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Originally Posted by SwampYankee
Please stop egging me on.  Every now and then an International Metro shows up in the Bargain News and that aforementioned, unsupportable "vision" pops up.  I'd really dig a 40's-early 50's school bus to make into a camper, either ratrod or hotrod themed. A local bus company has had a couple sitting in their back lot for years. I guess I should be thankful that I don't have anywhere to put it otherwise I'd have anothe p.o.s. project sitting around in my yard waiting for time, energy, money and ambition. |
There's a downside to that. I bought a '59 Ford schoolbus years ago, hoping to make an RV out of it. It was mega long and had a turning radius worse than modern vehicles of the same length. The steering was manual and really serious workout when you had to extricate yourself from an intersection that you judged incorrectly, owing to the lousy turning radius.
Plus the tranny was non-synchro, much double clutching and that was only effective some of the time.
In short, I abandoned the project and sold it to a younger hippie with the same original fantasy I had.
I do like the bodies on those old rigs, those Allied moving vans pictured -- if you could put in a new drive train and front end (w/power steering) could be really cool, but sounds like a "bring money" sort of project.