Awesome vintage bus rv conversion tour, stories, and history. For Sale custom coach conversion. 

Lance, my brother, Tom Tomlinson, worked for Bernie from 1978 to 1985. He drove that coach and the successor coaches that Bernie owned throughout the years. My brother spent many days driving to Custom Coach for service, updates, and unscheduled visit through out the years. Even though Bernie kept the coaches in Lakeland and Miami, those coaches went all over the country on the hydroplane circuit. I spent a few trips with my brother on the diff coaches. For the early coaches, Bernie would sell his old coaches to August Busch III and he would get a new one from Custom Coach. Those older MCI's ran like no other on highways and were great. My brother had a few speeding tickets to show for the speed those coached would on the open road. You have a great coach there, congrats on restoring it to glory days.

Man, watching Lance have to divest himself of his dreams is almost like a death in the family. I hate this for him.

Love seeing LANCE again, I wish him all the BEST!

It never ceases to amaze me ,them gm eingeniers laying that v8 on its side in hopes that it don't spew oil everywhere and lives a productive life ,awsome machines for shure

That is a very nice old bus 😍😍👍👍 $65 k that’s a bargain

It's a great bus! I especially like that he kept the windows, I think they look so much better than having smooth sides.

Been in Columbus Ohio my entire 67 years and grew up on the same side of town as Custom Coach. I used to love seeing the completed busses sitting out front waiting for their owners to take delivery as a kid.

Buying one of lances buses is a sound purchase. The amount of work he’s done to them and the research he has done on them is second to none

Lance is such a great storyteller. So entertaining to spend some time with him on his bus.

The bus is a moving museum piece. I enjoy learning the unique history. Thanks for posting.

Just love how they kept all the windows.

A beautiful bus Lance with an awesome history. Safe travels. Ken.

To answer Lance's question, yes, there was only one Antonov 225 and the one he has a picture of with a bus entering it is the one that was destroyed in the initial attack by Russia on Ukraine. It unfortunately was in a hangar that was bombed. Not much left but there is always hope that capital may be found to take the remains and remanufacture the damaged wings and attach them to the one fuselage that has been stored to make another Antonov 225. Too beautiful and unique an aircraft to let the remains be scrapped. Just like many unique old buses with amazing histories of their own. Thanks Scott and Lance for the history lesson on that beautiful bus.

Fantastic coaches. I drove a semi - custom one in the early eighties all over the US and Mexico. Front third had the standard seats, middle had two opposing couches and the back was an "office". Was manual shift. Ran circles around other coaches. Would take any hill and pass while doing it. Very nice...

I can’t watch a man’s heart break any more. That’s so tough.

Good to see you Lance, so sad for you. Someone is going to get a great bus.

Wow what a beautiful bus. I wish I had the money I would buy it in a heartbeat. It's just something about old buses especially how nice this one is

Im sure you can contact Seattle Komo news and, in their archives, have pictures/videos of the bus and the Hydo during Seafair races back then.

Danm I wish I had 65k on hand. Thst bus is awesome 👌 😊

Cant make it over there from St Paul til the end of the month, if its available then, Im all in.

That’s why it’s still running after 15 years !! It’s R12 system.

Used to see the Unlimited Hydroplanes in Detroit and remember the Drivers,buses and boats !! Thanks

Watching your video today, if this gentleman is interested in pictures of this bus, tell him to try the Hydroplane Hall of Fame & Museum in Washington state. If he hasn't already. Great video!

Dang, super good deal! Very high quality and historic build. Plus it’s a 4106!!!!

I'm an OLD boat racer. One time Bernie saw some boat racing jewelry (ring and necklace) I had on. He said - WHERE DID YOU GET THOSE (they were custom made by a friend of mine). Bernie contacted him and the whole crew received some for gifts (so I heard). I still have my jewelry and get many comments on them.

Best of luck Lance.

Miss Budwiser is in a museum in Seattle the museum is on youtube

Man , what a machine ! I would love to own it. I don't think I could afford the down pymt on the insurance!

That's definitely not the Antonov An-225 Mriya, that's an Antonov An-124 Ruslan. The An-225 is powered by 6 turbofan engines and has a split tail configuration to allow for the Buran to be carried on back similar to the space shuttle on the modified Boeing 747. The one completed An-225 was abandoned after the collapse of the Soviet Union and was revived and converted into a commercial freighter and entered service with Antonov Airlines in 2001.

Hey Lance! Such a nice rig!!

How cool is that and the asking price is very reasonable

Copeland was the compressors we had for bulk milk cooling on our dairy farm. They are very strong systems. Ours used R-404 refrigerant. 😊😊

Hey Lance you are great storyteller 😊😊😊

This is very cool. I grew up in Detroitand watched the unlimited Hydro races on the Detroit river as a kid, and I had a 1 cylinder Petter diesel in my English Westerly Sailboat.

The bus that beer bought! Very cool.

What a gorgeous bus!

Pretty funny stories. Thanks for the video.

My heart breaks for Lance

That's a beautiful bus. People don't appreciate the history and era of Big conversion buses and 2 cycle Detroit diesels that powered them. My mind goes back to the 80s when you had rock bands touring the country in these buses. Thoses days are long gone and the EPA has ruined the new diesel market. I run a DD15 and it's a good engine but the One box or DPF system as it's known had to be replaced before 500K miles. I love the old school diesels These new ones are junk in my opinion.

"Miss Budweiser". The good ol' days. Today Anheuser-Busch would have probably call the boat "Mx Budweiser"

That's the Ukrainian An-124 "Ruslan" of Antonov Cargo Airlines in the photo. As far as I know it is still flying around right now, 'cause all of them, except one, were abroad at the moment of the Russian attack on Kyiv, which led to the destruction of An-225.✌️☮️🇺🇦

Beautiful bus, it was built the same year i was born! That means i should buy it right?! Lol

I wish I needed a bus.

Hey Lance!

Saw a lot of their racing at lake Mead near Las Vegas used to go watch these boats run up and down very familiar with Mr Little and their whole racing team along with Ms Budweiser

Great history lesson.

Gotta love the sound of a Detroit.

Hey greetings from Cornwall uk

Lister Generators are some of the most sought after generators out there...most likely very low RPM too...which is why they last forever. I had one on my off grid home in Yellowknife, NWT. It was 30 yrs old and I had it for 6...it never skipped a beat.

It’s a beautiful coach....

keep the clips coming

Great price on the bus 🚌

Many miles...many snowstorms driven in a GM4106 line bus !!

Thinking about picking up a prevost with a 10 speed Allison transmission. Would love to have your shop look at it.

Very nice

At $ 65,000 I think it is a steal, but I'd want one of those MCIs if I had the money.

Nice

What an awesome amazing bus. Does the price include delivery. I'm in Melbourne Australia. 🤗

There is now a metro line linking the two airports

I own 396!

1955 GMC scenicruiser $7,500 Listed 22 weeks ago in Duluth, MN

Drool🤤Drool

Antonov 225 was a 1 off...almost a 2 off plane - it had 3 engines under each wing. ( total 6 ) That is the one destroyed recently in Ukraine. From the brief glimpse - your photo shows a Antonov 124. ( 4 engine )

That lister is very good we have welder 60 years old still great Lovely bus Is it 4cyl or 8

engine sound better than smooth jazz

Today you get a nice dress 👗

That has to be a LH rotation engine for sure.

Price fair,,,

Very nice, has the steering been upgraded to Sheppard?

Is that really an 8 v 92 laying sideways like that???

Movie bus

Shut up bot.

It going to go to scrap