Scenicruisin'..?

mopar preferred · Sep 12, 2023

mopar preferred said:
How about a standard car hauler, and a chrome wrap on the bottom?
I wonder if you could put some corrugated metal on the bottom and cover it with a wrap?
Maybe some of the reinforcing ribs from an old school bus?
Just tossing out random thoughts.

Wondering if you could avoid wrapping the trailer itself, cannibalize the ribs from a few old school busses, chrome wrap them, and fasten to the car hauler sides fairly close together, giving the look of chrome sides with strips of your upper body color in between?
Maybe even just use flat stainless strips the same way?

HA, I had just had the thought of your above post, too!

300rag · Sep 12, 2023

amazinblue82 said:
... 22 feet seems plenty long to me .. I dont own any early 70's Imps so I am good,

This is what a 22' looks like with a 69 Monaco inside...

And a slab. That doesn't wag the back end even with the car in backwards...

LocuMob · Sep 12, 2023

300rag said:
This is what a 22' looks like with a 69 Monaco inside...

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And a slab. That doesn't wag the back end even with the car in backwards...

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I have no need for one, but that's a nice trailer!

300rag · Sep 12, 2023

LocuMob said:
I have no need for one, but that's a nice trailer!

Thanks. I had it built with access doors to fit a C-body wheelbase for the wheel straps...

Sorry for clogging up your thread Ray.

amazinblue82 · Nov 5, 2023

Man, I like these old Flxies (this is 1967 model). On FB, asking 35K. Not a buyer, but I dig it. It needs that much more, on top of any acquisition cost, to do what I would like to it ..

although, I wouldnt necessarily wanna completely "RV" it, eg. NO "bedroom", "Kitchen", "head", etc, but rather freshen seating, add AV/Digital hook ups, some Alcoa's. and stay at hotels.

Nah, but I like dreamin'.

azblackhemi · Nov 5, 2023

I worked on a lot of old Flxible transit busses when I worked for Phoenix Transit. They were well built cool old buses.

73Coupe · Nov 5, 2023

Looks like the furnishings were compliments of a trip to Levitz in in the 80s....

polara71 · Nov 5, 2023

73Coupe said:
Looks like the furnishings were compliments of a trip to Levitz in in the 80s....

Right, perfect!

amazinblue82 · Nov 5, 2023

73Coupe said:
Looks like the furnishings were compliments of a trip to Levitz in in the 80s....

polara71 said:
Right, perfect!

one of your fine chaps please enlighten an old man ... what did (does) a trip to Levitz in the 80s) mean?

:thumbsup:

polara71 · Nov 5, 2023

amazinblue82 said:
one of your fine chaps please enlighten an old man ... what did (does) a trip to Leivitz in the 80s) mean?

A quick Duck Duck go image search Ray...
These guys were the Raymour and Flanigan of the 60s 70s 80s 90s.

polara71 · Nov 5, 2023

I don't recall life before Levitz. It was hard to move on from them for furniture needs.

amazinblue82 · Nov 5, 2023

on the tangent ... my "uncle" was in the the furniture business where I grew up.

any michigander at least 50 had the same uncle :poke:

polara71 · Nov 5, 2023

amazinblue82 said:
on the tangent ... my "uncle" was in the the furniture business where I grew up.

any michigander at least 50 had the same uncle

Levitz had a similar set up. You'd walk through the Warehouse to get to the showroom. A no-no in today's litigious world. Those high reach platform lifts picking buyers furniture.

amazinblue82 · Nov 6, 2023

Baby Got Back.

1954 Flxie. She got a big ole' butt. I would NOT have one as as and RV, the more I think about it.

They are a little claustrophobic to me, which is why I keep looking (again, I aint a buyer, though that bus was on CL in 2016 and sold for $15K where as today is $35K -- I dont see where the add'l $20K went) at #485 above.

Anyway ... this one was $22K last year.. i am not nor would have been a buyer ... I just like this era Flxible. It was "RV'd" in the '70's. sports a Chevy 427 gas/Allison MT 40 combo, and entry door relocated amidships.

I like front doors BUT we are working on making sure on my stuff back windows pop out easily/ladders reach the ground in case of emergency.

source: This Flxible Visicoach Used To Be An Airport Bus, Now It's A Steal Of A Motorhome Deal - The Autopian

73Coupe · Nov 6, 2023

Although very dated, that's clean, groovy, and livable. Just needs a bead curtain and stained glass accent window for that 'new age' touch!

amazinblue82 · Dec 18, 2023

A member pointed this one out to me for sale on FB for $25K. NOT MINE of course.

aource: 1955 GMC scenic cruiser

Recall 1,001 PD 4501's were ever made, numbers vary but roughly 300 accounted for (e.g., 1. running, 2. located but not on the road, and/or 3. scrapped/wrecked), and of that about 175 reported as still on the road.

They keep turning up like 1-2 a year, but my bet is several hundred are GONE forever. No, mine isn't on the road yet. but I am getting there. It's registered in the 300 accounted for.

I am only going with three main "areas" (rooms) with very few walls (except for head/shower) for an "open" floor plan with lots of natural light from the original coach's design's abundant use of windows/roof skylights & such.

Lower seating (four, AV-equipped, captain's chairs)/entertainment deck in the snout, middle "lounge (couches)/eating" area up the stairs, NO kitchen but microwave/small fridge and a "media center' (for my retirement plans for the bus .. really cool btw if I can pull it off), and then sleeping area (with a fold-out "sofa-bed" in the rear section (no ceiling fan as my head already touches the ceiling back there).

I am keeping ALL the original windows, but will have to heavily tint them all to hide the couple bathroom partitions I have to install.

Four years into this project, including two, lost pandemic years, I am ~50% done but ~70% of $$ budget used.

Yeah, its gonna be over budget $$ .. not "nad bustin'"' over, but still that's why when I finally stop working one day soon, IT is going to work for me. See if it can keep me off SS for a while longer. :poke:

Anyway, this one is ok. Hope it does well.

300rag · Jan 14, 2024

Came across this today...

amazinblue82 · Jan 17, 2024

I came across this looking a C's on Faceplant. 1999 Prevost.

"Seller's Description

This is a garaged kept TWO owner coach, originally built by Clarion Coach, Detroit series 60 and Allison Automatic, 430,000 total coach miles, Factory HVAC, 5 Roof A/C's, 20KW generator, Front and rear staterooms, Center seating, Galley Area, Restroom, bus is in great shape. This coach was originally built as a 12 sleeper but converted to an executive coach, could be changed back."

I like it, price is good, etc. even at $125K (cant be duplicated a that price) and 430K miles, Its tricked out pretty good.

The interior layout a little beyond my pedestrian tastes, BUT what they did in the backroom (a sittling room that becomes master bedroom) is what I am planning.