"Lost in the 50's" Double Decker Bus Rescue

[my90tp]

Now thats Class Towed By a Perterbilt (the 379 if I'm not mistaken)

[SAMIEWALLFORD756]

Why did you see that a second black reading information... Grey blank??? Unknown what is it? See that 2:00?

[harryfaber]

Good to know she has been saved. These Lodekkas are part of my childhood!

[DJ0VINNEY]

at 2:00 i noted some text wot dis it say

[DJ0VINNEY]

at 2.00 there text in vid wot dis it stay

[InternationalMovie]

@DJ0VINNEY It says: (Pt. I): "283 BWU is the registration number of the Bristol Lodekka FS6B which many Vancouver, B.C. area denizens know as the landmark "Lost in the 50s" bus which used to sit outside the diner of the same name on Edmonds in Burnaby. This vehicle was sold to a Coquitlam area car dealer and then sent to scrap one dark night (unbeknownst to the owner!)...cont'd

[InternationalMovie]

@InternationalMovie (cont'd...)

"...to a Surrey junkyard, only to be discovered by chance by Ian and Doreen Newby mere hours from its scheduled date with the shredder. In point of fact, had the night shift been working at the scrapyard in question as per usual, 283 BWU would truly have been "Lost". (June 2008)

[ed: when I made the video, the editing program wouldn't let me expand the time that the tail graphic was on-screen, hence the 'blink')

[DJ0VINNEY]

@InternationalMovie

Thank you

[thisiszaphodbeeblebr]

Keep it going! You do have a valuable vehicle, there.

[kawa7900]

well worth sorting , As they are getting very rare , and ideal as a tour bus for tourists.

[lloydpenfold]

It was new 7/1963 as West Yorkshire DX159.

[thisiszaphodbeeblebr]

What's the latest, then?

[WolfBrat]

It's sort of in stasis at the moment. We priced out getting all the bits and pieces needed to get it mobile and the total was...well...heart-stopping. So now we're looking at either getting a donor bus or resigning ourselves to making it presentable as a static 'gate guardian'. The extent of the hidden upper floor rot and wooden framing rot (behind the aluminum top and side panels) is...disheartening...but we'll try to do what we can this summer by way of stabilization.

[mickeymoose76]

Wait a minute, how was the bus being brought from a surrey uk scrap yard, to Canada, when it had been a longstanding Vancouver landmark? doesnt make sense??

[WolfBrat]

"Longstanding Landmark" got to be a nuisance for the owners of the "Lost in the 50s" diner, as vagrants used it for lodgings and the local street urchins used it as a canvas for spraypainted obscenities masquerading as urban art. Lost-in-the-50s sold it to a Coquitlam car lot who planned on using it for advertising, but the car lot lost its lease and folded its tent instead, leaving the bus in the parking-lot. New landlord then had it illegally towed to the wreckers yard and you know the rest.

[InternationalMovie]

@mickeymoose76 Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. Seems the world has several Surreys so there must've been a booming export market back in the ol' Empire days. :)

[mickeymoose76]

@InternationalMovie OIC, seems like it!

[enr3870]

@mickeymoose76 a scrap yard in Surrey BC Canada. 

[enr3870]

I was wondering what happened to that bus. Hadn't seen it in a while. Good to see it's been saved.

[islandtraction]

It's very pleasing this Bristol Lodekka FS6B has been saved! It was new to the West Yorkshire Road Car Co. between 1962-4 (can't say exactly when). I remember these lovely buses when they were new, with their Bristol BVW engines in full voice, they were pretty quick back then!