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Title: No talk on the 3751, so here's a Mystery Bus for Ya All!!!
Post by: GM0406 on April 19, 2008, 07:25:11 PM
We saw this today and still don't know what to make of it?  The windshield is not recessed in which tells me from my aging experience that she must be an old one.  I think all the later GM City Buses had windshields recessed.  So have at it here and tell us what this is.  I will try and contact the owner this week and confirm back here what I learn.  A real nice little coach.  Bill T.
Title: Re: No talk on the 3751, so here's a Mystery Bus for Ya All!!!
Post by: tekebird on April 19, 2008, 08:28:06 PM
straight windshield should be prewar or just postwar.

give me a day or so and I will come up with the model
Title: Re: No talk on the 3751, so here's a Mystery Bus for Ya All!!!
Post by: GM0406 on April 21, 2008, 07:28:53 AM
Tekebird,  I was hoping you would make a guess on this one before I go and talk to the owner???  Bill T.
Title: Re: No talk on the 3751, so here's a Mystery Bus for Ya All!!!
Post by: tekebird on April 21, 2008, 07:33:01 AM
yeah, well without doing some research, I don;t have a guess.

I'm not a huge transit knowledge base...and the bus cetratinly well predates me and would not have even been in service when I was a Embryo.

1940's trasit of some sort, GM of course.

Trouble is with the transits, any change they made  ended up being a new model number, in addition to the different lengths which were also done by model number
Title: Re: No talk on the 3751, so here's a Mystery Bus for Ya All!!!
Post by: tekebird on April 21, 2008, 07:41:08 AM
OK, I'm not going to guess model number.....and there is a good chance the owner does not even know.

but I will give a not to exceed date of 1945

post 1945 all the GM transits had sloped windshields
Title: Re: No talk on the 3751, so here's a Mystery Bus for Ya All!!!
Post by: Charles Seaton on April 21, 2008, 09:09:18 AM
Gotta go with Tekebird on this,


A shorty old look possible 32?? (32 passenger).  The rear end is interesting as the engine door appears to be in one piece.  All of the old looks I have seen (except for toro-flos) had two piece engine doors. 
Title: Re: No talk on the 3751, so here's a Mystery Bus for Ya All!!!
Post by: Dallas on April 21, 2008, 09:23:37 AM
Looks to me like a 320X or a 36XX. The windshields look to me like they have been modified to have a flat face. I would guess that the engine compartment door has been modified also, since the center support wasn't structural.

My guess is somewhere in the 1946-1950 era. I doubt it is a prewar model, that would have brought it closer to the Yellow Coach model. This looks to me like it's an all GM model with owner modifications.

Of course, I've been wrong a lot before!

Dallas
Title: Re: No talk on the 3751, so here's a Mystery Bus for Ya All!!!
Post by: Charles Seaton on April 21, 2008, 11:25:31 AM
Dallas,

Thought about the possibility of windshield modification also. Funny that it would be modified back to original design of initial old looks.
Title: Re: No talk on the 3751, so here's a Mystery Bus for Ya All!!!
Post by: Jeremy on April 21, 2008, 01:56:33 PM
I reckon it's a Fisher Price Mk1. If you were to design a cute, baby-faced bus for a cartoon or a child's toy, this would be it.

Jeremy
Title: Re: No talk on the 3751, so here's a Mystery Bus for Ya All!!!
Post by: PADoug on April 21, 2008, 03:02:19 PM
Thought maybe it was a 48 Brill...
Title: Re: No talk on the 3751, so here's a Mystery Bus for Ya All!!!
Post by: tekebird on April 21, 2008, 04:55:40 PM
Definitley not a Brill
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