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uglyota
10-14-2004, 09:42 AM
http://www.swicoauctions.com/pictures/-1/bus99.jpg
forkin sweet:
IH diesels, allison autos, "ran when parked" and will probably go for under $100 apiece
I figure those things have about 20 rows of seats. With six rugrats per row at about 100 pounds apiece, that sucker should comfortably carry 12,000 pounds. Cut off and seal the cab behind the first row of seats, put in conversion van benches and a bumpin system, platform everything behind it to carry 2 rigs, add hubcap spinners and neon and she's ready to go!
:gigem:

AggieTJ2007
10-14-2004, 10:14 AM
Where are they located at, it sounds like a good investment, you could even rig it up so the bus could tow another trailer and carry even more rigs.

uglyota
10-14-2004, 10:17 AM
in bryan
www.swicoauctions.com
My grandma would kill me if I took one out to our property :D

AggieTJ2007
10-14-2004, 10:32 AM
do you have to have a cdl to drive one of those or can you just not carry passengers for hire.

Fredo
10-14-2004, 10:38 AM
Cut off and seal the cab behind the first row of seats, put in conversion van benches and a bumpin system, platform everything behind it to carry 2 rigs, add hubcap spinners and neon and she's ready to go!
:gigem:

Something like this ya redneck? :p

uglyota
10-14-2004, 10:56 AM
not something...exactly :p
actually I'd want a wall behind the first bench, then a storage compartment where the second bench would be (for generator, tools, etc), then platform behind that, just long enough for 2 rigs....get rid of all that overhang.
the stacks are a nice touch...but mine would be chrome with those neon tips
and have some chrome trucker girl mudflaps
Think my neighbors would mind that in front of the house?
Dunno about the CDL license...Doug?

bburris
10-14-2004, 11:03 AM
I would imagine you'd need a CDL for something that large, but since you're not technically driving a bus with passengers I don't know if it would be the same CDL Steven and I (and others) have from BusOps...

uglyota
10-14-2004, 11:03 AM
here
edit: MSPaint doesn't have 'scalade white or chrome

uglyota
10-14-2004, 11:04 AM
so I'd have to get a job with BusOps for a week or two each year? :D

uglyota
10-14-2004, 11:12 AM
ooh...they're 72 passenger busses...that's 2 light rigs tops.
Maybe cut it long enough for one rig and flat tow another?
Or maybe I should get back to work...

btw nice sig, freddy :laughing:

StevenAg03
10-14-2004, 11:37 AM
just remember you get what you pay for...we have been selling aTm busses on ebay and lets just say that i feel for the people that bought them. parts are extreamly expensive and just cause they tran when parked dont mean they run good now

jwingfield2k
10-14-2004, 12:45 PM
Yes you would have to have a CDL for it. ANy bus that size (it is probably the legal limit of 45 feet long) you have to have a license for. Unless it has a bathroom and then sometimes it can be considered a recreational vehicle and you can get out of DOT inspections and such.

Not like I would know or anything :D

StevenAg03
10-14-2004, 12:51 PM
in that case chop a hole in the floor and call it a pisser

robertf03
10-14-2004, 01:13 PM
Steven are there any gas engines IH's there?

TexTJ209
10-14-2004, 01:33 PM
Could make a cool rig...but what about this thing?

StevenAg03
10-14-2004, 04:25 PM
Steven are there any gas engines IH's there?

negative ghostrider...all the ones we are selling have cummins 555 v8...allison mt643....eaton rear axle

uglyota
10-15-2004, 01:09 PM
Could make a cool rig...but what about this thing?
btw pretty sure that's a photochop

TexTJ209
10-15-2004, 01:21 PM
It was on eBay a while back, believe it said it was a custom built version for a School Basketball team, or something along those lines. Of course, it could have been both a fraud, and a photochop. But I have seen stretched burbans, etc. for schools before. Never to that extent, but hell...who knows.



It would have to be a good photochop. Here's the only other picture I have..

BMFScout
10-15-2004, 02:08 PM
not a chop, i don't know who made them but i have seen them before, after I win the lottery on saturday I am going to have the coolest one you have ever seen...

TRDyota
10-15-2004, 02:09 PM
If you were to make a flatbed out of a school bus, what would you need to do in order for it to be able to support the weight of a vehicle on the back? Surely the flooring on it is not strong enough to hold up a vehicle. And can the leaf springs handle that load?

uglyota
10-15-2004, 02:49 PM
by my matchbook estimations, they should be more than sufficient to carry 7200 pounds of rigs. there's a frame under there, so build ramps off of that

and the fuzzy grass and trees on the scout look suspicious

TexTJ209
10-15-2004, 04:10 PM
I think thats the ****ty digi-cam effect.

Doug Krebs
10-15-2004, 06:02 PM
If it's got a place to cook, a place to sleep, and a place to ****, you've got an RV... People register Class 8 tractors (big rigs) as RVs. As an RV you don't need a CDL to drive it and RV even if it has air brakes and is over 26,000.

Also, you only need a CDL if you are towing something and making a profit. However, if you are driving something over 26,000 pounds for personal use you need a class B or A I forgot which, but it's still not a CDL...

So, if you bought that bus, but a little cot in it, a porta pot, and somekinda of stove, and got it registered as an RV, you don't need a CDL, or expensive ass insurance.

BigRedFord04
10-15-2004, 07:40 PM
that would have to be a really really good photochop of that scout. look at the doors in the pic where they're all open. notice the progression as you can see less and less of the door panel? the only thing that looks funny to me is the pass. side window frame thru the 3rd door...kinda blurry. i think its real.

if i were to do that to a bus i'd leave a couple rows of seats and put a sleeper behind them. still plenty of room and capacity for tools and a rig.

uglyota
10-18-2004, 10:15 AM
must be why all the race trailers say "private vehicle...not for hire" on the side
they're still only at $125 right now!
I'd have to bump my AAA coverage up to RV

Jesse Y
10-19-2004, 10:07 AM
i say keep paint classic yellow. this would be badass.
http://collegehumor.com/img/s/scan44.w492.jpg

AggieTJ2007
10-19-2004, 12:45 PM
I say go for it and if we can't get it to work, I am sure the scrap value is about the same as the cost of the bus.

uglyota
10-19-2004, 01:01 PM
wanna store it for me?
:D

TRDyota
10-19-2004, 03:54 PM
You can keep it at my dorm. I promise PTTS doesn't hide in the bushes with their scanners waiting to nail any one who parks illegally...

TxCruzr
10-19-2004, 10:06 PM
I promise PTTS doesn't hide in the bushes with their scanners waiting to nail any one who parks illegally...

Maybe you should open your eyes the next time you walk by the bushes:gigem: I've acually been seeing them sit at the picnic tables stuffing their faces and then getting up when they see a car park.

You should go for a classic roadster look...chop the top and slam it. Then we could get it into my parking garage :gigem:

uglyota
10-20-2004, 09:06 AM
You should go for a classic roadster look...chop the top and slam it. Then we could get it into my parking garage :gigem:
oh hell yeah...cut the windows down to half size, tilt the windshield back...




and hubcap spinners :D

Sharpe
10-20-2004, 09:26 AM
Well **** if you're gonna use hubcab spinners why stop there. Go balls to the wall gay and get neon undercarriage lights a ****ing disco ball to hang from the ceiling inside. While you're at it paint it that smutty cadillac white color that all the rappers' escalades are in their videos.

uglyota
10-20-2004, 10:03 AM
disco ball--good idea!


and 'Scalade pearl white is the coolest color ever


go read your winch mounting instructions :flipoff2:

fbronco86
10-20-2004, 10:54 AM
If it's got a place to cook, a place to sleep, and a place to ****, you've got an RV... People register Class 8 tractors (big rigs) as RVs. As an RV you don't need a CDL to drive it and RV even if it has air brakes and is over 26,000.

Also, you only need a CDL if you are towing something and making a profit. However, if you are driving something over 26,000 pounds for personal use you need a class B or A I forgot which, but it's still not a CDL...

So, if you bought that bus, but a little cot in it, a porta pot, and somekinda of stove, and got it registered as an RV, you don't need a CDL, or expensive ass insurance.

Holy crap here goes krebs on his 18 wheeler crap again :flipoff2:

Sharpe
10-20-2004, 10:59 AM
Biiiooootttccchhhhh :flipoff2:

disco ball--good idea!


and 'Scalade pearl white is the coolest color ever


go read your winch mounting instructions :flipoff2:

agjohn02
11-02-2004, 01:22 AM
had to resurrect this thread. i found a pic.

savvyaggie
11-02-2004, 01:48 AM
Is that a WARN sticker on the side of the bus? Now thats funny.......I would be worried about the drivability of something like that, My dad has a winabago, and the tail sticks out rear far past the rear wheels, like the bus.... And he has to be real careful what he pulls with it, one time he tried to pull a 20' trailer that was about halfway loaded down ,and he was having trouble at highway speeds.... Any small turn would make the whole thing wobble back and forth, so much that you would have to slow down.... His winabago is smaller and lighter than a bus, but that seems like alot of weight inthe backend of that thing, past the rear wheels... I think I would of trimmed more of the cab off so that the scout sets about the rear wheels...

savvyaggie
11-16-2004, 07:14 PM
Check out what is on ebay right now, here is your bus hauler w'hyd. tail...


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4504248702&category=84151

jwingfield2k
11-16-2004, 11:43 PM
i used to ride around in a 45' eagle motorcoach and we got 4mpg with that thing and a 20' trailer. I dont see how one of those thigns would be practical.

savvyaggie
11-17-2004, 09:19 AM
i used to ride around in a 45' eagle motorcoach and we got 4mpg with that thing and a 20' trailer. I dont see how one of those thigns would be practical.


how practical is a chopped to pieces blazer????

jwingfield2k
11-17-2004, 10:46 AM
atleast i can see out my front windshield :flipoff2:

william_ace
11-17-2004, 11:19 AM
good one.... practical cause its cool, and holds a crap load of stuff and people.

savvyaggie
11-17-2004, 12:43 PM
atleast i can see out my front windshield :flipoff2:




hey now, I can see out my windshield..... Well the drivers side anyway... :p :p :p

jwingfield2k
11-17-2004, 01:14 PM
good one.... practical cause its cool, and holds a crap load of stuff and people.

I'll rephrase it... it's not economical.

william_ace
11-17-2004, 01:53 PM
agreed

bburris
11-17-2004, 04:46 PM
Why are you guys fagging this thread up with practicality?

:flipoff2:

uglyota
11-17-2004, 04:46 PM
absolutely nothing about this sport is economical

Sharpe
02-22-2005, 05:21 PM
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=90967&item=4529159334&rd=1
Here's one for you Eric.

uglyota
02-22-2005, 06:38 PM
in MN though...definitely a long drive. Wow I just had a thought! When I do find/build my schoolbus/crawler hawler/motorhome, I'll build it to run on veggie oil! Free fuel!

AggieTJ2007
02-22-2005, 07:23 PM
and the fack that there is not an engine in there, but Robert your 454 could solve that problem

Sharpe
02-22-2005, 08:57 PM
**** that he wants to run it on veggie oil and I have 4 6.2L diesels ate my shop. It could happen.

uglyota
02-22-2005, 08:58 PM
perfect!

AggieTJ2007
02-22-2005, 09:12 PM
You think you can flat tow a bus w/ an f-350 diesel

Sharpe
02-22-2005, 09:16 PM
Roflmao. You know, you could probably leave it at my apartment. If Mario's truck could spend a month here without getting towed I think the bus would be ok.

uglyota
02-22-2005, 09:17 PM
I'd try it, but at Nutz' rates I'd be better off driving a new one from the factory

uglyota
04-06-2006, 01:42 PM
resurrect!
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=440177
did International make a diesel with the same bellhousing bolt pattern as a 392?

BMFScout
04-06-2006, 01:46 PM
they made a scout with a little 4 cy nissan motor. Just put tbi on the 392.

agjohn02
04-06-2006, 01:56 PM
ive been meaning to post that for a few days

uglyota
04-06-2006, 02:03 PM
tbi won't make it run on hippie juice ;)

Fredo
04-06-2006, 02:23 PM
I thought it was a 6cyl diesel nissan? I'm pretty sure they turbocharged it too in the 1980 models. It still wouldn't be enough to motivate a school bus.

BMFScout
04-06-2006, 02:29 PM
6 cyl, 198 cubic inches, 101 HP Turbocharged, 175 ft/lbs. Should move a bus, a trailer, and two rigs just great! :)

agjohn02
04-06-2006, 05:01 PM
6 cyl, 198 cubic inches, 101 HP Turbocharged, 175 ft/lbs. Should move a bus, a trailer, and two rigs just great! :)


:rolleyes:... although, its not a whole bus


i bet you could live in there too eric, no rent= its economical, do it

Sharpe
04-06-2006, 07:38 PM
He already has no rent.