Back in the 1980s through elementary, intermediate and High School those busses were popular. Every time riding with my older sister down Waianuenue Avenue after school, one of those old busses would kick on the jake and wake me up. I’ve always loved diesel powered engines. As a kid, I only got to ride on gas powered busses. The first time I got to ride on the Crown buss powered by the Detroit diesel engine was awesome. That was back in 1982.
NOTHING about this bus is bad. It sounds so good when shifting through the gears. That Detroit is pure ear candy to the point I would rather listen to that instead of music.
Good for a very old street racer like me! I can make lots of noise and power shift all day, and not break any traffic laws or risk any lives!!! That’s the reasoning that got me into the bus hobby
Amazing! How is it they were just put aside and not driven for thirty years? That Detroit Diesel sound is well remembered from the city transit buses here, back in the day.
@@aljenningscrownandgillig I highly doubt they even had to retire many of them. They just wanna be cool and hip with the new greener stuff. I mean I get it’s hard to maintain a bus after they quit manufacturing them. But even he really old buses probably still have service in them
Also. It’s Crowns and Wards that just seem to run forever. Some of those buses top out at 30 years of service some districts still operate them. If they still made the parts they could probably run another 1 or 2 decades at the least
REMEMBER THOSE IN HIGH SCHOOL BUS IN BELLEVUE WASHINGTON STATE. ALL ENGINE NOT MUCH ROOM IN THE ROUND AREA IN BACK OF BUS PURE POWER.❤❤❤ LOVE TO GET 1 BUT OK EVERYTHING IS 🙃 MONEY 💰 🤑 💸 🙃 ❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉😊 HE IS LIKE A KIDS IN A CANDY STORE.❤ 😆 🤣
Is that one of the Old Corona/Norco Unified School - Laidlaw bus... #39 #49 or #50. They were used to go up to Big Bear because 9f the 10 speed Fuller transmission. I see your running around Riverside California
I love driving 10 speed too! I run KW T880 super 10 dump truck with a paccar Mx-13 and Eaton fuller 10 speed so it’s a Cadillac but that bus you have there sir is a gem in fact I would almost pay you to let me drive:)
