 Alright, today's the day. This is part of the transmission fix. It came up to Phoenix to triple-A bus. A lot of people were asking me, where to buy a bus? I bought my bus from a place over on the west coast. Very little road salt. Very little rust. But this place is going to be my new referral spot. Also, I want to thank everybody for all the Patreon and everybody who likes, comments, all the subscribers. Thank you so much for interacting. That helps the metrics of this as well. So, just want to thank you guys now. This is going to be my new spot that I send people. Phoenix, Arizona, triple-A bus. As you can imagine, there's not a lot of rain in the desert, okay? My preference is to have a bus with air conditioning. Many of these things do. So, if I were to do life over, I would come here and get the bus and I would look for air conditioning on it. That's my personal preference. I see three mechanical engines over there. Those are good for vegetable oil. But like I said, we were here to pick up a transmission. If you guys know Chris Travels, tiny home tours. He was out in the desert. That's actually Chris right there with his dog. He's here getting some work done. West Transcend Existence gets work done. A bunch of schoolies are always in the shop in the neighborhood. Because you'll meet Tony in a second and you'll see why people come here. Alright guys, this is my transmission. That is an MT643. I am replacing an AT545 for the mechanics out there. You know what this is. I also have the adapter stuff with it as well for the non-mechanics. I'm going from a crappy transmission to a pretty good transmission. This is the spot. Now, this is one of the more organized places I've ever seen. For instance, if you need a turbo, they have all their stuff right here. So high pressure fuel lines, there's all sorts of stuff. Air compressors, alternators, starters, engines, transmissions, bus seats, pallets ready to go. This is something for the steering, accessories, tires. You get the idea. The steering columns. This is, you know, you guys need a part for your bus. Give them a call. Ask for Tony. Oh my gosh, look, they even have all of these things. But give them a call. Tell them I sent you. There's nothing in it for me. We're just helping each other out here. I heard he's a good guy. So I'm buying a transmission core off of him. Ooh, I actually need one of these. These are about 300 bucks. And actually, I snagged one off of a bus that was being junked. And that's funny. I had no idea that they have that part, but they have that part. All right, guys, this is the man, the myth, the legend. We got Tony at AAA Bus. Tony is my new guy. For everybody who wants to know, where should I buy a bus? Jax, who do you recommend? Who's your guy? This is your, this is my guy. This is my new guy here. I appreciate that. And you're welcome. And I'm going to try very hard to help people. I do it. I've been doing it for a decade now. So I mean, you know, the clientele has changed. Back in the day, you know, I was dealing with buses. And, you know, I would have said it was an old man's sport 10 years ago. You know, there's a bunch of guys in MCIs, van rules, eagles, stuff like that. And back then I was doing automatic transmission conversions in these motor homes that were custom built out of coaches. And, you know, it was always this story is, hey, Tony, I'm getting too old. I can't push that clutch in anymore. I need an automatic. And I'll tell you back then it was like 10, 12 grand. Wow. Yeah, it was. It was actually a pretty pricey little thing. And now over the years, you know, the schooly thing is it has blown into people. You know, I enjoyed as part of it, you know, people. I like meeting people. So far I've had pretty wonderful experience with who I'm selling to and who I'm meeting. I'm trying very hard to find good people to do very good business with. And it is very important. I understand that people are going to put a lot of time, money and effort into it. And please, when you do this, there's lots of information on the internet. Some bad, some good. I spill that stuff out daily for free, I'd like to say. And I have, I made videos out there with other people and I do do it. And it's, I enjoy doing it. I can't sell to everybody. And, you know, the thing is, I have lots of people that I talk to on phone or online about buses and, you know, I can think of a guy right now in Tennessee, he called me up and just says, hey, I know him. I've talked to him many times and he says, hey, I got a chance to buy this bus for X amount of dollars and it was a good deal. It's like, hi, it's good. So let me tell you guys why I'm recommending Tony. Number one, geographical location. You got rush free buses. Sure. You got buses with air conditioning. Sure I do. And, okay, so second reason is Tony is a mechanic and won't sell you a bus that doesn't run out of here, you know, and he looks over it now. I mean, I have a great success rate. Yeah. I couldn't tell you about, you know, I tell people this, I am probably, I am close to a thousand buses for conversion in my record for that of people making it to where pick a state because I'll start telling you about the countries where I sold them to and we have people converting buses out of the country in every state from here. I have fans in Maine, you know, they were brave enough to have one guy to fly out here and buy one bus from me and turn around and sell about six buses to that group of guys over there, which, you know, in the end built some beautiful homes in them too. I love seeing that in the end. I'm building buses for myself now. By the way, Tony is a schooly owner as well. That is his bus there. So the reason I'm spending so much time with him is because I want you guys to know I had an issue with my previous purchase. If you guys saw that video, that's why I didn't recommend that place, but I can tell you from everyone who's worked with you because I know them personally. Chris is right over here. West transcendent existence comes in. We've got all the schoolies here. So this is the schooly guy. Natasha is my champion right there. Natasha, for instance, is a customer of mine. They flew in from France. They were here for two weeks. That was their allotment of time in the United States. They had to get out of here. They spend one week in California. They come and buy a bus from me. They drove that bus out of here, converted it on the road. 27 countries, 37,000 miles, 40 travelers in that bus. Wow. They left from here and went to Patagonia and back. Really? All central in South America. Here and back. That's funny. That's the bus right there. It's everything that people say you can't do. That thing has a 5.9 with an AT545 in it. I'm yet waiting for somebody to tell me that they've done that. That was a bullshit conversation that we had. And they did it. And I love it. Right now, they're my champions. That bus, they did a great job. Cool. You probably got to pick that up. No, I'm going to let it slide. It's the Thomas dealer trying to call me to ask me something. Okay, cool. Did you have a big inventory of parts so you don't just sell buses? No, I don't. That was a yes. It's a little hard to hear. I walk upstairs and I have about pretty much everything in here. You know, I pick and choose what goes in the warehouse, but I have a little bit of everything. I have all three main manufacturers. I like mechanical stuff. I don't do too much of that stuff anymore because time is very precious to me. And I try to spend a lot of time with people who are buying buses, but I mean, I have everything in here from fan clutches to brake parts, new, used. You got them all organized. You name it. Just hard to find stuff. And we start getting into stuff like this, you know, where if you had to buy something like this, you know, from Thomas, which is like a newer fuse panel. And they had a bunch of problems with these things. It's a pretty expensive part where he can buy this thing off of me for, you know, $200. You know, this happens a lot where we're selling parts, you know, and I do it for schools. I do it for schoolies. I do it for everybody in this situation. You know, used turbos, used hydraulic pumps, steering pumps. You know, I have a compressors, alternators, brake drums, used trainees, used motors, used radiators, blinkers. I mean, even blinkers. I have everything. I got probably pretty much every light that was on a school bus for the last 20 years, no problem. Wow. Cool. And those... We are coming to the boxes, sizes, what they are. And I remember I bought one brand new light alone and it was like 25 bucks, say 30 bucks were shipping brand new. So this stuff is, you know, dependent on what it is. You know, these tail light covers are somewhere talking dollars. Yeah. Actually, I just... It's good. There's some red, it's an international. Yeah. I just painted that. Really? Yeah, I painted it white. You know, and then if somebody gets into old stuff, you know, I'm a fan of this kind of thing. You know, you're personalizing things. This thing is old. It's cool. And it deserves to be on somebody's bus. And so I leave it up here and somebody's going to buy it. They want it. I mean, I have mirrors and all kinds of mirrors and here, wiper arms, windows, more lights than I can think of, hatches. Yep. I have very nice steering tires. Used tires, I do sell them sometimes. I use them myself, but I do sell them. How much for steers? Just dependent on, sometimes you buy a set of tires like that, offer me for $325. That's a pretty good price for a pair. Yeah. These are all really good. If they're up here, they're really nice tires. Dang. I might want those because I need to get my... These are really good. They're like brand new. Yep. I get them. Then you can see our tires in here. This is for... We have a project here that we're building, and it's a 4x4 Bluebird that we have over there. And it's... Wow. We really want to go four-wheeling it too. We want to kind of go push the limits of camping a little bit. Right, right. Awesome. We encourage anybody who wants to build something like that. Sweet, sweet. It makes us smile. I mean, if you get into something that you're having a hard time just choking down the price of it or just having a hard time finding it, I would love for you to call us and just give us a shot, say, hey, do you have it or not. Cool. Well, thank you so much for the little tour. Thank you for the transmission core and all the parts that go with it. Sure. And I do. I do conversion work. I have a lot of knowledge in that. If somebody wants to remove an AT and put, you know, a 643 behind a 5.9 or something like that, I'm the guy to talk to. If somebody really wants to do something really cool which, you know, it's always more money but if you wanted to put it 30, 60, anything's possible. I have all the components to do it here. Cool. And I have the knowledge to give you all the right stuff to do it. Awesome. So at least you're not taking it home and going, well, let's don't work. Cool. Cool. Well, like I said, I'm here for a reason. I got all the conversion parts. I got the core. Step number two of this transmission, I will call it experience, is to get that thing rebuilt and then installed. So we'll see you guys in the next video.