That audio takes me back to my elementary and middle school days! So nostalgic! Loud engine with manual shifting, no seatbelts and no safe spaces! Lol. - might explain the difference between Gen-Exers and Millennials.
Osama I : I agree, unfortunately Crown closed their doors for good, such a timeless classic shape. Busses now days are really square, kinda like the snotty kids of this era...lol
Thank you for sitting in the back. You capture all of that Detroit Diesel sound. I had the privilege of riding one of these as a 90s kid. I would try to beat the other kids to that backseat position so I could capture the engine sound.
waoh awsome love that sound ive ridden a crown twinkie before same engine and 5 speed ive ridden the crown series 2 with the 4 speed automatic and a 6v92 detroit diesel love that sound
@@thevacuumtubejunky9774 I hope they invent that...I'm so sick of seeing videos without being able to smell the odor(s) I would be smelling should I be there in person. lol
I always imagined a DD engine of this calibur scaring the hell out of children. They'd hear it and after that, have to pop valium just to wait for the bus. They sound so angry its AWESOME!
Millennials and Zoomers would need a safe space after that. For West Coast Gen X and some Boomers, this was the everyday trip to school and back with all the sights and sounds. Looking back at it, it's so nostalgic and therapeutic to listen to. Reminds me of fond memories of middle school.
In the 1970's, I drove many engine and transmission configs but most were either the DD 6-71 or the Cummins NHH220. The difference: The 6-71 was two stroke and was quieter and smoother than the Cummins. It accelerated and decelerated faster than the the Cummins. The NHH220 was four stroke and maintained uphill speed better than the 6-71 but is was noisier and vibrated more. When you start the Cummins, the windows start rattling. Since the 6-71 fired on every downstroke, it had half the displacement of the Cummins, 426 CI vs 855 CI. Crown change mufflers in 1974 and the engine sound was not as loud or throaty with the new muffler design. Through 1962, the standard engine was the 243 hp Hall-Scott gasser at a massive 743 CI. This bus got only 3 mpg freshly tuned up and 2 mpg between tuneups and featured two distributors and 2 spark plugs per cylinder. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l3NP_pqFTzE.html, this video shows a 1950's Crown with the old muffler applying the jake brake in second gear. The jake brake near brings the bus to a complete stop. Crowns were not only the best school bus but they were the great buses for highway or mountain charter trips. Nothing was sweeter than coming down from Big Bear Lake (el 7000) down the grade with the jake brake on.
10:37 reminded me of the fire trucks I grew up with which had that same engine transmission combo pulling out of first gear. Love, love, love this video!!!
Nabinut : I grew up in a small town that had Crown fire engines, one of them didn't have a roof on it, like the one in the 70's show "Emergency", the fire dept still has one Crown that they fully restored with new paint, Alcoa aluminum wheels and lots of chrome and it's still in service today.
The first diesel truck I drove had a 6-71 and 10spd in it. I had to wear ear plugs, but loved the sound. My first truck I owned (1980 KKW 86" Aerodyne cabover) had an 8V-92TA 435hp and 13spd-which was virtually twice the power of the 6-71. Then I got a truck with a Caterpillar 3406B (which I still have turning into a motorhome) and had to relearn to shift-so different. I also have a bus with a 8V-71 that I turbo'd and air to air intercooled with Jake Brake.
This was middle school and high school bus rides for me. School was on the side of a mountain, no jakes but engine braking was just great! Transmission did some work going up and down those hills and the drivers could float gears so smooth
I had a 55 PD4104 GMC Ex WESTERN TRAILWAYS. Drove it from Northern Canada to Tijuana and back. Sweet 6-71 and the 4 speed Spicer crashbox. Armstrong steering. Good Times.
An older truck driver told me how to best drive a truck with a Detroit engine: Mash your fingers in the door so you'll be good and mad and want to abuse that engine. You don't drive a Detroit gently, he said.
I heard that diesel sound so often on the city transit buses here. I have not heard it for a long time. I didn't realize how much I missed it! GM built and supplied engines for buses until the 1990s. Then other builders and engines came along after GM Diesel Division in London, Ontario closed. RIP "New Look" bus!
The great thing about these school buses the engine compartment is in the back of the school buses . That makes the school buses better . The engine compartments in the front of the school buses sound.
This bus was a 1980 Crown School bus Engine this bus it equipped with a Detroit Diesel Serie 6V71N TurboDiesel ends a alison Fuller 5 speed manuel transmission
They aren't quiet. About the same noise level as an old GM PD-3751 Silversides bus. Basically the same engine, but mounted in the middle of the bus, under the floor, instead of at the rear.
Those were the good old days, they made a big mistake discontinuing the Crown buses, they were absolutely easy for the mechanic to repair. I miss double clutching that bad baby, they sound was definitely a force to be reckoned with.
CROWN COACH "The Porsche of busses". I would give my left arm for that bus, that would make the best schoolie motor home. I am curious as to what the max R.P.M. that Detroit has???.
@@busrailfan Looks to be a former California bus, too, with the rear quarter mounted stop sign. Interesting that Crown still made the early nose buses with the shorter windshields and stacked headlamp/fog lamps that late in production. All the early nose units that MISD (Mercer Island School District) had in the '70s and '80s were powered with the Cummins 743ci NHH220, whereas the automatic transmission buses with the newer front end had the 6L71. Those had more of a howl to them than this manual transmission unit does.
