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Title: Old Stevie Wonder Song and 6-71
Post by: TomC on July 07, 2015, 06:35:36 PM
I was listening to the Stevie Wonder album Innervisions and the song Living For The City. I remembered there was a bus leaving sound. I listened and thought it was a 6-71, but in a Crown school bus with manual transmission. Funny how things pop up from the past every so often.  Good Luck, TomC
Title: Re: Old Stevie Wonder Song and 6-71
Post by: Iceni John on July 07, 2015, 09:37:50 PM
Maybe more 6V71 or 6V53, perhaps?   If he's going to NYC in the 70s, perhaps he's in an MCI or Eagle or GM?   Here's my friend Al's 6-71 Crown with a 10-speed for comparison  -  he likes his engine sound so much he replaced the muffler with a piece of plain pipe:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuWMdYs-MxQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuWMdYs-MxQ)   And this is when we all went hooning into town during our Memorial Day get-together (we think Al's turbo isn't working so well, thus the smoke!):    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-1nMvB8aYw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-1nMvB8aYw)   (The first bus is a 1959 6L71 5-speed, the second is a 1957 with a tired Cummins 220, mine's the third, Al's is the fourth, someone familiar with this forum is in the MC9, and Moki is bringing up the rear with his Hewlett-Packard bus complete with a 370HP Big-Cam.)   Lots of good sounds, but none of them like in Living For the City (go to 4:15):   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8N_Zv_0llI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8N_Zv_0llI)   Who cares, it's all good!  

John