I saw four or five buses on the side of interstate 44 near Sarcoxie MO. Mile marker 31 south side of the interstate. I will be passing it again on Friday. Is there any business there or is it abandoned? Might be worth a stop.
I pulled it up on GOOGLE MAPS and yes, there are a few buses there. I see 3 EAGLES and a MCI MC7 right out front and I think another MCI but it's not easy to tell.
The buses have been there awhile the business has changed owners several times in the last 10 years since Wayne sold it I don't think the place is open any longer
I was there back in the late nineties getting parts. It looks like the main garage is not active, they had a full length pit on the East side that was handy. Looking at the satellite picture, it appears like there are about a dozen buses or RV's scattered around, mostly on the residence side of the area. Back then, all of the buses were outside the main three bay garage. It could very well be that the current owner of the house has all of the buses. It sure would not hurt to stop and inquire. There were a lot of parts in the upstairs of the garage as well.
As long as the dogs and the guy with the banjo doesn't come after you :)
Quote from: DoubleEagle on February 27, 2020, 08:38:35 AM
I was there back in the late nineties getting parts. It looks like the main garage is not active, they had a full length pit on the East side that was handy. Looking at the satellite picture, it appears like there are about a dozen buses or RV's scattered around, mostly on the residence side of the area. Back then, all of the buses were outside the main three bay garage. It could very well be that the current owner of the house has all of the buses. It sure would not hurt to stop and inquire. There were a lot of parts in the upstairs of the garage as well.
Back in the 90's preacher Wayne own it and was converting plus buying and selling Eagle buses
Quote from: luvrbus on February 27, 2020, 09:39:38 AM
Back in the 90's preacher Wayne own it and was converting plus buying and selling Eagle buses
That was who I dealt with. I remember him saying "It's like as new" a lot. He gave me a gold plated Eagle tie tac that he got from Brownsville when they were closing things out. He had a Mexican Eagle there that had sleeping quarters in the first baggage bay for the relief driver, and a solid door and wall to separate the passengers from the driver, but that was 24 years ago.
When I was there about the same time he had Mexican Greyhound Eagles for sale 45 ft with manual transmissions and 8v92's .At the time he had a pretty decent mechanic from Trailways working there I had him change my rear gear over to a 3:36 lol but I did not like the 16 penny nails he was going to use for cotter pins
The old mechanics used to use nails allatime. Soft enough they don't break when you bend them. ;D
Jim
I stopped by there today and everything was locked up. No trespassing signs everywhere. There were about six or seven Eagles there. A couple of MCI's. Everything had for sale on it. No phone number anywhere. There was one eagle bus conversion there. Had a few parts missing off of it. Had one Houston metro 10 bus there. I wish I could have found a phone number.
Current property owner lives in CA. I may have his contact info, as he had a Scenicruiser (still there I presume) on eBay several months ago. I'll take a look this weekend.
The web site was up till a few weeks ago it had a number list as 417-548-2424
Quote from: David Anderson on February 28, 2020, 05:24:08 PM
I stopped by there today and everything was locked up. No trespassing signs everywhere. There were about six or seven Eagles there. A couple of MCI's. Everything had for sale on it. No phone number anywhere. There was one eagle bus conversion there. Had a few parts missing off of it. Had one Houston metro 10 bus there. I wish I could have found a phone number.
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David you can Bryon Pigg he stays in touch with the preacher or did Wayne can tell you what's going there he lives up the road from it he was the x owner and may still own the property
Property owner as of Feb 2019 was a guy who bought the property on a tax lien sale. He lives in CA.
A retired Williams Petroleum employee from Tulsa bought the business from Wayne I heard Wayne carried the paper on the property I guess not if the property sold for taxes that had be 5 years or more of back taxes In MO
Probably getting any titles would be nonexistent. They would have to hauled out on a lowboys as a doner bus.
It depends on State rules, sometimes a bill of sale will get you a title. I got an old Land Rover with a handwritten bill of sale in New Hampshire converted to a title in Ohio many years later. There had to be titles for those buses at some point if they were part of the business. They might not have been part of the tax sale.
The property owner (as of last year) explained that he bought the property and all the buses in the sale. He had the Scenicruiser listed on ebay. That is how I began communicating with him. He claimed he could obtain a Missouri title. I'm not sure but I think Missouri may be a non-title required state (for vehicles of a certain age).
If that is the same Scenicruiser that was there in 1996 or 1997, I went all through it and took pictures (not sure where they are now). It was in semi-rough shape, but it had seats and all the glass. I remember sitting in it in my favorite seat (first passenger side seat on the upper deck), and picturing it going down the road.
Walter, I believe at one time there were two cruisers there. I have both serial numbers in my list. The remaining one has been there a long time. I have photos of it as well. It's pretty rough.