FOR SALE - 1976 Chevy/Thomas C/60 Five Window - PARTIALLY CONVERTED

[DougK-SKO]

Bus for sale

$6000 CDN - LOCATED IN QUESNEL, BC, CANADA
Please contact me via PM for serious inquiries.

I'm selling my beloved bus. I spent a lot of time imagining this and started the conversion with a good head of steam. Then my metastatic thyroid cancer decided to stop responding to radiation and go on a growing spurt. I'm now on a drug that leaves me incapable of the work of finishing this project and also causes me to question if I could even physically manage living in the bus when it is done. It makes me sad to think about it but I sincerely hope this can be the starting point for someone else's dream.

Tell me a story that I like and I may give you a better deal.

1976 Chevrolet/Thomas C/60 school bus
GVW 8,025
Engine is a 350 on gasoline
Frame, body and inside floor pan are free of serious rust.
Engine runs very well
Needs a muffler (single)
The back door has no window in the lower hole and the window in the top spot is broken (in place). The door has significant rust in the bottom 2 inches of the door. I cleaned it out and sprayed it with rust converter

The bus served as a school bus in the Lac St Anne school district in Manitoba. When I bought it in November of 2022 It had been owned by a man who used it as a shed on his property for about ten years. The bus was regularly started the whole time. Prior to that it was owned by a man who ran an automotive repair shop at his home for many years, he has a reputation for integrity in all he does. He’s also a really good mechanic. When he owned the bus his sons took the seats out and made some attempts to camperize it but mostly used it for camping without building anything permanent inside.

• The bus is partly converted for recreational/buslife use.
• The exterior was lightly sanded and bare metal treated with rust inhibitor where I sanded that deep.
• The interior floor, boards and rubber, was removed.
• The floor was worked with a wire brush before cleaning and painting with heavy duty Chassis Saver paint.
• Subfloor is 1.5 inch XPS foam insulation (R5 per inch) with 2x2 framing and ½ inch MDF to cover.
• Back three windows on each side are painted from the inside then covered with 2x2 framing, bubble-type insulation, 1.5 inch XPS foam and MDF.
• The two rear windows on the left and right are covered the same way from the inside except the paint. I was going to rivet metal covers on the back windows to seal them up.
• The wood covering the front two windows on each side is plywood with holes cut for the windows. That’s where the donated MDF ran out.
• The wheel wells have MDF boxes with 2x2 framing built over them with loose cellulose insulation packed in for sound and heat insulation.
• The solid sheet metal panels are down from the roof, one is included for the back window covers.
• The ceiling under the metal was light fiberglass insulation and the roof metal covered with a bitumen based sound deadener on the inside. This was scraped off with a heat gun.
• Furring strips (2x2), were added to the roof frames for anchoring the ceiling and walls too.
• XPS foam insulation 1.5 inches thick is cut and placed between the framing and covered with a vapor barrier. There are some ceiling panels up made of strips of ⅛ inch door skin.
• A diesel heater is installed through the floor in the back with the exhaust run out to a marine type exhaust port in the skirt on that side of the bus.
• There is a 14” MaxxAir fan in the ceiling near the front.
• The roof has been primed and painted Liquid Rubber roof primer and painted down to the seam above the windows.
• There are two (2) 12 foot unistrut channels mounted on rubber mounts on the roof. Four (4) Renogy 100W solar panels are mounted on the unistrut and the wires are passed through a weather resistant entry gland into the interior.
• A four camera back camera setup is mounted with two cameras on the back of the bus (down and back), and one placed on either side at the front of the main body. The control screen is mounted in the driver's area.
• There are cupboards built into the front and back top caps on the inside. The cupboards in the front and rear caps are not insulated yet.
• Bus has a hasp for a padlock on the main door

Included items

• Renogy Rover 30A MPPT Charge Controler and wires
• Renogy BT-1 Bluetooth connection module for solar
• Air riveter from Amazon (needs to be reassembled)
• Eye and ear protection
• Two sawhorses
• Broom and dustpan
• Work Light
• Kildwick urine diverter for composting toilet
• Eight large tubes of All-Weather Subfloor adhesive. (good general construction adhesive)
• Three rolls of multi-strand wire appropriate for DC wiring.
• One gallon Zinsser Bulls Eye 1-2-3 Primer for sealing the MDF
• Bondo Glass and Body Filler (new).
• Rivets for the back windows
• New rubber seal for the back door
• Five inch hole saw
• Palm sander
• Adhesive tube guns - two sizes
• Remains of the Liquid Rubber Roof Paint (half a five gallon pail)
• Liquid Rubber Primer (half gallon)
• Remains of gray Chassis Saver rust converting paint (half gallon)

 

[DougK-SKO]

I forgot at least one thing from the list.

I have an Ampere Time 300 Amp Hour battery that is included. I bought it from their returned stock and paid $1200 CDN for it. The manufacturer says the warranty is transferable.

 

[ol trunt]

Sorry to hear your story and I wish you a miracle.. I too am doing the radiation thing and wondering what and when to do a rehoming with my bus. Guess I'll know when I know. You sure have done a nice job with your bus and you can be proud of that. Jack

 

[DougK-SKO]

Price reduced

I would love to see this bus find a new home before winter.

If you have $4000 it can be yours.

 

[nikitis]

It's a great price. I would buy it if I didn't already have one I purchased a year ago...

Someone will bite on that I'm sure.