-2005, 03:21 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: near flint michigan
Posts: 2,657
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I've seen photos of 2 different buses that got hit broadside by a train. In both instances, the body was torn from the chassis. Neither of them looked as bad as this tornado skoolie. That's impressive!
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10-30-2005, 05:46 AM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Off-Grid
Posts: 740
Year: 1982
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: IH S1723
Engine: IH V345 Gas V8
Rated Cap: 66
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric von Kleist
I wonder if that has a 4.33 rear end....
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I don't know about that, but it looks like there may be a few of those plastic window latches you were needing available!
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09-18-2008, 03:07 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Central Iowa
Posts: 1,839
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Re: What a tornado does to a skoolie
It looks like the damage might have been cause from it being rolled over many times? It would have also been hit by a lot of debris.
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10-16-2008, 02:25 AM
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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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Re: What a tornado does to a skoolie
And people ask how I can live in Kalifornia with all the earthquakes. I'll gladly take an earthquake every 20-30 years over a tornado every 20-30 minutes.
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10-16-2008, 08:37 AM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Buffalo, New York
Posts: 191
Year: 1995
Coachwork: Bluebird, Model 3800
Chassis: International
Engine: T444E
Rated Cap: 42
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Re: What a tornado does to a skoolie
Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycal
And people ask how I can live in Kalifornia with all the earthquakes. I'll gladly take an earthquake every 20-30 years over a tornado every 20-30 minutes.
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Same thing with living in Buffalo. Yeah, I have to shovel every so often, but at the worst, I can sit at home, in a warm house and sip hot chocolate in the midst of a big storm. I don't have to worry about tornados, hurricanes, mudslides, rampaging fires, floods, etc ...
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12-01-2008, 06:52 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: New England
Posts: 1,009
Year: 1993
Coachwork: Ward Genesis
Chassis: International
Engine: DT466/MT643
Rated Cap: 77
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Re: What a tornado does to a skoolie
Personally, I am still amazed at the fact it is more or less in one piece.
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12-01-2008, 07:51 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Clearlake, Northern California
Posts: 2,505
Year: 1992
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: TC-2000 Frt Eng, Tranny:MT643
Engine: 5,9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 84
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Re: What a tornado does to a skoolie
It's a Thomas. I wonder why it tore right at the top of all the windows? Does Thomas build the body hoops in three pieces like Carpenter did? My BB has one-piece hoops. (Well, it used to. )
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12-02-2008, 07:05 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Clearlake, Northern California
Posts: 2,505
Year: 1992
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: TC-2000 Frt Eng, Tranny:MT643
Engine: 5,9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 84
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Re: What a tornado does to a skoolie
The logo is visible on the roof, near the front.
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12-02-2008, 09:45 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Clearlake, Northern California
Posts: 2,505
Year: 1992
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: TC-2000 Frt Eng, Tranny:MT643
Engine: 5,9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 84
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Re: What a tornado does to a skoolie
Your eyes probably saw it, but your mind didn't -- because you were not interested in such trivia then. The human mind is quite selective about what it pays attention to.
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12-03-2008, 11:42 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Clearlake, Northern California
Posts: 2,505
Year: 1992
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: TC-2000 Frt Eng, Tranny:MT643
Engine: 5,9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 84
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Re: What a tornado does to a skoolie
Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmyaustintx
Elliot, what did you write about?
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Say what? In what context? Do you mean my Gainful Employment, or something more specific?
In my Gainful Employment -- which happens in the present tense, not the past tense -- I write mostly about automobiles, but also a bunch of other Stuff, like boats and trains and so forth, plus a touch of Social Commentary. No, sorry, you cannot read it, unless you are Norwegian, because I write it in Norwegian. And it is in print only, not on the internet. Once in a long while I write a story in both languages --the last were in Street Rodder and Popular Hot Rodding about ten years ago.
How did that come up?????
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12-03-2008, 12:34 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Clearlake, Northern California
Posts: 2,505
Year: 1992
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: TC-2000 Frt Eng, Tranny:MT643
Engine: 5,9 Cummins
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Re: What a tornado does to a skoolie
Ah... NOW I get it! I was responding to the post directly above:
Quote:
Originally Posted by CHEESE_WAGON
Interesting -- BTW I'm curious about something... I never saw a Blue Bird with the logo on the roof until I got into this site, what's up with that?
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Blue Birds generally have that swoopy bird on the roof, just like Thomas has the silouette of a bus with the word Thomas inside. But "normal citizens" would never notice -- they just notice a Big Yellow Thing.
You make a good point, Jimmy. I should have quoted what I was replying to. I applogize.
Now YOU appologize for the same, please!
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12-03-2008, 02:14 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Clearlake, Northern California
Posts: 2,505
Year: 1992
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: TC-2000 Frt Eng, Tranny:MT643
Engine: 5,9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 84
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Re: What a tornado does to a skoolie
If you could see the tornados (-- this is a thread about tornados -- or it was --) the tornados that are in my mind... not only would I have to appologize something mighty, but you'd probably run away screaming.
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12-04-2008, 11:32 AM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: leadville,colorado
Posts: 208
Year: 86
Coachwork: Thomas saf-t-liner
Chassis: International
Engine: dt466
Rated Cap: 40
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Re: What a tornado does to a skoolie
If that happened to my bus I'd still know it was my bus even if it were dare I say worse
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12-04-2008, 05:53 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: New England
Posts: 1,009
Year: 1993
Coachwork: Ward Genesis
Chassis: International
Engine: DT466/MT643
Rated Cap: 77
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Re: What a tornado does to a skoolie
Probably the ThomasBuilt badge above the licence plate next to the rear emergency door. I'd bet serious money it was a front-engine Safe-T-Liner.
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12-08-2008, 09:46 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Tecumseh, Michigan & Tempe (Phoenix), Arizona
Posts: 10
Year: 1990
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: International
Engine: DT360
Rated Cap: 66
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Re: What a tornado does to a skoolie
In my experience the easiest way to tell is that the thomas bodies usually have a metal blank at the end of the window row (right before the leading edge of the end cap), where it looks like there should be another half window or something. Bluebird has the windows going all the way back with no flat metal piece at the end of the window row.
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