It's cold outside and all I have is this trivia bus pic.......

[zubzub]

So who made this bus?

[Hi yo silver]

Is that a Southern Coach?  Is there a prize if I get it right? 
Dennis

[zubzub]

Are you just being mean?  There's nothing southern about this coach....it's -15C today.

[Airbag]

Shot in the dark. Is it a flxible?

[Sam 4106]

Hi Zubzub,
I'm going to guess Dodge. In the 50s, my dad had a Dodge step van with a similar looking front end. My dad also started his school bus business in 1940 with a 1937 Dodge bus, but it had a conventional front end.
This is a fun topic for a cold last day of Feb.
Thanks, Sam 4106
PS, you do know the answer don't you?

[PP]

Isn't that one of BK's new fleet?   

Actual guess would be Flxble. But that front looks like an Int'l bread van. BTW-what is the grand prize and will there be booby prizes for runner's up?

[zubzub]

The prize is the usual, you get to come up to montreal, live aboard my bus in a bus yard and help me with all the repairs (at night when I'm gone you can roam the yard checking out old transits, gms and mcis....  I can't provide $ for food or transportation, but I have all the old grease and oil on hand to keep you skin smooth and supple.
I know what the badge on the front of the bus says, but it may have been rebadged.  Next time I'm up there I'll check the i.d. plate.

[RickB]

I am pretty sure that's a Dodge...

[Runcutter]

Airbag & PP are winners --  it is a Flxible.  Specifically, a Flexette. 

Some properties bought them as minibuses, and, if I remember, there were a bunch running around Atlantic City as jitneys.  They didn't have a good reputation for durability, but remember they were also very lightweight buses (spelled c..h...e...a...p).  I don't remember what they had for engines, but the configuration is much like some Superior transits (very badly named) that I ran in Ohio 20 years ago.  The drivers took a beating sitting next to that engine all day.   

I'm already spending a couple of weeks working with the transit system in Gary, Indiana, where the temperature is in the low 20's before the chill factor --- so Montreal weather wouldn't be that much more of a prize (punishment).  Thus, I'm glad others were first with the right answer.

Arthur

[Ed Hackenbruch]

So what kind of MCIs are in that yard? Any 5s?   I am looking for an original steering wheel and the spring loaded tube type bay door struts,

[zubzub]

OK so here's the problem...I didn't check inside the bus, so I guess I really don't know who made it.  As you can see it's badged as a Prevost, it may actually be one of their first efforts, or maybe it is just badged.  I'll have to ask Malcolm as well, he owns the yard and seems to keep mostly buses of interest. 
Re Ed's request.. it's kind of more of a bus yard than scrap yard,  'though there is a buffalo that will be scrapped out.  I also don't know one MCI from another, but I'll ask M about the door stuff and wheel stuff.

[Ed Hackenbruch]

Thanks, i will be waiting to see what you find out.

[Runcutter]

I'm not up on Prevosts, so I may have been wrong about the Flexette, but it sure looks like a Flexette according to my memory.  Now, what did I have for dinner last night, and what city am in in this week?  It looks like my trick for selecting rental cars (always get one with a licence plate from a distant state) is becoming more and more important.   

I'll be interested to learn which it is. 

Arthur

[TomC]

It looks to me to have a GMC or Chevrolet motorhome chassis on it.  GMC had that unmistakable axle arrangement of 10 wheel bolts in the rear and 5 wheel bolts in the front.  Also, they had the rear axle hub that is a cover only with the drive inner shaft inside-instead of the drive inner shaft being bolted to the outside of the hub like everyone else uses.  Good Luck, TomC

[buswarrior]

Somebody is fooling around.

That Prevost badge is far younger than the "vehicle" that it is attached to.

Let the game continue!!!

happy coaching!
buswarrior