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Bus Stop Classics: Flxible “Flxette” – The Junior Leaguer…..
“The Flxible Flxettes……..they’re coming for you……..watch out…….they’re ready to cause mayhem with their lithe, lissome lethality…….” No, no, no, this is not a review of a Russ Meyer movie……. The...
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QOTD: 2000 Toyota WiLL Vi and 1952 Sears Allstate: What Do These Cars Have in...
Though divided by 50 years and two continents, these cars actually have quite a bit in common… As a follow-up to the great article written by Nigel Tate on the Sears Allstate a few weeks back, let’s...
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Bus Stop Classics: Japan’s Bonnet Buses – A Nostalgic Reminder of an...
Show a picture of the above bus to anyone from Japan in their sixties or older and you’ll get an immediate reaction: a smile and a recollection of a less frenetic “Nippon”, more tranquil, peaceful and...
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Bus Stop Classics: GM Old Look Update (1959-1969) – Hedging Their Bets
The GM Old Look Coach – a true classic in every sense. Most readers of this site know that the Old Look was produced largely from 1940 until the introduction of GM’s New Look or “Fishbowl” model in...
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Bus Stop Classics: GM New Look “Classic” Coach: Tried and True…
In a previous post, we looked at the GM RTS II bus – introduced in the late 1970s. The RTS II was a significant upgrade to (and major departure from) the GM “New Look” or “Fishbowl”, which dominated...
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QOTD: How Many Multiple Same Make/Model Cars (or Trucks) Have You Owned?
“If you find something you like, you tend to stay with it”…that old adage certainly has applicability to motor vehicles. If you’ve developed a fondness for a certain make/model, you’ll likely buy...
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Car Lot Classics: What’s On the Lemon Lot – May 2016
Just from glancing at readers comments, I sense that many CC’ers here have some U.S. military background – still on active duty, or maybe a Vet or retiree. Perhaps even a few of our non-U.S. readers...
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Bus Stop Fiction: GM, Flxible or MCI Coach…May 22nd 1966…
It’s still crystal-clear in David’s memory – May 22nd 1966 – 50 years ago to the day… He had just finished work down at the local Timken plant in Little Rock – David worked second shift so it was...
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Bus Stop Classics: New Flyer D40LF – North America’s First Low Floor Bus
In previous articles, we’ve taken a somewhat convoluted trip through some of the “loosely identified” eras of transit coach operations in the US. What were these eras? Well, transit historians...
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CC Outtake: Late 60s/Early 70s Mazda Porter Van – “May I Take Your Luggage, Sir”
I really enjoyed Paul’s article last April on his “once in a lifetime” drive of a Subaru 360 minicar. It spurred me to take a few snaps and scribe a few words on this lonely, little blue “kei...
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Bus Stop Classics: NovaBus LFS – Second Out of the Gate…
In our last Bus Stop Classics post we looked at how the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ushered transit coach operations into a new era – the “Low Floor System” or “LFS” era. We also looked...
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Bus Stop Classics: Gillig Low Floor Bus – Last Out of the Gate, But It Had an...
There are currently three heavy duty urban transit coach manufacturers that have US-based operations; New Flyer, NovaBus and Gillig. Of those three, Gillig is the only remaining company that has its...
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Bus Stop Classic: Neoplan AN440 – Transplanted Teutonic Transporter
I’m sure CC readers are familiar with Neoplan Bus GmbH– one of the largest manufacturers of motor coaches and other transport related vehicles in Europe. What you may not know is that from 1981 to...
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Bus Stop Classics: Orion I Thru VII – Cross-Border Cruisers…
In a previous post we looked at the Neoplan AN440 motor coach, an effort by the German manufacturer to provide US transport operators another alternative in the early 1980’s to the problem-plagued GM...
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Bus Stop Classics: American-Ikarus/North American Bus Industries – From...
Our European readers are no doubt familiar with Ikarus, a manufacturer of motor coaches based in Budapest Hungary. While Ikarus is still operating today, its heyday was in the period prior to the...
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Curbside Classic: 1982 Nissan Laurel “Special Edition” – It Has a Continental...
I must have walked by this early ‘80s Nissan Laurel fifty times – it’s parked in the lot of a local mechanic, on the route from our house to the nearest train station. I always give it an admiring...
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Bus Stop Classics: Sultana TM 40 SP – Southern Scenicruiser
A majority of our Bus Stop Classic posts to date have focused on motor coaches used in the US and Canada – we’ve yet to look at a bus from our other North American neighbor – Mexico, and as I started...
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CC Outtake: 1969 Chrysler 300 Convertible – Tokyo Leviathan…
Walking though our suburban Tokyo neighborhood always offers the chance of running across some exquisite, rare JDM classic – so when I spotted this on a recent Sunday, I couldn’t have been more...
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Bus Stop Classics: Dina Intercity Coaches – Stalwarts from Hidalgo…
Several comments on previous bus articles expressed an interest in Dina, or to be correct, DIesel NAcional, S.A (now known as Consorcio G Grupo Dina, S.A. de C.V.). For those not familiar, Dina is a...
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Curbside Classic: Mitsubishi Debonair (1964-1986) – Continental Lite
Imagine that you are a “fly on the wall” in the executive suites of Mitsubishi Motors in the early 1960’s. The subject – the styling for Mitsubishi’s upcoming model in the “executive” class, their...
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