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Truck shows

Post by biglever » Tue Mar 21, 2017 4:48 pm

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Truck shows

Post by biglever » Tue Mar 21, 2017 4:50 pm

]Been going to Antique and classic truck shows for the last five yrs. Seen every kind of rig, that runs the highway.
Hundreds of dump trucks, tow trucks, tractors, straight jobs, etc., Now I must say, I have a class A CDL. License, drove tractor trailer's over the road, and I like trucks!.
But I also have driven Buses. And currently drive a few days a week for a retirement community, take the residences on trips.
So back to the truck shows, last yr I made up my mind, to find a retired school bus, and bring it to these shows.
Last yr at the one show, I asked a dozen questions, about how old the truck has to be etc.
To make a long story short, I joined the national club, and two local chapter's, as well.
And I didn't even own a vehicle. At the time.
But that all changed about 3 weeks ago.
I drove my 1995 Thomas Vista 60 passenger International
Mod 3600 chassis, T444E V8
And it needs a lot of tlc, she's 22 yr old.Been collecting stuff for the shows, old bus pictures, things to display, as well.
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Re: Truck shows

Post by Cowboy Gun Fan » Tue Mar 21, 2017 11:24 pm

Looks good.

I remember them brand new.

Doesn't seem that long ago.

Time sure does fly.
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Re: Truck shows

Post by Henry88 » Wed Mar 22, 2017 4:14 am

Should turn her into one of those "Hippie" vans.
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Re: Truck shows

Post by biglever » Wed Mar 22, 2017 6:07 am

I have never seen one before, with that short pug nose.
That's why ,I had to have it, it's so ugly.
They weren't made all that long, they came out in 1989
But on Chevy & GMC chassis, then international chassis
Around 91. Then in 95 they changed to the 4 piece windshield, they call the wraparound windshield, and offered the v8 diesel , when freightliner bought out Thomas bus's they dropped the Vista body.in 1998.
I guess they were popular in different areas, of the country. I know the mechanics hated them, most of the eng. Is inside the bus next to the driver, summer time the drivers didn't like them because of the heat coming off the eng.
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Re: Truck shows

Post by biglever » Wed Mar 22, 2017 7:48 am

Last yr. At the two day show around 3,000 people came tru the gate. To see the 350+ trucks .
If my bus doesn't turn out to be a popular attraction, as I think it will be, then next yr there will be another another dump truck at the show.
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Re: Truck shows

Post by Squatch » Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:55 pm

A good friend bought a bus a couple of years back and turned it into a Skoolie. An amazing home built motorhome.
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Re: Truck shows

Post by DWD445 » Thu Mar 23, 2017 8:40 pm

Are you leaving it as a bus or converting it into something else ? Cool 8-)
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Re: Truck shows

Post by biglever » Fri Mar 24, 2017 4:28 am

I want it to be a bus, just as it is.
Only detailed and cleaned up as best I can.
I want it to represent all the bus drivers out there in the transportation field.
A bus driver goes to a truck show, to see all the old rigs
Doesn't just want to look at dump trucks and cement mixers, and tractor trailer's.
Now. They will have something to relate too, at the show.
There's just as much to talk about, when it comes to buses, as it does to talk about a Mack tractor, or a Peterbuilt, etc.
International chassis, or freighters, or Cummings or Cat.
What has more power, or rides better.
What buses pull the hills better ,when they are fully loaded. Etc.
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Re: Truck shows

Post by BrokenolMarine » Sun Apr 02, 2017 9:49 am

When I was in high school in FL back in the early 70s, a freshman, we had a favorite bus driver. She couldn't have been over five feet tall, and driving that bus full of teens. It was her bus, the mechanics had attached hard rubber blocks to all three pedals so she could reach them, the seat couldn't go any lower and her still see out of the bus. I never, in two years on her bus, heard her grind a gear or miss a shift.

Most busses (all busses?) these days are automatics.

What? Well of course, if her bus was in the shop she took a day off, if it was going to be a major repair, they moved her pedal blocks, or she took vacation time and visited her mom in Miami. Lol.
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