Watching the Santa cruiser in those wonderful views really got the emotional with a bit of tear in my eyes. I’m now 79 years old but when I was 15 years old, I took a Sena cruiser from Chicago to Portland Oregon alone. My parents sent me to spend a vacation with my grandparents, on the way back I took a cruiser bus back for three days and two nights. What a wonderful trip it was both ways.
There it is 1.5 million Dollars, starting bid! Your bus cost $50,000.00 Dollars new, this was the equivalency to $575, 000.00. No doubt the Hesperus is a Rat-Rod. Nice bus!!! August
Rode these a plenty in the 1960s between Port Arthur Tx and Baton Rouge. Going home to BR they were mostly signed up NEW ORLEANS just like this one. Wow the memories.
My great uncle (by marriage) was Paul D Silliman. Paul as a boy was literally present (at his father's mansion in Hibbing, MN) at the founding of Greyhound, and he went on to work for them for decades before ending his career with Eastern Express out of Terre Haute, Indiana. I recall he had a large scale (not huge, just mean you'd use two hands to hold it) model Scenicruiser. Fred's manner reminds me of my uncle & it was uncanny to hear him say, "This is your Terre Haute Express...", because I'd heard my uncle say the very same thing to me when I was a boy riding with them.
Are they planning another one of these? We should have stopped and took a picture with my newly aquired coach, on the way to Texas from Ohio, my friend Walter was telling me about the rally as we drove by the exit.
Rode plenty of these back in the 1960s as a small kid back and forth between Baton Rouge La and Port Arthur Tex. Just like this one, most of the ones headed for home were signed up NEW ORLEANS. Going west they were signed up SAN FRANCISCO or HOUSTON. Hated it when the MC-7s took over as Greyhound's flagship in the early 1970s. Rode plenty of those too.
Hi. It's never really been open to the public. Someone in our group knew someone at Greyhound. Now the fleet is being sold one by one. The MC-7 is already gone, and others have sales pending.
What an appropriate place to have stayed for the night in Tulsa as the Desert Hills Motel opened for business in 1953 on OK Route 66 just a year or two before your GM PD4501 buses were built. Thanks for sharing!
Love the 1954 GMC Scenicruiser, the most iconic look for the Greyhound legacy. Wild seeing that the earlier Greyhounds were all manual shift.Something today's young folks wouldn't grasp.
" A real bus is a Scenic Cruiser " .You got that right !! I rode these buses when I was a kid with my grandmother. The new Greyhounds look like boxes. Wish they were like this now.
I'm just thankful that this bus is getting what it deserves and that is another life by someone who knows what they're doing and is most deserving of her. I just bought me a rare twin coach tc25 motorhome that I have to get working on. Good luck on your restoration! Can't wait to see another update!
Thank you for posting video. Nice to see Fred after 49 years. What a great person! Please tell him "Hello" from Boy Scouts who charted OTC trip to Idaho in '73.
