This is way too expensive

"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
06/17/2016 at 17:17 • Filed to: Bus

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But I’m enjoying the idea of running a big old bus down the highway that you can live in, with this fantastic sound coming out of it

Why do 2-stroke diesels sound so good

DISCUSSION (20)

Ike > gmctavish needs more space
06/17/2016 at 17:23

WHY IS THIS WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS? DID THE AUTHOR LOOSE HEARING BECAUSE OF THIS THING? IM VERY CONFUSED WHY HES YELLING AT ME

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > gmctavish needs more space
06/17/2016 at 17:25

This may surprise you, but I think that’s a very good price all things considered. The 27' motorhome my dad has was bought for $8k over 17 years ago, and wasn’t in anywhere near that good shape, let alone on a solid bus platform. Bus conversions aren’t cheap.

gmctavish needs more space > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/17/2016 at 17:31

I hadn’t thought of that, an old bus would be a much more solid platform than an older motorhome. I want to rescue the school bus my dad and his friend converted in the 80s, it’s still sitting in northern BC as far as I know.

Birddog > gmctavish needs more space
06/17/2016 at 17:33

That isn’t bad at all for what looks like a well maintained machine.

Those old Screaming Jimmies do sound great eh?

Steve in Manhattan > gmctavish needs more space
06/17/2016 at 17:34

“Would like to sell by July 1st ...” And I’d like Scarlett Johansson to knock at my door and offer herself to me. But seriously - I can’t see how this is worth that much, but I have no idea what someone should pay for it. And it’s 55 years old!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > gmctavish needs more space
06/17/2016 at 17:35

I barely remember it, but my older sister and I lived with my mom and dad in an old green converted bus for a couple of the first years of our lives while my dad built the house. And yeah, the motorhome structure struggle is real. My dad’s one is a rib and stringer + aluminum structure one with fiberglass skin on a GM P-chassis which held up pretty well but has deterioration of the inside veneer and some window sealing problems - many of the ones out there are worse built and falling apart horribly.

gmctavish needs more space > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/17/2016 at 17:39

The one they built was for going to music festivals or just camping wherever. 1958 GMC with a big block, and a 5 speed. I’m told gas used to be cheap..... Oh damn, yeah I understand the premium placed on Trilliums and Airstreams and such, I do hear many things about endlessly leaking motorhomes and trailers

gmctavish needs more space > Birddog
06/17/2016 at 17:42

Oh do they ever, I had been known to spend too much time watching videos of old trucks with Detroit Diesels in them

gmctavish needs more space > Steve in Manhattan
06/17/2016 at 17:43

Haha, well others have pointed out that an old coach is a way more solid platform than an older motorhome, hence the somewhat off-putting price. I definitely had the same initial reaction as you

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > gmctavish needs more space
06/17/2016 at 17:47

It’s often the worst of both worlds: mobile home/IKEA-but-worse construction inside and out, and a drivetrain which permits you to move it not once, not twice, but dozens of times over thousands of miles. Yeah, that level of shaking and wind and abuse aren’t going to do anything... Sold with the implicit understanding that they will rack up very few miles and past their initial traveling that they will be total gefuckt. It’s not really a mystery why GM had a brief fling in the market - even ‘70s GM were like “have you seen the shit these guys are getting away with, I mean DAMN”.

Busses can be a pretty premium piece of hardware on the used market these days. In short, the one above is a deal.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Steve in Manhattan
06/17/2016 at 17:49

A 30-ft “normal” motorhome, by which I mean made on a modern chassis, but by Fleetwood’s lower brands and already half falling apart, could easily go for 150% what this guy is asking. You’d be surprised.

gmctavish needs more space > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/17/2016 at 17:53

At least GMCs looked fantastic

http://vancouver.craigslist.ca/van/rvs/562934…

Love those things

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > gmctavish needs more space
06/17/2016 at 17:55

Speaking of bargains - not shabby. May smell like pot smoke, though.

Steve in Manhattan > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/17/2016 at 17:57

Yeah, it’s not like finding that low-mileage SVX you always wanted.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Steve in Manhattan
06/17/2016 at 18:01

RV means upper middle class retired white folk, which means they want every luxury possible in the shittiest quality, because they’re going to tour half of the country once and get bored - and they’re willing and able to pay for what that requires: aforementioned garbagey Fleetwood. That high initial price experiences meteoric depreciation, but the landing zone is still pretty high.

Birddog > gmctavish needs more space
06/17/2016 at 18:12

I’ve wasted a few hours doing that too. There’s a video of a 3-53 powered Jeep I really love.

Steve in Manhattan > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/17/2016 at 18:12

I have no knowledge in this segment - I’d be prepared to buy an SVX or SHO cheap (the two cars I decided between when I bought my last one in ‘97) without a PPI based on my knowledge, but a giant bus? Nope.

gmctavish needs more space > Birddog
06/17/2016 at 18:15

I was on the highway a few months ago beside a TJ, was also aware of a diesel somewhere that I couldn’t pinpoint. The Jeep then downshifted, and proceeded to just dump plumes of black smoke everywhere as it went impressively quickly away. I’m thinking 4BT, I can’t see a 6BT fitting

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Steve in Manhattan
06/17/2016 at 18:17

True, but you’re not a 62 year old man named Dean with his 59 year old wife Margie and their mini-chow Scooter, planning to get a motorhome to pull a PT Cruiser and drive to a couple of Route 66 spots to buy cheap signs, drive to New Orleans, and then end up with the Bus-Like-Object parked somewhere semi-permanently near Myrtle Beach. What I’m saying is, there is a type, and that type’s habits control the market.

Steve in Manhattan > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/17/2016 at 18:21

I am none of those things - mid-50s, rent a car the 3 times a year I need one (try and make it something interesting) and my automotive history has no buses or RVs in it.