Man that brings back some memories. When I was a kid they were mostly using newer 85-86 but every now and again we'd ride on one of these older buses and that whine they made.. wow. That brought me back almost 40 years. Thanks!!
i will be 40 this year i was born in 1983 i remember being in High school we had some 1999 Chevy Mid Bus with same sounding Engine good times and they were gas Powered
When I was a kid in the 90's, one school district still had an old 79 Ford bus. It was in the "boneyard," meaning it was a backup bus they used if other buses were broke down, and it was the last one they'd use. I rode it two or three times. It was old bus 1, and it had been the one my Grandfather had driven new when he was a school bus driver in the same district. He retired in either 80 or 81.
Awesome! I am here in the states, and we had Canadian Blue Bird school busses when I was a kid in the early 70's. Even though ours were Ford's, we had the same transmission in them. Those sounds bring back a lot of memories of my youth. Thanks for sharing your great bus!
Omg me too! I couldn't tell you what model year it was but I remember this sound from my elementary years in the early 90s. It brings back memories of field trips!
I rode on a GMC bus just like this one on a field trip when I was in first grade…in 1994! I still can’t believe that there was one of this vintage still in use at that time.
Excellent, geez you should make more videos these buses are really rare in this condition and especially recorded while driving. Love that Clark tranny and 366
I agree! There's another video that was made with this bus, a few months ago and I said the same thing that you did. As a result, we have this video. Hopefully there will be more including driving on the highway and even the sound of straight cut gears. To be honest, I have no idea what I just said there, but I know what it sounds like.
Nice, 427 heh the other option, well the price of gas makes driving it a more of a pain of course, when I was going to school back in grade 2 in 1988 there were many around but it was these gas buses that got me into cars at an early age and I was always amazed that they were gas engines almost like the old chevy gmc half tons basically hauling around that much more weight and yes they were an industrial version engine made for working all day heh, tall deck more torque focused lower revving. Nice v8 sound at the end.
I seen that vid too a few months ago, I'll keep checking for more vids there's a guy on RU-vid Corvairwild type in "366 chuggin uphill and it's an old gmc dump truck that sounds like your bus heh
@@ericrichard858 I remember hearing the same sound out of trucks in the 80s and possibly the 90s, as I was growing up in Toronto. I went to a summer camp for the blind up in Muskoka and they had a white activity bus (also a Blue Bird) which also sounded like this and I only had a chance to ride in it twice. The second time was going horseback riding and on the way back, there was the sound of straight cut gears, which I had mentioned in my previous reply. Unfortunately, the fan was on and blocking out some of the noise of the engine and the whine. I've never thought to ask how they drive like that and that slowly, with a Standard to make that noise.
As a youngster, I remember riding in a wayne gmc automatic school bus model. True. Thomas, the bus company, had a GMC school bus model, and it was an automatic too. It was 1988.
Everything was "laid-back" in the day. Even, riding the bus to school. The fishbowl city buses put you to sleep along the way. Today, ppl be all in your face. Sad
