God I so remember 1963 -64 grade school riding in a brand new Crown school bus , Madera Cal...That sweet smell of diesel exhaust ,new tires ,fresh paint LOL and the smell of foggy morning mist... Can it get any better............
Used to drive a manual 63 crown with a 220 Cummins. Loved it because it was the same school bus I rode to school on for 7 years. Ended up being gutted and sent to the scrap yard. Tragic ending
I remembered these busses riding to school and on school field trips. That exhaust sound was sweet!! Crown factory was in LA. Great memories in the 70's and early 80's. Taft H.S. 1981. California.
That's a CA school bus from the early 70s cool times hot busses on the ride home or to field trips of the civilized children. 6th grade camp , marine land universal studio.
that is a hoot. Love the retarder. I'm driving a Blu Bird with a Cumins diesel and would be lost without the retarder. I hardly ever use the brakes for slowing down going down hills or curves. Love Diesels. They never quit
Nice restore job. Was that bus built as a "glass-topper"? Crown built some late 1950's and early 1960's school buses with glass tops. In the early 1970's, the CHP banned transporting students with glass panels above their heads. Be careful where you drive the bus with an A/T. The L. A. Unified School District had a fleet of 1968 Crown 2A-743-11 buses (fleet numbers 2201 - 2220) with Allison transmissions. We found that when driving over objects like chain link gate mounts, the tranny oil pan would get punctured. We had to instruct drivers not to drive over the center of school driveways where the gates are. What are the cables running down the length of the bus below the dome lights? I love a Jaked Detroit!
Just don't turn them on when you're on a public road. This is a mobile piece of history, and no California cop is going to ticket anyone driving this just because the red lights haven't been covered or removed. (Also, if you replace the red lenses with amber lenses, you're totally in compliance with the CVC.)
