Here's a cool historical video
 

Here's a cool historical video

Started by RJ, July 27, 2012, 09:13:07 PM

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RJ

Greyhound's one and only GX-1

Greyhound GX-1

FWIW & HTH. . .

;)
1992 Prevost XL Vantaré Conversion M1001907 8V92T/HT-755 (DDEC/ATEC)
2003 VW Jetta TDI Sportwagon "Towed"
Cheney WA (when home)

siberyd

Wow, that bus looks unique. I bet it would have been a blast to drive. Looks like it  backed  up with ease.  Do we know what happened with this unusual coach? Private owner or scrapped?

Siberyd
1957 PD 4104-2240 Lawn Art

fortyniner

Very classy! I guess 1st class was on the upper deck lol. Seems with all the airline hassels these days buses like the GX-1 could make a comeback assuming they are as nice looking as that old girl.

-TomP.
Tom Phillips
PD4106-453
PD4106-2864
87 Alfa Milano
93 Range Rover
87 190e-16 Mercedes
92 Jeep Comanche

bkelly1011

Guys -

Here are a couple of writeups.  I'm going to guess at Joe's question that the twin engines were 4-71s hydraulically coupled as the PD4501s first had.

Jon - articles note it was likely scrapped in the late '50s.

http://www.bluehoundsandredhounds.info/barscen.html#gx1
http://www.busmag.com/PDF/Greyh2.pdf

Take care,
Brad

Busnut wannabe.

bkelly1011

Oops, Joe's question was on the other board!  Sorry.
Busnut wannabe.

CrabbyMilton

Thamk You for posting that. Very interesting bus and it's too bad it never caught on. But the market is what it is. Perhaps it just wasn't time yet since the VAN-HOOL TD-925 is quite popular now. Just imagine the conversion possibilities with 2 decks. Watching that though it shows how spoiled we have become now with digital video cameras. Back then that was state of the art with color so some appreciation is lost I think.