Grimreaper86
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I have a bus I'm working on....but I was thinking of getting a second bus; for a variety of reasons I'd rather not get into.
Regardless.
I have about $3500 to spend on another bus and I'm supposed to go see a bus today that's almost the same as the bus I have now. It's a 97 International with 217,838 miles on it that someone converted to a party bus. Has three ac units and a generator that can power them and be operated from the inside. Looks like a nice sound system. I'd take out most of the seats and the stripper pole but the sound system and ac could stay all day esp cause the ac and generator are connected via breaker box so possible expansion to that could be potentially easy. It's to the T444e instead of the the dt466e that mine has but it looks just as big...looks like 26ft or something like that.
On the other hand we have a bus recently retired by a school system which is considerably newer. It's a 2013 about the same length. It's also an International. One pick of the odometer shows something like 160xxx miles. Regardless, it was used by the school until last month when they got new ones and it has regular maintenance records. The guys wife works for the school it came from and they owned it since it was new. Still has seats but they know a pastor that wants just the seats for their church bus so that could be perfect. It has a DT466 Maxforce engine and I imagine it still carries a DEF system. Obviously it doesn't come with some of the addons that the older bus has but all I know about the older bus is that it had regular oil changes.
What do you guys think?
Regardless.
I have about $3500 to spend on another bus and I'm supposed to go see a bus today that's almost the same as the bus I have now. It's a 97 International with 217,838 miles on it that someone converted to a party bus. Has three ac units and a generator that can power them and be operated from the inside. Looks like a nice sound system. I'd take out most of the seats and the stripper pole but the sound system and ac could stay all day esp cause the ac and generator are connected via breaker box so possible expansion to that could be potentially easy. It's to the T444e instead of the the dt466e that mine has but it looks just as big...looks like 26ft or something like that.
On the other hand we have a bus recently retired by a school system which is considerably newer. It's a 2013 about the same length. It's also an International. One pick of the odometer shows something like 160xxx miles. Regardless, it was used by the school until last month when they got new ones and it has regular maintenance records. The guys wife works for the school it came from and they owned it since it was new. Still has seats but they know a pastor that wants just the seats for their church bus so that could be perfect. It has a DT466 Maxforce engine and I imagine it still carries a DEF system. Obviously it doesn't come with some of the addons that the older bus has but all I know about the older bus is that it had regular oil changes.
What do you guys think?