Caught this while heading home from work. A rare tandem axle Crown, my first capture of one of these. Recorded Sept 14, 2015 Oxnard, CA on Victoria Ave.
I grew up in Los Angeles and was bussed to junior high and high school on these from '73 to '79. I always loved the 2-stroke Detroit engined variety for the unique raspy exhaust note though.
I used to ride one as a youngster in Lancaster,CA. LAUSD. Your Tehachipi videos are what made me sub you, and now you go and find another childhood memory!
Nice catch of a Twinkie. Good to see that there are still some doing the job for which they were designed, and proof that Crown built quality buses. And you are so right about the sound of the 6V92 on your Crown Series II vids, that is exactly what buses should sound like.
you know, good question. My assumption, and maybe my mistake was I thought two axles automatically made it tandem axles. Maybe not the case. I hope someone out there can give insight, definitely don't know it all, and always willing to learn. Good question.
+1MTSRider It is true that Crown offered both types back then. How to tell? If one set of rear wheels is moving but the other isn't, then it's a single reduction axle plus tag, otherwise both sets of rears would be moving. I want to think it is the true tandem setup since I can see both sets of rears are moving.
