It might be early to pronounce success, but I thought I would share some initial findings… On Wed nights, I usually drive the car home from choir/orchestra practice. It’s about 35 miles of mostly highway driving, and I usually average around 45-46 mpg with the car (2006 Jetta TDI). Last night was [...]
Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by tony
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I took the bus into town Saturday to the gas station where I filled up the gas cans that I use for the lawn mower. It’s nice to have the cargo bay for smelly gas cans rather than the car trunk. It was fun to drive it a little - I felt [...]
Posted on June 23rd, 2008 by tony
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Before buying the bus I had read a fair amount about the requirements for driver’s licenses and RVs. I was sure that a normal non-commercial license was fine for driving a vehicle registered as an RV. But later I read some conflicting information about vehicles with a GVWR of greater than [...]
Posted on May 30th, 2008 by tony
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The poor bus (and blog) have been neglected lately (it’s the chicken’s fault!).
Thursday I topped off the engine oil, and started the bus for the first time in a couple of months. I was worried about it not starting, etc but it started with no hesitation at all. I drove it about five [...]
Posted on May 24th, 2008 by tony
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Well, it’s been a while… No, we haven’t abandoned the project! I’ve just been really busy with work and Easter festivities. I did measure the bus so I could calculate how much steel we’ll need to get, but I haven’t ordered it yet. Hopefully things will get back under way [...]
Posted on March 27th, 2008 by tony
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For drilling out rivets, these cobalt drill bits are awesome!
I got them from HardwareAndTools.com. Now the weak link in the process is me…
Posted on February 1st, 2008 by tony
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Last night we had some fun with the bus. We met some friends and went looking at Christmas lights all together on the bus. It was a total of 9 kids and 4 adults - we had hot chocolate, spiced tea, popcorn, boiled peanuts etc.
Power is still off in some areas but I think most [...]
Posted on December 14th, 2007 by tony
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for ice storms and freezing rain… We are thankful to still have power. A large number of people around the state have electrical outages.
Posted on December 10th, 2007 by tony
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Since the bus was in LA and we had a trip to Texas for Thanksgiving coming up the next week, the only reasonable option was to go get it right away! I spent the morning making calls to set up insurance and emergency roadside assistance, find out about titling the bus in Oklahoma, and [...]
Posted on November 20th, 2007 by tony
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After a few months of researching and looking at buses for sale, we found a good deal on Ebay. It’s a 1990 Bluebird All American rear engine bus that seats 84 kids. It’s in Ontario, California (an Eastern suburb of Los Angeles) - only 1,328 miles from here…
These are photos from the Ebay [...]
Posted on November 17th, 2007 by tony
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