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Heres A Real Hand Full



Lots A Dough Im Sure.

JOHN

Hi John. Interesting and sad find. Another dream ending. Seems that I have seen photos of that bus before.

It will be interesting to see if we find out what the reserve is. He has a ton of work and money in the project. I suspect that he will not begin to recoup even 20% of his parts cost let alone his labor.

If anyone is interested, recall that 01 Torsilastics are not available and that their breaks are quite a bit smaller that the 10s.

Jim

Hey John , Glad your home safe and sound, Say I talked to a guy at the rally from Neb that bought a bus just like that and I wonder if he got tired of it . When was it posted ?

Not that this will shock any one here but Clifford knows who the person is .

That would be a fun project! I wish I was 40 again!

I've been emailing back and forth with the owner. Come to find out it's someone I've conversed with long ago when I bought ours.

He said if it doesn't sell he'll finish the shell then sell all the goddies for the conversion. I sure hope it finds a good home. Someone is going to get one heck of a deal with a lot of work accomplished already.

Paul, did Vern say why he was giving up.
I know the engine and transmission is not going to work for him he was told that years ago a 8v71 is not going to handle a 45ft bus but someone told him it would with just bigger injectors.
That is a shame all the work he did to that bus to let it go but he may get lucky and somebody will give the 50g for it he wants but I doubt that will happpen in todays market

good luck
Clifford

Clifford,

He told me he bought a 99 Prevost XL 45! I don't understand why, maybe just tired of working on it and wanted to travel now.

I agree, it will be hard to sell the way it is especially with the 8v71. Sure has lots of nice goodies that's been collected for it over the years.

Sounds like a do it yourself kit, Converted Bus'n a Box maybe? LOL!

It looks like the work he did was top notch. I think I would have updated the rear end since I was doing all that work. Put something in there that I could get parts for.