Sweet! An Trailways Eagle model 05, Greyhound MC-7s, MC-8s, MC-9s, GMC transit fishbowls, GMC-RTS units, & the school bus was from Superior.....all tough and well built. Just hit me how many "Made in the USA" buses we had running around back then. Today it seems that the Europeon coaches have the dominant presence. I remember one of the bosses at Gray Line being dedicated to buying American made coaches only. Of course he's long retired and things have changed radically. Thanks for posting!
The Hertz shuttle bus is a GMC Transmode which is the body shell of the front wheel-drive GMC Motorhome that was very popular in the '70s & early to mid '80s and is still pretty popular today, GMC would provide the bodyshells in either 23 or 26 foot lengths to companies like Hertz to customize to their needs, They came with a Turbo Hydramatic 425 automatic transmission and were powered by either a 455 ci or 403 ci Oldsmobile Rocket V8 engine with a QuadraJet 4 barrel carb, About the one RU-vid
Ansett Pioneer in Australia build under licence from Flxible a series of coaches known as the Flxible Clipper. After nearly 70 years a number of Flxible Clippers are still on the road today
I love this video and the music. I wish I got to see more slope back RTS, and I remember them as a kid but they was some what rare. Yes there were transit agencies in Los Angeles that had slope backs, like LBT, Gardenia, OCTD and LAX Hertz, but they quickly modified them to square backs. Sadly SCRTD/LACMTA order all square backs.
SEPTA, NJ Transit, Delaware DART, MTA NY, WMATA, MATA, Miami DADE, LAMTA, MTA Maryland, Connecticut Transit, MBATA, & etc! American buses always look and sound better. I'm from Jersey MCI nickname a coach model after my state mci 102a (the jersey cruiser) I wasn't born in the 80's bt to see a video of an era of dd6v92 roaming the street in every big or minor cities across this great nation got to love it
WE LOVE THOSE BUSES!!!!! --I like the fact that you showed all types, including those mobile airport lounges. I have been on those at Washington Dulles. Nice video music, too.
No, it didn't start in Australia. It started in the U.S. of A. at Hibbing, Minnesota in 1914 (check Wikipedia for further information about this originally AMERICAN bus lines company).
@ACLTony On the public transit side, just about every single bus in service today in the US was manufactured in that country, primarily because of "Buy American" requirements. Some are manufactured in the states by Canadian companies (like NovaBUS and New Flyer) that have a presence here, others by purely American companies (like Gillig).
This is when was when the EPA called these buses fuel efficient. Whole different story now. This also when Detroit Diesel Series 92 and Detroit Diesel Series 71 engines were the king of the mountain (not saying I have anything against Cummins).
I remember. The, "Fishbowl," new looks were great buses. In Atlanta, they came online around 1961 and many were still active as city buses all the way into the early 1980s. The transit system there replaced them with Grumann diesel buses. I'm not sure MARTA was happy with them, though. The "Old Look" GM buses were tough, too and they were downgraded to school bus service in Atlanta during the early 1970s. They used to have gumball machines in the rear of these buses.
@ford9572 I recognize Terminal 4 and Terminal 6 at JFK in some of the airport shots - back then this was the International Arrivals Building and the TWA Terminal. The former is long gone replaced by a modern T4 and the latter still exists but is not being used.
La visite est trop mouvant la présentation fixe et lente n'est pas faite...on ne vois pas les bus dans leurs détails ...dans la visite intérieur de chaque bus ..c'est un peu dommage
