1977 AEC Reliance Plaxton Supreme 3 coach start up, first time in preservation after 4 years

This is a quick video of my latest project. My friend and i have just bought her to restore. She has been derelict for 4 years after one of her body bearers snapped ! After just 2 weeks work she now starts and stops, holds water, has stopped leaking fuel and builds up air !!!! This is her running in preservation for the first time in 4 years we are overthe moon !!!!!

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• Plaxton supreme
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• vintage bus

[jaggass]

is that a 680 engine?

[sopsax767]

@jaggass No Leyland made the 680 engine ! This is an AEC 760 engine.

[hamish1314]

Well done mate,well chuffed for you..................almost as good as 6 numbers on a saturday night................can smell the engine from Ramsbottom.

[sopsax767]

@hamish1314 Lol thanks !!

[AECAH760]

@jaggass How dare you!!!! A far superior piece of engineering that should have been developed properly. Might have seen off Volvo if cash had been spent on PSV & Lorries instead of Allegro's and Princesses!!!!!

[mrspivvy]

@mgarrbomberstm here's one tourist that Malta's lost for good

[Stemax1960]

Dave Bowman loves his AEC's.

[merlinbus]

@mgarrbomberstm

That is awful that the old buses, full of character, will now be scrapped or just left to rot, in favour of the modern, souless vehicles. I`d love to have the money to save a few of the old ex LT AEC Swifts (SM`s). I drove them in the 70`s, when they were the most disliked buses on LT, but would love to see a few survive.

[mgarrbomberstm]

In malta at the moment we have hundreds of those but from 1 july onwards we are going to implement the arriva bus service with king longs ... NO more old ones ;'(

[Stemax1960]

@AliceeeVictoriaaa Remember the DAF MB200 engine was based on the 680 Leyland engine.

[Stemax1960]

I have met the operator whose name is on the front of that coach. We agree that there is a serious fault with the AEC. Nobody makes them any more!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jaggass]

moxon tours of oldcotes,notts had a aec reliance RDT89R.