(4K) Ride on a Classic 1974 GMC T6H-4523N Fishbowl Bus 

There's some things you'll never forget like the hum of an old buses engine just brings back memories .

Man this takes me back. I used to love the sound of those engines.

I just felt 35 years younger for a few moments. Riding the bus to and from high school. Cool bus and thanks for sharing!

"There's a bomb on a bus. If it drops below 50, it explodes....what do you do?" The movie speed is all I think of when I see these old GM fishbowl busses. On a more serious note, I'm jealous! I love your bus!

Talk about memories for me. I even remember at least one bus still having a manual transmission in regular service on the CTA. This was long before the interest in buses trains and other machinery sunk in deep with me. The covers over the cooling fan area and the transmission side were often an amazing sight to see flapping in the breeze while watching the CTA bus bounce and sway over the many potholes in the city of Chicago back in the day.

I also loved seeing you spin around the big wheel without power steering. All of OC Transpo’s New Looks were retrofitted with power steering between 1992 and 95...those that weren’t retired by 95 that is.

If you were a kid in the 70’s you definitely remember these ol’ girls running the city streets, seems like yesterday, pull the cord dink dink lol.

Nice to see the old Pierce Transit fishbowl still on the road, I got to see her on display a few times. A bud company where I lived as a kid had a few still working through the 90s and some are still in service today as shipyard worker buses

Wow ! thats remind me some good souvenirs ! I m 50 y-o and remember taking them, every days, to go to college Notre-Dame on Queen Mary St, and transfert for Metro at Snowdon station. The last ones in Montreal city, just before the arrival of the GM Classic, still with those DD 6V Thanks for sharing this !

Absolutely beautiful. I used to ride something very similar in Chicago many years ago

I remember riding on theses buses when I was little.

He had me dying laughing when he was turning the wheel at super speed at 6:42!🤣🤣🤣

Thanks for the ride

Amazing coverage

One of my favorite bus designs

I took these in Halifax as a child. At the time, I didn't like them much and I preferred the GM/MCI Classic series that came afterwards, but now I do miss them over the modern low-floor buses. These could hold more, and the seats were more comfortable.

I remember these buses when I was a little kid. Would love to ride one again.

Who agrees this better than today buses

This sure shows the difference of viability view from inside vs the New Flyer's or Nova buses of toady. They in My opinion, were still the BEST ever made & sad to see them go. Low floor's had to replace hem in the 80's. Never will be the same. Well done for video & hearing that what was known as the screaming gimme.

Sorry to comment yet again, but while watching this, it reminded me of the smell - does anyone else remember that slightly sweet diesel smell you used to get when the bus would pull up?

Great video, I miss Driving these Buses for New Your City

The sound of music, epic. We never had two strokes in Europe 😢

6:43 Man, I need him as a driving teacher

Phoenix had 30 of these 1961 & 1962 versions plus five 1965 models when I was growing up and many were still in service until 1985. 13 of them were 53 passenger and the others were 45 passenger. Our had 6V-92s in them and were air conditioned. Those buses just ran forever and rarely missed a day. Total engine failures (blown completely) were extremely rare. Memories are clear just like yesterday. Thank goodness you didn't destroy it's history by making an RV out if it.

I remember this make and style during my teen years in the 70s...

AWESOME 😊

Round of applause. 👋👋👋👋👋These Buses bring a lot of memories for me riding these types of fleets in New York, New Jersey & WESTCHESTER COUNTY.👍✅

That steering wheel is a good arm workout :)

Dig those fishbowl era buses that 74 GMC transit is kool runs amazing stops & steer right neat 44 year old bus.

Great memories of these in NYC as a kid. They looked spectacular in the light gray (metallic) and dark blue NYC Transit livery. I remember playing with the window knobs, sliding them open & closed. Constantly pulling the STOP cord, and listening to the seats and interior rattle on bumps, etc. I do remember disliking the back row seats even though they had a window to see back then, as those seats just got so dam hot to sit on in shorts due to the engine! I heard some of these didn't have power steering either, I couldn't imagine! Thanks for the roadtrip back in time, liked and sub'd, watching from the South Bronx in NYC.

Ok I thought I was going crazy, all the other videos had the exhaust on the bottom, but i remember as a kid in the 80s loving to sit in the back and watch the smoke come out the top, which is the way Chicago busses were

I’ve believe this bus were originally owned and operated by Chicago Transit Authority in 1974. If you take notice of the flyers and advertisements in the light fixtures, it all represents Chicago.

I miss the sound of these " hill climbers " . Growing up in San Francisco , these were the workhorses of the fleet . The Muni Railway originally had 370 of these in 1969-70 . In the 1980s , about 150 of these belonging to them were rebuilt with handicapped devices installed . They were renumbered from 3500-3649 as I recall and lasted until around 1992 .

🔴 I remember this beautiful buses in the 80s at Miami Springs. Fl.

OMG!!! I was a kid in Baltimore MD we used to ride these. I came here to see and hear the 3 things you nailed. The fare box, the overhead grab bar and the sound of the engine! I was told that the engineers slanted the side windows to calm the passengers boarding as to suggest the bus was always on time!

Nice bus and it's sounds awesome

This reminds me of my childhood I used to love riding these buses

best footage ever works great in VR mode LOVEIT thank you

Thank you for taking me down memory lane big time!! When I lived in Denver Colorado many years ago loved those buses by RTD transit and had flixible buses as well thank you very much!!

@RyanBomar, FYI the last Canadian built New Looks were built in London, ON in 1986 for Santa Monica. However, few were built after 1983 as the Classic got introduced. My local transit systems, OC Transpo and STO got the last of theirs in 82 and 83 respectively. Also, from mid-76 onward Canadian Jimmies’ transmissions switched to Allison 3 speeds that made heavenly sounds.

GMC needs to make a comeback with the fishbowls and RTS same engines

Thank you very much for posting this enjoyable video! I remember riding on these GM New Look model fishbowl buses as a child in New York City, Boston and other areas in the Northeast and as a young adult in cities in Canada when visiting and traveling up there. This bus you have is in great condition and appears to run well. I like the cushion seats. If I'm in the area sometime I would enjoy checking it out.

The Detroit Diesel was loud, little smokey, but goodness the sound. ❤

Very neat bus! Thanks for the many memories. Having grown up in Boston during the late 50s and 60s, I remember when the Fishbowls started replacing the antique busses and street cars. Then I spent about 40 years in southern California (Burbank, Glendale, Tujunga, La Crescenta, Montrose, etc.). Wish I could have been on board for this trip!

I think the buses in the 70s were a lot fancier compared to bus nowadays

Dang! I drove these classics for almost three decades in Denver until they retired the last of them.

I remember these old busses running around Tacoma when I was a kid. Probably rode on this bus a time or two.

How cool is this, my old high school a year after I graduated....those old buses been around for almost 30 years before this film was made....I think these buses were built right after WW2 ended.

Wausau Area Transit System ended up with the last order of GMC T6H-4523N buses in 1977.

I like the manual windows that you could open. Especially when someone on the bus farted. Todays bus if someone fart everybody has to suffer.

Sooo cool Ryan! 😍 much better than the Leyland 25 old clunker I went to school on. Thanks for sharing this experience.

When bus was a bus not all cheap plastic bus of today where you can feel the engine

awesome video!

Holy rpm batman

Awesome bus , I rode plenty of those in Edmonton AB. ..we even had the electric trolley busses , man they had a lot of torque .

Surprised to see a Johnson bar parking brake on a 74. Vancouver BC had a bunch of T6H-4523N’s that had a VH9 replaced with a V730. I work with two fishbowls in my local museum. 1964 TDH-4519 (updated to 4523 specs) and a 1982 T6H-5307N with a 6V92TA. Keep up the good work with your bus.

i remember riding these to murphy's dept. store with mom back in 71-72

I would love to take a ride on that bus!

I drove many of these GMC 'New Looks' for the 'Campus Bus Service' at Kent State University in 1975-76 (and some 'Old Looks' at Kent, also, including the GMC Old Look bus that was in the movie, 'The Graduate.') CBS busses were driven entirely by KSU students trained extensively at the time to drive these transit busses on and around campus, and around Kent, Ohio and was allot of fun...!!!

I remember those, Akron Metro used to have them.

Cool bus

I loved driving those on the freeway. Seattle Transit.

The spanish ad from Postres Royal from Nabisco also runs in San Juan AMA units inside and outside the bus

Two stroke Diesel? Your bus is great!

Ben Franklin Transit here in Tri Cities, Washington had new looks in their fleet, but they kept the 40 footers the longest. Those busses had 8v71s in them.

That order was delivered in June 1974 bus numbers 370-381.

Greyhound had a lot of these back in the day running from San Jose to San Francisco.

I love the video

Wow 2 speed transmission it’a like hydraulic with overdrive

Nostalgic!

Again, me being so used to seeing planes on your channel, I was sarcastically like "wow, that's a weird-looking plane!"

Driving one for an 9 hr shift. Is no fun I can only imagine how a driver felt after a long shift at work. I feel the beat down after a Gillig 😅

like bus

I always thought GM should have put 3 speed automatics in these. I remember as a kid riding these to school in Detroit . Detroit's had bench seating and many had a Detroit 8v71 in them with rear roof air conditioning.

Wish i could of seen this. You passed by my house litteraly

❤

The Green limousine

Boy I do remember this I r born in 1961 I remember that it had now power steering and no air condition back than

I wonder how much dirt would come off the steering wheel if I wiped it with alcohol. I thought something was wrong with the transmissions in MARTA buses in Atlanta. They would only shift one time.

Kenosha Transit (now Kenosha Area Transit) had 24 GMC T6H-4523N buses delivered in 1975. Last of them were retired in 2004.

Sure got some good get up and go for a Non Turbah 180hp 6v71. I want to know the gearing in the rear. It's almost chasing cars.😄🙋🏻‍♂️

Be kinda fun to turn one of these into An RV much more stylish as well

These buses ran in my city up until 2015. Was sad to see them go :(

I love the Fishbowls, which is why I watched this. But what are all the purple trees? I'm in NJ and we don't have them here. Thanks.

What was it like on that gmc bus?

This sounds great

문은 에디슨모터스 스마트11처럼 글라이딩도어인가요?

And that loud signal

Very cool. I was enjoying it until I seen the sheeple donning their obedience masks.... But thanks for the video & for saving that bus from the scrap yard. :-)

General Motors nunca ter pensado duas vezes na importação para o Brasil esses ônibus gmc nos anos 50 a 90 e era existir aqui no Brasil em utilizações nos transportes escolares e também urbanos! Esses tipos de ônibus são mais resistêntes e bonitos que tem parabrisa insana e as janelas laterais com as colunas inclinadas.

Just wonder, if you want to drive your private coach, should i get some special driving license? In my country you have to open "category"- A for motorcycle, B for cars, C for trucks, E for buses. How it's work is US?

Do you still own that bus? Would love to get a down the memory lane ride in the future when in the valley

Leather seats? That had to have been in service as an express bus.

Hermoso, quiero uno así, quiero manejarlo, jugar a que soy el chofer de un bus

Here you can compare to a typical same era german transit bus (Munich public traffic) by MAN: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FYdm1Bq7Lao.html&t

Over 14,000 lb older than 2010 that can't even be registered in California anymore

Rifan allá los "Chimecos"

Was this the bus that Rosa absolutely roasted that goofball ?

STAY ABOVE 50! its just like driving a big pinto

That 2 speed! Yikes