History of 1956 Beck Bus at Bus museum.
I recently spoke with Dick Lamb of Custom Land Yachts in Windham, Maine who owned this Bus for about 29 years.
1956 Sold to Maine Line-Brunswick Transportation. They were a Beck dealer at the time.
1974 Dick and Nancy Lamb bought it in Lewiston, Maine from a band as it had a blown motor. Rebuilt motor, converted it, drove to Calif. and Arizona.
1975 Installed new L10.
2004 Sold to John Ferget from Vt. or N.H. ?
2005 Couple from Calif. bought it and had an automatic installed in Texas.
2006 Back in Salem, Mass. at Spike Michaud's with broken windshield, front and side panel damage.
2006 Back to Dick Lamb's for repair in Maine.
2018 Contact Dick Lamb for more info. 1-207-233-6464
He has a windshield, manuals, other parts, etc. Also a complete history of the bus.
Hopefully, I got the details correct!
1974 rebuilt motor...1975 installed new L10. Bad rebuild? What engine?
Call Dick Lamb if you want more info. He is not on the board and I have no clue.
The current owner was at the Hibbing Rally.
He had a lot of the History however it differs quite a bit from the above ( just sayin )
One of the differences is Michauds sold that bus 3 times as they sold it originally, it was traded in by Brunswick, and sold to Dick Lamb, who traded it in again at Michuads.
Not sure if the new owner Ron who has at it for 12 years is on any of the boards.
It is a beautiful bus finished very well.
No insults intended just repeating what I heard from new owner :)
Dick and Nancy Lamb gave me the information on the bus 3 days ago so I thought there would be Bus nuts interested so I posted it. I assume they would know the history since they converted it, installed the engine, and owned it for 29 years. (Just saying)
L10 wasnt built until the 80's. might have been installed in 1985, not 75.
Beck Bus update correction:
Just spoke to Dick Lamb about the Beck.
1. Gary, you are correct about the L10 installed date of 1985. The rebuilt he did was the under powered Cummings that was in it from the factory. Also he redid the rear end at the same time as the new Cummings.
2. All the other dates and time frame seem to be as previously written.
If anyone knows the present owner, have him contact Dick as he recently found all the old paperwork and original manuals that may interest him. (Also some parts.??) Dick heads to Yuma soon for 6-8 months.
Dick Lamb Windham, Maine 1-207-233-6464
Thanks for the reminder, I'm uploading the short video I shot of the bus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPlT5IuITBQ
No fluff, right to the point on it.