Its a sad day for school buses

[green180]

They're retiring the final pair of Crown school buses at our bus yard, these were the most reliable school buses we had

Here's one

 

[MikeRL411]

I see the makings of great camper conversions!

[TENDRIL]

canby caravan ??

[datsunaholic]

Reliable, had Cummins engines?  Crown went defunct in 1991, so parts had to be getting scarce.  Plus Californias anti-older Diesel smog laws probably spelled the end anyway.

 

They were distinctive, though.  Built on an actual bus platform rather than the more common Truck chassis school buses you see everywhere.

[green180]

They have 2 stroke flat 6 detroit diesel engines, these had 5 speeds, we have to get them crushed to get the California grant for new buses, so these are going straight to the crushers, its a 78 and a 79 crown

[danfiveten]

Crush the reliable ones so the new ones will break down in 6 months >.>  its how it goes.

[datsunaholic]

Oh, a 6N71?

 

Yeah, great engines.  But virtually impossible to get into a "clean" smog state.  Cali is pretty big on the "old is bad" kick.  Brave New World.

[datson4life]

my friend jumped out the window of one of those, he got stuck for a minute, ripped his pants and everybody saw his buttcheeks, one of the funniest things ive seen in my life.....that was in high school.......good memoreies on those buses

[spitznoz]

I rode one of those for 40 minutes everyday when i was in high school

[Ranman72]

the last bus I rode was one of those in junior high 

Our bus driver was smokin hot and drove it like a hot rod 

[tdaaj]

The Twinkie, local district retired the last three last year. Went to the scrap yard. I remember riding them as a kid. Best seat was the metal partition between the very back seats. Nice tray to set your binders on by the back window too. Only buses we had that I didn't have to duck just to walk down the ile. Seated 60?

[datson4life]

in high school we used those buses, and the rich kids on the other side of town got the stupid newer square looking ones, theirs had a/c :mad:

[Tristin]

Its not cool unless its a Bluebird...

 

[green180]

Haha last bus I remember riding in was a gillig, the bluebirds aren't that good, unless they have a cummins, everything around the cummins engines fall apart, thomas buses are just as good as the bluebirds, the cat engines are horrible though, crowns are the most reliable though

[Trophy24]

Got in trouble on one of those buses. We took the screws out of the seat and had a good laugh when the kid collapsed it sitting down.

It's hard to hand wash a bus! : P