A used transit bus is totally better than a Deuce-and-a-Half!

"Stang70Fastback" (Stang70Fastback) 10/17/2014 at 20:53 • Filed to: None

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Just sayin'. THIS is how you ride in style! These buses actually corner fairly flat and have decent acceleration too, so they're basically race cars. With a starting bid of $500, how could you say no to something that costs $500,000 new?!

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jvirgs drives a Subaru > Stang70Fastback 10/17/2014 at 20:58

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Good old Blacksburg Transit buses.

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > Stang70Fastback 10/17/2014 at 21:04

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How good are these on fuel?

Stang70Fastback > BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. 10/17/2014 at 21:08

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About 3.5 MPG!

Bricks > Stang70Fastback 10/17/2014 at 21:34

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Looks like they'll probably go for around 15k.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > Stang70Fastback 10/17/2014 at 21:45

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These buses actually corner fairly flat

Tell that to the people who take those daily (I am one of those who did).

Stang70Fastback > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 10/17/2014 at 21:49

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Well I literally drove those buses (like, the one in the lead photo, and all the ones in the auction) and trust me, they really don't lean very much. It just FEELS like they do ;)

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > Stang70Fastback 10/17/2014 at 21:52

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it surely does. lol, my bus ride was often rocking side to side.

Stang70Fastback > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 10/17/2014 at 21:58

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Which route did you ride?

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > Stang70Fastback 10/17/2014 at 22:15

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Well, it's not the same city, but definitely the same model buses.

Stang70Fastback > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 10/17/2014 at 22:28

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Ohh, ok. Yeah, New Flyers are pretty popular. They're just about everywhere!

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > Stang70Fastback 10/17/2014 at 22:52

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My local transit had Fishbowls at one point, and are now either New Flyer, Invero or Orion, and some Hybrid version or something. There were some Nova LFS's as well, but I have no clue what happened to those.

Here's one freezing its mirrors off.

Stang70Fastback > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 10/17/2014 at 22:55

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Where I work now we have both New Flyers and Novas. I'm partial to New Flyer simply because they are the only ones we had at BT, and because I think the Novas look kind of... dated.

shop-teacher > Stang70Fastback 10/17/2014 at 23:01

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But you can't run over cars and through the woodsed with a bus.

You're right, I should buy a duece and a half AND a bus!

Stang70Fastback > shop-teacher 10/17/2014 at 23:05

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It's just a different solution to the problem. The deuce drives over cars. The bus just flicks them out of the way.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Stang70Fastback 10/17/2014 at 23:37

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Naw man, RTS or bust!

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Stang70Fastback 10/17/2014 at 23:38

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Stang70Fastback > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 10/17/2014 at 23:57

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I've driven one of those. The first half of the trip it was nice. The second half, a hole developed in the exhaust somewhere that caused it to not properly spool the turbo, so my top speed was like 7 MPH, lol.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Stang70Fastback 10/18/2014 at 02:35

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We used to call them "space buses" due to the futuristic design and the old starry logo that the PVTA used to use

Leon711 > Stang70Fastback 10/20/2014 at 11:35

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USA, why you buses no like this?

Stang70Fastback > Leon711 10/20/2014 at 14:06

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We have plenty of articulated buses. Those aren't rare here at all.

Leon711 > Stang70Fastback 10/20/2014 at 17:24

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OK, but what about double deckers like an amtrak, but not on tracks?

Stang70Fastback > Leon711 10/20/2014 at 18:03

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We have double decker motorcoaches for interstate travel. City buses not so much. Not sure why. All I know is I wouldn't want to deal with the loading/unloading times of a double decker. Not sure how you guys manage it!

Leon711 > Stang70Fastback 10/20/2014 at 18:20

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We seem to manage OK, with a double decker even with one door, some of course have two like London buses, but our largest local service Brighton and Hove are single door and A large percentage of the double deckers are hybrid too.

Stang70Fastback > Leon711 10/20/2014 at 20:21

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Yeah a large percentage of our vehicles are hybrids too. London has a lot of dedicated bus lanes, though, doesn't it?

Svend > Stang70Fastback 10/21/2014 at 02:22

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When I saw the title 'used transit bus etc...' my mind read 'used Ford Transit bus etc...', doh.

Still, as I'm here, have a used Ford Transit bus.

Leon711 > Stang70Fastback 10/21/2014 at 03:13

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it does, there are only a handful in Brighton and I live I small town a few miles out from there and don't come across them typically.

The Gray Adder > Stang70Fastback 10/21/2014 at 08:16

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I always wanted a LED readout for my car. You could program that thing to tell people to EABOD.

Stang70Fastback > Leon711 10/21/2014 at 08:21

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Hmm. I wonder if that's one reason. Lots of places here do, but LOTS of cities here don't. So traffic slows us down a lot, and then if you add longer stop dwell times to that everything just falls apart. Or maybe it's something simpler like needing to fit under overpasses or wires. Hell if I know!

Stang70Fastback > The Gray Adder 10/21/2014 at 08:22

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A whole bag?! Do I have to make them all cum?