TRAMS Flyer E800 "Triesel" #V1109

On the DHR shuttle bus back in May 2006. DD 6V71 engine/Spicer 183 trans

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• bus
• flyer
• 800
• triesel
• bc
• transit
• trams

[general682002]

You and that long hair long ago!  lol!

[gprizzle]

D'OH, didn't realize I panned the camera onto myself at the end, LOL

[Jomar574]

Where is this place

[gprizzle]

near Granville Island, Vancouver.

[busrailfan]

@nmtoc - What city was this that you rode the Flyer's from 1976?

[nmtoc]

It sounds like there's a GM diesel engine in this bus.

Where I live, the Flyer diesel buses built from 1976 on back had a different make of engine. It was a two stroke diesel but much deeper sounding and noisier than a GM engine. Cummins, maybe?

[burbank]

This is a nice video. I remember these flyer buses in Boston as a kid and they stopped using them in the late 1990s, 1996-1997. I enjoyed this. Thanks for posting!

[douro20]

2-stroke diesel of about 300 horsepower... very unique sounding engines. They sound different because they fire at every revolution instead of every other revolution as with a four-stroke engine.

[ClassicTVFan82]

Flyers used V-drive transmissions beginning with the D800B models. AM Generals couldn't use T drive because they were USA-only models.

[PintoMusic]

As a kid I always wondered what made those busses sound different. From what I've read since then, those Spicer transmissions were used in old T-drive busses like Flxibles in the early-60's and Flyers in the late-60's/early-70's. The V-drive busses like Flyers from late-70's onwards and all the GM Fishbowls are the ones that used those Allison transmissions.

[Jomar574]

Gpizzle I think i saw you hanging out with your friends at Macdonalds in Metrotown i think it was you cuz it likes like you in the exact same look in the video

[jaggass]

i never heard of spicer transmissions i thought detroit diesel engines had allison transmissions

[Jomar574]

I want the Flyer E800 TROLLIES BACK

[Jomar574]

Lol i miss the flyer E800's i wish they came back but i am pleased TRAMS have some of the flyer buses please do make a video of the 1981 flyer d901a which is from trams to