Ball Family Bus

adventures in converting a school bus to an RV

Partial design drawings

I’ve been working on design ideas for the interior. Here are some partially completed renderings of what I have so far…

Design considerations include:

raising roof by 16″ to allow for 3 stacked bunks and putting the rear bedroom up on the first level of the engine box
allowing simultaneous use of toilet, shower, and sink
moving the [...]

Some photos at home

Today I took the bus to get the title transfered and get an Oklahoma tag. I took some more photos…

Picking the bus up

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 [...]

We bought a bus!

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 [...]