. GREYHOUND's MIAMI DADE TRANSIT 1979 RTS 8V71N ENGINE AUDIO RECORDING OF BUS #P-43.

Folks here is an audio recording of retired Greyhound's RTS bus #P-43 a 1979 GMC RTS T7H603 bus with Detroit Diesel 8V71N engine and Allison V-730 transmission. This bus was 1 of 3 buses that i remember seen on route-29 back in 1989/90 back when Greyhound Lines had contracts to run on some MDT routes the other 2 buses were P-41 and P-42 plus a few 1980 T8J204 RTS buses that were lease from Miami Dade Transit .Folks the model bus you see on the screen was built by me since i never took pictures of those 1979 RTS buses that were around at that time so this is what they looked like. Folks bus #P-43 was recorded in 1990 on route-29.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• GREYHOUND'S
• MDT
• 1979
• GMC
• RTS
• T7H603
• BUS.

[david123321ism]

Among the GMC RTS'S that Columbia,sc had, the 8v71 engine was the most common among them. I grew up hearing the pure greatness of the 8v71. It was a good engine and they last over 3 times longer than the engines in these new buses ever will. To hear this bus brings back good memories. This is the greatest bus recording i've heard hear on youtube.

[MAR1NAB5180]

@david123321ism I went by there in January 2004 thinking those RTS buses were still there but all i saw were Blue Bird buses so i kept going to Charlotte NC.

[PierceT520]

Where did you get those bus model's? I want one!!!

[MAR1NAB5180]

@PierceT520 I built them my self out of paper, carboard, plastic ,white glue and super glue.

[8v71buses]

Man I hear that 8V71 power. Awesome!

[PierceT520]

@MAR1NAB5180 Dang! You should sell those on ebay or something!

[pimps1986]

I miss those buses!

[david123321ism]

@MAR1NAB5180

If you go to the corner of lucius road and river dr in columbia, you'll see two rts buses and a gillig phantom parked across from the bus garage, but they haven't been driven since 2002.

[JUSXTREME96]

Green Lines used to have 15 RTS 03's until the early 2000's and one of them is still fixed in a bus garage in NY. They had square backs just like the one you showed on the video but when they first came out they had slant backs.

[henrythebusguy]

Amigo,those GMC RTS TH-8203 comes online in NYC Triboro Coach RED and GREEN Jamaica about 1979 about,and ir were a real good times too work the coaches plus drives those but they is retrofit the A/C condenser ON IN there HVAC bye now nor the radiatore no more plus with the coolent tank up in there this times form on the V730 compressor line as well. So we our now listenig too the genuwine real athenic sound the SUPERCHARGE 8V71 drive Diesel Grande. is wonderfils righ,too hears againe amigo?