So plenty of people are not happy to see that this badboy died and wonder why I did it. Let me put it to you another way. I bought It earlier that morning for $500. I paid the truck driver $300. I sold it to the scrap yard for almost $1800. (It would probably be much more today) That's $1000 profit in 3 hours. I'm not in the business of storing old crap until some idiot who's willing to pay more that it's worth comes along and foolishly thinks he can restore it. So it got crushed.
nothing happy about this video. It really makes me sad. I used to ride on these buses all the time in st louis and they always took such good care of these buses even though they were pushing 30 years old.
I was surprised this thing weighed that much. I watched our local yard tear apart a newer pusher bus with their shear when I was dropping off some old diassembled pick up trucks from my dads property. I would have guess 12k or so.
The city I live in retired these buses and use the more wheelchair/stroller friendly buses. The city have these buses sitting at the outskirts of my city and they are all vandilised and what not now.
@Hikikomori013 See; I see a fellow who is perhaps some $2600 more flush than having a decaying relic to gaze upon that no one had the funds or aptitude to restore.
@Begbucks That's fine for that particular bus, but I still have to see the slabs of ugly that prowl the roads every day. Why can't they make new buses look as good as the New Look? These days the body work looks like someone tried to make a Yugo limo.
@Hikikomori013 Yes no doubt; I do have to admit the rounded windshields & contours of the antiques did have a style that today's boxes can duplicate. Also I remember the ride quality was better due to all that heft.
@Begbucks Were they heavy by modern standards? They were popular with the drivers because the stressed skin monocoque construction was so much lighter than the older body on frame buses.
Hino of Japan has some very good looking buses.I wish we could get something like that around here.
I wonder if any of these idiots in those scrapyards ever thought of keeping that scraped bus taking of the wheels so it cant go anywhere and then giving that to some homeless people on the streets somewhere who could live in it and keep warm out of the freezzing cold snow and rain etc. They could also do this with cars all it takes is for the american goverment to spend a few hundread k at the most to buy a yard somewhere and then use that to store the vehicles where the homeless live.
Fishbowls could run forever if maintained, and if not outlawed by these stupid "green" laws. I watch these new clean-air hybrid electric buses being towed away daily because they break down.
I remember them and the B&A Old Look GMC while living in the DC area. They bused commuters and tourists between D.C. , Baltimore and Annapolis. I've always wondered what happened to them after the B&A RR went belly up.
They had this neat green and cream paint scheme. There is a great color pix of a B&A GMC Old Look in a book entitled "Baltimore-Washington Trolleys In Color" The book also has a great variety of old White & GMC Washington D.C. buses.
It breaks my heart to see this. I own two Fishbowls that I saved from the wrecker. They work just fine. But I'm a collector -- not many guys like me out there.
@StCatharinesRailFan8 I would save them all if I could. I understand that it's easier for a Mexican to sneak into the USA than to bring an old bus over the border.
I know it seems like a shame but in reality all the tires were shot, all the axles were completely seized up solid, all the windows were broken out of the back of the bus, the interior was completely gutted, and the motor was half torn apart and filled with rust. This thing has no chance of living again and believe me, nobody's buying whipped old buses. It was a bummer, but its time had come.
@barrishautomotive perhaps you could have turned it into some sort of restaurant or diner or something... Remind folks of the good old days! I think despite it's poor mechanical condition, it could probably have had a second life! Oh well!
You sir, are a dumbfuck :)
TheMetawulf 6 days ago
she could have been saved
Tedthexboxnerd 1 week ago
So plenty of people are not happy to see that this badboy died and wonder why I did it. Let me put it to you another way. I bought It earlier that morning for $500. I paid the truck driver $300. I sold it to the scrap yard for almost $1800. (It would probably be much more today) That's $1000 profit in 3 hours. I'm not in the business of storing old crap until some idiot who's willing to pay more that it's worth comes along and foolishly thinks he can restore it. So it got crushed.
barrishautomotive 1 week ago
nothing happy about this video. It really makes me sad. I used to ride on these buses all the time in st louis and they always took such good care of these buses even though they were pushing 30 years old.
mehlville97 1 week ago
that should rust away than been destroyed
haslotakieo 1 week ago
if i was a millionaire. i would have bought it and restored it. its too sad
bumblebee6595 2 weeks ago
makes me sick
Brothersjo 2 weeks ago
@Brothersjo you make me sick nigger!
rallotubbs1 2 weeks ago
@rallotubbs1 fuck you cracker!! go back to the corn fields. fucking honkey
bumblebee6595 2 weeks ago
should be illegal to scrap old vehicles
vwbusssesareforever 2 weeks ago
An easy restore job - what a waste!
thisiszaphodbeeblebr 2 weeks ago
I was surprised this thing weighed that much. I watched our local yard tear apart a newer pusher bus with their shear when I was dropping off some old diassembled pick up trucks from my dads property. I would have guess 12k or so.
aandrave 1 month ago
I missed the shearing process!
Begbucks 1 month ago
That bus is Texas mile material.
seapeddler 1 month ago
thats a shame. still, these are working vehicles, and when they're shagged they really ARE shagged
mrspivvy 2 months ago
The city I live in retired these buses and use the more wheelchair/stroller friendly buses. The city have these buses sitting at the outskirts of my city and they are all vandilised and what not now.
carzrawesomeful 2 months ago
Definitely a shame. The GM New Look was the last bus that had real character. The new ones seem to be all painted shoe box designs.
The guys with the cranes have real skill.
Hikikomori013 2 months ago
@Hikikomori013 Hey don't cry; it's just nuts & bolts
Begbucks 1 month ago
@Begbucks Nuts and bolts and style and art and character. I wish the new buses had some actual style.
Ugly is not a valid fashion statement.
Hikikomori013 1 month ago
@Hikikomori013 See; I see a fellow who is perhaps some $2600 more flush than having a decaying relic to gaze upon that no one had the funds or aptitude to restore.
Begbucks 1 month ago
@Begbucks That's fine for that particular bus, but I still have to see the slabs of ugly that prowl the roads every day. Why can't they make new buses look as good as the New Look? These days the body work looks like someone tried to make a Yugo limo.
Hikikomori013 1 month ago
@Hikikomori013 Yes no doubt; I do have to admit the rounded windshields & contours of the antiques did have a style that today's boxes can duplicate. Also I remember the ride quality was better due to all that heft.
Begbucks 1 month ago
@Begbucks Were they heavy by modern standards? They were popular with the drivers because the stressed skin monocoque construction was so much lighter than the older body on frame buses.
Hino of Japan has some very good looking buses.I wish we could get something like that around here.
Hikikomori013 1 month ago
@Hikikomori013 Well not the aluminum ones, But indeed aesthetics have taken a back seat - literally
Begbucks 1 month ago
It would also be much better than that cash for clunkers programe and would tackle homelesness by 80-90%
RceaEripsa 2 months ago
@RceaEripsa lmfao! nice one dude.
Evansmustard 2 months ago
I wonder if any of these idiots in those scrapyards ever thought of keeping that scraped bus taking of the wheels so it cant go anywhere and then giving that to some homeless people on the streets somewhere who could live in it and keep warm out of the freezzing cold snow and rain etc. They could also do this with cars all it takes is for the american goverment to spend a few hundread k at the most to buy a yard somewhere and then use that to store the vehicles where the homeless live.
RceaEripsa 2 months ago
haha bus 2525 from SPEED xDDD
Oli92Technik 2 months ago
Most painful thing to realize is that they don't drain the buses and spill all the fluids on the ground for us to ingest wake up people!
Sabertooth2500r 2 months ago
Fishbowls could run forever if maintained, and if not outlawed by these stupid "green" laws. I watch these new clean-air hybrid electric buses being towed away daily because they break down.
ukkfayooyay 3 months ago
thats the model from the movie Speed right?
alexander1485 3 months ago
That was tough to watch.
MrDeacco 3 months ago
@MrDeacco I agree. Would have been a nice one to refurbish. The moronic commentary was rather painful too.
407pilot 3 months ago
I remember them and the B&A Old Look GMC while living in the DC area. They bused commuters and tourists between D.C. , Baltimore and Annapolis. I've always wondered what happened to them after the B&A RR went belly up.
They had this neat green and cream paint scheme. There is a great color pix of a B&A GMC Old Look in a book entitled "Baltimore-Washington Trolleys In Color" The book also has a great variety of old White & GMC Washington D.C. buses.
WashPCC 4 months ago
This is really painful to watch...
baul104 4 months ago
pfff 66
ThePRINCEARABE 4 months ago
She looks so sad and helpless, looking into her eyes you could almost hear her say.. Help Me, I don't want to die yet!
thehouserocker 5 months ago 4
Tristeza ;(
Robusishere 6 months ago
Can't save it all : (
remie4494 6 months ago
It breaks my heart to see this. I own two Fishbowls that I saved from the wrecker. They work just fine. But I'm a collector -- not many guys like me out there.
ukkfayooyay 6 months ago
@ukkfayooyay you up for saving a TTC fishy? lol
StCatharinesRailFan8 3 months ago
@StCatharinesRailFan8 I would save them all if I could. I understand that it's easier for a Mexican to sneak into the USA than to bring an old bus over the border.
ukkfayooyay 3 months ago
yea i hear you there especially when you grew up riding and driving these
dls99 6 months ago
that hurt me watching that
97SCT 7 months ago
I know it seems like a shame but in reality all the tires were shot, all the axles were completely seized up solid, all the windows were broken out of the back of the bus, the interior was completely gutted, and the motor was half torn apart and filled with rust. This thing has no chance of living again and believe me, nobody's buying whipped old buses. It was a bummer, but its time had come.
barrishautomotive 7 months ago 7
@barrishautomotive Thats too bad, Id love to buy one of these.
xxxseXierIkAF4Grlxxx 2 months ago
@barrishautomotive perhaps you could have turned it into some sort of restaurant or diner or something... Remind folks of the good old days! I think despite it's poor mechanical condition, it could probably have had a second life! Oh well!
C33X 1 month ago
WTF
TheKingofTransit 8 months ago
Thats a damn shame. I want one of those buses.
twitchybusman 11 months ago
What a shame...that fishy could have lead a second life somewhere....
retroolschool 11 months ago
I think I'm going to be sick...
gmnewlook 1 year ago
Probabily coulda drove it off there if you dropped a couple battrys in and put some oil in the motor. That was painful to wach.
Ayeobe 1 year ago
Oh ouch... Those were some of the mst reliable buses ever built...
busrailfan 1 year ago