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Bus Stop Classics: 1928 – 1933 Pickwick Nite Coach – What’s Old is New Again
Some of you may have seen a recent article of a startup intercity bus company that plans to offer “capsule hotel” type overnight bus service between LA and San Francisco – it’s called “Cabin.”...
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Curbside Classic Outtake: 2017 Toyota Tank – Patton Would Not Be Impressed
Car sales here in Japan follow the typical Japanese retail model – customer service is key. Example – if it’s too bothersome to head down to the ‘ole dealership, a sales person will gladly drop by...
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Bus Stop Outtake: 1951 Krupp SWO 480 – European Scenicruiser
Stepped bi-level or “deck and a half” buses were once very popular – Paul previously wrote a great overview of perhaps the most famous example, the GM PD 4501 Scenicruiser. But as we’ll see below, in...
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Bus Stop Classics: Pittsburgh Transit Expressway System (Skybus) – The Steel...
Pittsburgh has a rich mass transit history; inclines, trolleys, buses, light rail, etc. It was also home town to one of twentieth century’s largest electronics and appliance makers – the Westinghouse...
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Bus Stop Outtake: Autotram Extra Grand – World’s Longest Bus
As I’m sure readers and contributors to CC know, there’s a whole lot of photoshopping going on out there in cyberland – it’s easy to fall prey to some fantastic looking photo only to find out after a...
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Bus Stop Outtake: Technobus Gulliver U520 – World’s Shortest Bus
Last week we reviewed the Autotram Extra Grand, the longest bus currently in operation. That begs the question; what’s the shortest bus out there? Well, let’s refine our criteria a little first –...
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Curbside Outtake: Current Toyota Styling – Let the Tears Flow
I have been a fan of Toyota for many years – must have had over ten since my first 1974 MS60 Toyota Crown “Kujira” in 1981. Of the three cars we currently own, two are Toyotas. Styling wasn’t the...
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Bus Stop Classics: 1934-38 Yellow Coach Model 720/735 “Double Decker”– the...
I would imagine most readers would assume this “double decker” bus must be from the UK….or perhaps one of the “colonies” – Hong Kong? Actually, this is a 1936 Model 720 Series bus built by the Yellow...
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Curbside Classic Outtake: Current Toyota Styling, Take Two; Toyota Alphard –...
A few weeks ago we looked at several current Toyota and Lexus models that had at best some questionable styling elements. As evidence that those models weren’t outliers, allow me to introduce you to...
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CC Clue: It’s Not A Nash
OK CC readers – here’s one for you – name the make and model of this vehicle. I’ll give you one hint – its not a Nash…
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Bus Stop Classics – CC Clue: 1947-1952 Bedford OB CAC (Commonwealth Aircraft...
Several very good guesses but unfortunately no winners from yesterday’s CC Clue – but let’s take a look at this unique vehicle anyway. What we have here is a Bedford OB CAC 31/33 passenger bus – the...
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QOTD: Is This the Golden Age of Station Wagon Styling?
I’m old….AARP eligible old. So maybe that’s why I’ve been casting an approving eye at some of the new station wagon models that have recently hit the scene. I mean, I was a teenager in the 1960’s –...
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CC Capsule/QOTD: 1960’s Gerstenslager Bookmobile – When Was the Last Time You...
You don’t see many of these anymore. Hard to imagine in today’s online, interconnected world that there was a time when libraries were the main source of non-electronic information and entertainment...
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CC Outtake: Curbside Reminiscences From My Childhood
For me, the turn of the year always brings forth a sense of nostalgia – another year past and a longing to look back at the “good old days” of my youth in the early and middle 1960’s. More so now as...
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Bus Stop Classics: 1946 – 1959 Flxible Twin Coach Transit Bus – Chicago’s...
Here’s another bus you would have likely have seen or ridden in if you were spending time in any large North American metropolitan area in the decades of the 1950s and ’60s, especially those in the US...
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Curbside Global: Toyota Megaweb – JDM Fantasyland
Our only daughter graduated college and left the house about a year ago to work at a job in downtown Tokyo. She lives in Koto Ward, which is one of 23 wards, or boroughs, that make up the central part...
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CC Cinema/Bus Stop Classics: GM New Look – A Day in the Life of a Bus Driver...
I came across this quaint documentary video made by the Santa Monica Bus Lines – and it sure brought back a flood of memories of my bus riding days in the ‘60s. Coin changer, transfers, small talk...
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Bus Stop Classics: 1941 White Postal Service Bus – Neither Rain, Nor Sleet,...
What a beauty – this is a 1941 White 700 Series Transit coach, modified as a Suburban model, and outfitted as a mobile postal sorting facility. If you haven’t heard of these Highway Postal Buses, they...
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Bus Stop Classics: 1948 – 1959 Prevost Citadin Urban Transit Coach: Canadian...
I came across this picture and couldn’t quite make out what type of bus this was – but the back window design seemed rather unique. After a little research, I was able to pin it down. Glad I did...
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Bus Stop Classics: Greyhound’s Current Bus Fleet – Hopefully Eye-Opening
I really enjoyed Paul’s article on the GM PD 4501 Scenicruiser last week – and it got me thinking. That, and as you may have heard, Greyhound has also been in the news lately, unfortunately not in a...
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