"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 02/05/2014 at 17:50 • Filed to: None

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Holy shit, guys, look at this thing. Sorry, past the name, you know as much about it as I do - I just found it on a Dutch webpage with not really any more info.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/05/2014 at 17:58

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I did not expect the front to look like that based on the back.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/05/2014 at 17:59

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Sight seeing tour bus of some sort.

stuttgartobsessed > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/05/2014 at 18:01

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Well going by the name given on the photos, it seems to have been designed/built by Pegaso and/or Hispano Suiza. You know, the Spanish companies that built these, the Z-102:

and the H6C Dubonnet Xenia:

Pegaso went on to build buses and trucks in Spain and eventually turned into IVECO I believe.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 02/05/2014 at 18:02

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It's almost... normal. If normal is a 50s Caddy *car*, that is. With "Pegaso Diesel" on it.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/05/2014 at 18:04

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Yeah, they certainly took a 50's Caddy and built a bus right on top of it.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > stuttgartobsessed 02/05/2014 at 18:04

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Yeah, that's what I meant by you knowing as much about this as I did. I did a whole bunch of Pegaso posts a month or so back, actually. It's just a mystery as to how Hispano-Suiza and Pegaso ended up with their names on a diesel bus with tail fins pretending to be a spaceship made by Cadillac.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 02/05/2014 at 18:07

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Lies. I'm pretty sure this thing was seen near Roswell.

stuttgartobsessed > stuttgartobsessed 02/05/2014 at 18:20

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And after further research on the bus itself, I believe the bottom photo to be a 1957 Ayats 33 Passenger bus built on a Pegaso chassis and designed with a Cadillac front end (Though the Cadillac front end looks like a later design so not sure how that happened...) The top photo appears to be a 1958 Pegaso diesel bus also by Ayats. Though my Spanish is limited... Anyone with better Spanish skills should have a go.

http://retrobuses.blogspot.com/2012/09/carroc…

Though from some other designs, it seems that the lead designer at Ayats (a Spanish coachbuilder) named Jose A Lopez was heavily influenced by US automotive design. It also seems to reason that he put his bodywork on Pegaos chassis and used Pegaso engines. I believe the Hispano-Suiza name is used because the Pegaso company was operating out of the old Hispano-Suiza factory.

stuttgartobsessed > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/05/2014 at 18:21

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I realized that after I posted and re-read your post. Therefore I did more research on the bus itself. See below...

stuttgartobsessed > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) 02/05/2014 at 18:25

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That's because its a different bus in each photo...