Check out this house bus...

Scott & Heather · April 24, 2012, 06:11:15 PM

http://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/rvs/2958540374.html

Seen this bus in some tinyhouse articles. Now it's for sale.

Gerry4104 · April 24, 2012, 09:36:00 PM

Super cool !

chev49 · April 24, 2012, 11:06:58 PM

almost twice the fuel mileage as my last bus...

crown · April 25, 2012, 05:24:01 AM

nice but no bathroom or holding tanks john

Eric · April 25, 2012, 06:29:36 AM

I would seriously own that... Just saying

Geoff · April 25, 2012, 07:05:16 PM

Yawn. Its good for short distances, not for serious traveling/camping. There used to be a website (Housecars?) for these hippie conversions, I don't know if its still around.

Scott & Heather · April 25, 2012, 07:33:15 PM

Lol Geoff!

definitely not my kind of bus but stumbled on It on Craigslist

Iceni John · April 25, 2012, 11:15:54 PM

Quote from: Geoff on April 25, 2012, 07:05:16 PMThere used to be a website (Housecars?) for these hippie conversions, I don't know if its still around.

This one? http://nomadicista.org/viewforum.php?f=4&sid=e6eaa44258ab24de5fcbbbe2cdf2069a

Some of them have exquisite workmanship, in an old-world hand-crafted sense. Other housetrucks are as scary looking as the folk who live in them.

John

TomC · April 26, 2012, 08:41:39 AM

Those home made Hippy buses made out of old school buses-many RV parks will not allow them in. I was at Don Laughlin's Riverside RV park this last weekend and they specifically said no School Bus conversions. I personally would not be caught dead in such thing as that bus. Good Luck, TomC

Lin · April 26, 2012, 08:57:16 AM

Would make a great political campaign bus!

lorna · April 27, 2012, 12:52:09 PM

Quote from: TomC on April 26, 2012, 08:41:39 AM
Those home made Hippy buses made out of old school buses-many RV parks will not allow them in. I was at Don Laughlin's Riverside RV park this last weekend and they specifically said no School Bus conversions. I personally would not be caught dead in such thing as that bus. Good Luck, TomC

I am typing this while sitting in my 40 ft 1986 Blue Bird All American FE School Bus conversion (still under construction). I am currently in a campground (privately owned, commercial) in Roswell, NM and have been since December 2011. The last campground we were in (Socorro, NM) also did not have a problem with converted skoolies. There was one long terming when we left. I think it's still there.

Same campground, we just shifted into another site. Costs less and now we have shade in the afternoon. The other pic shows a weekly pull thru site. No monthly sites were available when we pulled in due to our size.

We scrapped the 1974 Eagle that we had back when I used to post here (old forum). I see some things have not changed. I can tell you this. the Blue Bird is much better built than the Eagle was. And much, much less rust. I do miss the Eagle's basement. But that is all.

BTW, there is a park here in Roswell that will not allow any of your coaches either! They specifically require an RVIA certification. Right there in the rules. So you would be just as unwelcome as we would. I wouldn't want to stay there anyway. The cow poop aroma is over whelming. Whereas our location isn't much worse (or better) than most of Roswell. Who would have thought that Roswell was a huge dairy area and home to the largest mozzarella factory in the world! BTW, Roswell is NOT what is portrayed as on TV either.

Lorna

Kwajdiver · April 27, 2012, 01:27:42 PM

I'd be more worried about low hanging trees, overpasses, train tracks, etc.
I can just picture leaving the top of the house in the middle of some road.

Bill

TomC · April 27, 2012, 07:41:15 PM

Lorna- that's a nice Blue Bird. I think most RV parks are referring to front engine type school buses. Good Luck, TomC

chev49 · April 27, 2012, 08:19:50 PM

i have put the rvia badge as well as the water, electrical, ect plates on my last 3 bus conversions...

lorna · April 27, 2012, 08:30:54 PM

Quote from: TomC on April 27, 2012, 07:41:15 PM
Lorna- that's a nice Blue Bird. I think most RV parks are referring to front engine type school buses. Good Luck, TomC

I think you are referring to a "dog-nosed" type skoolie. I have a front engine bus (that's what the "FE" stands for). And the current campground that I am in allows the dog nosed buses as well. So did the last campground. The private campground we stayed at in S GA also allowed skoolies in too. We haven't stayed in a whole lot of private campgrounds. No opportunity to until the last few years. And even then we stayed in the same State Park for 4 months without leaving.

What I am pointing out is that you may be a tad confused about the types of skoolie conversions. These bus shells are cheap (we paid $1400 for ours) and ranges from a metal tent to rather upscale conversions depending on the intended use. And the costs range pretty widely too. You might want to check out Jake von Slatt's Steampunk skoolie conversion just for giggles. It's a very interesting and beautiful conversion and probably more acceptable to a coach converters taste. (Interior shots) Pics of the redecorated bedroom

Imaginative guy. I rather like his DIY macerator that he built from an old garbage disposal. And there's the thing about the skoolie conversions. They seem to be more creative with materials than the coach converters. I'm not putting coach converters down but when you have a shell that costs under $4K or $5K, you aren't going to be spending big bucks on a lot of stuff. That leads to some very creative solutions. BTW, Jake's bus was built mostly from recycled junk.