The RTS is a vastly underappreciated bus. Composite body, stainless steel frame, and built for hard city use. His coachbuilder did an outstanding job. That front door is awesome. It looks like it was built with it from the factory.
What a stunning coach. Beautiful inside and out. Thank you for showing us, and thanks to the owner for sharing his experience. Definitely one of a kind, and absolutely beautiful.
I will know for sure if we ever cross paths. I do have that TV rig in mine. Not too hard or expensive. I bet folks see it and say Prince isn't dead, he went RVing!!
OMG this is amazing. The first indication we didn't have an average bus was electric shades in the windshield. Then more and more and more. "Rainfall shower with built in lighting" - many would dream of this in their house! Very very nice. Much more than a purple bus. Must have cost a fortune, but look at the results.
I have never slept in a bus let alone owned one but this coach inner desing and the way the rooms are layed out seems to me like an absolutly PERFECT place to live in. Beautiful!
Oh, this is a great looking coach. Very nicely done. Love the one piece front door. These have always been a well styled bus. When GM decides to do styling right, they get it fantastically right! Style wise, these buses were decades ahead of their time.
Started not liking the purple but the bus is so nicely laid out and of such high quality. It won me over. It’s the best conversion I’ve seen on the channel.
Ever since a kid touring Lake Buena Vista and the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Orlando, I have been in LOVE with RTS Bus!!! Ashamed they don't have them anymore:(
Wowsers - even his broom was lavender/purple! The workmanship on this bus is really, really impressive. Like the color or not the caliber of the build is really impressive.
What a beautiful conversion I really love it and the colour is as he says very calming and love the hide away television who would have known that was there Best wishes from Derrick in Wales UK
I heard him just fine, but that is not a bad idea. Other than wireless mics and having to mix audio, he might have been louder if he had been in front of the camera during the tour, but I think it came out okay with the camera leading the owner-narrator through the tour.
I'm not a huge fan of purple, but I could definitely see myself in that bus on some really long trips. That is super sharp. And my wife loves Prince so she would probably be an easy sell
Nice bus RTS busses are great for converting roughly 6' 10" head room 102" wide typically the same running gear as a hwy bus maybe a different gear set up But bullet proof if I ever build another one I'll do one Scott ask him where he got the TV lift I've been looking for one for years I saw the drive video yeah that wheel has seen better days . Thanks for sharing.
I love it not just because it's an RTS bus with 6V71 and ZF transmission, but because it reminds me of a starship on wheels decked out like that. Something from my fantasies. Looks very secure and ultra comfortable. A living dream.
Fabulous conversion.....the color is awesome! The fact that the RTS is contoured makes it all the more unique over all the other boxes on the road. Very European modern interior! Flawless in design and execution....one of the nicest conversion s I've ever seen...(nice to see an RTS find a new life. The MTA snapped most of ours....)
I remember the place I grew up had these RTS buses, until the late 90s. Disney World also had a fleet of these, with the last one being retired in 2010.
That's a fantastic bus, nice layout, BIG bathroom.. And he'll never not be able to find it! Though IMHO there's a little too much purple, but personal tastes and all that. Way cool bus that looks like a really nice place to be!
my first car was a 59 beetle, i painted it the stock black with the doors and quarters in light ivory. Whenever people asked me for a ride, not knowing what i drive, i would just tell them to stand next to my car when i leave, they always stood next to the right car!
I drove them when I was a transit bus driver from 1988-2010 and we called them "RTS" rolling ton of sh!! They were hot in the front in the summer because of the front windshields generating the amount of heat in the winter, they were good for the winter because of the heat, they had 6v92t motors which were turned down to 50 mph and you were lucky to get 47 mph and 15-18 up any small hill, put the AC on you had to turn it off to go up a hill (after a lot of operators got tickets because they couldn't get it uphill, they turned them up and eventually they changed the blocking sheet so certain routes were no longer given a RTS so they could get up the hills with the bus)
Great looking coach! Here in Canada, the RTS didn't fly, so GMDD came up with the GMC Classic which eventually replaced the New Look. GMDD produced the Classic until 1992 when it was taken over by MCI. In 1997, MCI became NovaBus, which produces their products out of the same former GMDD plant just outside of Montreal
I had no idea these could even do highway speed. My college used them and I doubt they ever exceeded 40mph in their entire careers. I love the workmanship on this one. I even like the purple. It's a little too much purple for me personally, but I love that the owner is bold enough to do it his way, and he did it exceptionally well.
That bus looks very comfortable. It’s wide and roomy. I can remember riding these on public transit and always thought how hard they rode and all the remember all the rattles. The conversion company did an excellent job. That bathroom is nicer than the ones in some homes.....so much headroom. Paradise Coach nice!
RTS is the model name, not the manufacturer - GM-built examples were also "RTS" examples. Nicely converted bus, even if I'm not crazy about the IP design and think it's a *bit* too much purple for my taste. :-)
