1964 GM Bus

My Dads Bus.

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[SteveCarras]

@DeserTBoB93535

Ah...thanks! I've also seen difference in ALL of the windows, not just the "driver's side" rear (on the 4104, they looked "cut up").. looking at pictures...etc., and I remember some of the other things you mentiomed..sorry.:)

[DeserTBoB93535]

I'd still take a good '04 over an '06, anyday.  The 4104 was as good as OTR bus building ever got for GM. Everything else was downhill from there.

[DeserTBoB93535]

@SteveCarras Not true at all. The 4106 had a lot of major changes to the exterior. 1.) Different "silversiding" with wider spaced ribs, which became standard on all later GMs as well, 2.) wide destination sign, 3.) "spoiler" over the rear window, 4.) "4501-style" front ID lights (recessed), 5.) molded fibreglas light "pods" replacing the sealed beams on the '04, 6.) dual headlights replacing the singles on the '04, 7.) "squared off" window frame complete unlike those on the '04.and a lot more.

[pioneermci]

Prevost continue to offer Detroit as standard. They know that to drop that engine is to drop their large customer base. Operators aren't stupid you know. The Prevost has everything a coach should have: miminal overhang front and rear, huge bin space, integrated high capacity Carrier based a/c and Allison Transmission. The Volvo is merely constructed on a body built in the THIRD WORLD. MCI DROPPED Mexican construction and returned all coach building to Canada & USA. The volvo:All useless overhang

[studpuppy69]

@pioneermci News for you my friend, Volvo has owned Prevost since '95 if I recall. You buy a Prevost, you get a Volvo motor standard. The Volvo 9700 is made in Mexico, but it is an amazing coach I haven't had the pleasure to see or drive in person. The Dina F3500/Dina Viaggio and MCI G4500 were failures. Some Freightliner and Internationals are built in Mexico I see them crossing near Laredo, TX. I love MCI, but believe me the 9700 is the safest on the road today.

[pioneermci]

The trash from europe stays in europe. The volvo 9700 is built in Mexico. MCI tried the Mexican experiment and it was a failure. MCI and Prevost own coaches is a threat to the european builders to this very day. MCI pulled out of Mexico and have increased the capacity at their Winnipeg plant because operators demand quality that europe and the 3rd world cannot supply.

[SteveCarras]

For traditional, or the importance of having better driving over the national topogrpahy, or both, the country goes largely with stickk shifts. As late as 2002 I've seen the use of stick shift buses [Washington DC mall] and 2001 had a stickshift in South Dakota's Crazy Horse road mountain tourist stop.:)

[SteveCarras]

@studpuppy69

SKink, skank, skunk.:)Skink--is that some color on the outside?

At any rate, the 4104s and 4106s can't be told apart UNLESS you're standing on the driver's side with the segmented version of the familiar slanted windows at the 4104's back side [unless somebody TELLS you which it is!] On May 5, 2010, in Mexico, I rode a stickshift [the WAY to go!] Mercedes-Benz bus in Mazatlan, Mexico.

[AdmiralArcher]

What's he driving?

[SteveCarras]

1964-GMC--intercity--I take it that this is a 4106.