Here's a decent looking 4104

[Len Silva]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o8hY_LUY-c
http://expressoriominas.fotopic.net/p37785989.html
http://expressoriominas.fotopic.net/p37785999.html
http://onibusemgeral.fotopages.com/?entry=1179718
http://www.railbuss.com.br/onibus/galeria/displayimage.php?album=31&pos=27
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAqhcLYGnHs&feature=related

[Airbag]

And now lets all sing along:

Where has all the anodize gone?
Long time polishing

Where has all the anodize gone?
Long time polishing

[gus]

That guy has way, way too much free time!!

[Singing Land Cruiser]

 :oWOW, Nice Sides. I'm next. M&C

[Len Silva]

I can't read Spanish but this bus is apparently owned by a large tour bus company in Sao Paulo which has a nice fleet of modern buses  http://www.turismosantarita.com.br/

I think it's mostly an advertising piece and a fine one at that.

[Rick59-4104]

 Since we have been talking 4104's lately I thought I would bring this old post to the top..WOW! I had no idea the aluminum on the 4104 would polish up like this...

I have in the past owned several vintage travel trailers from the late 1940's that I polished, a 1947 Westcraft, a 1947 Spartan and a 1957 Airstream. It is hard work but the results can be amazing. You have to like the look.
Rick

[artvonne]

  Wow is right. Can you use the word pretty, and Bus, in the same sentence? Thats a pretty Bus.

[Mex-Busnut]

I can't read Spanish but this bus is apparently owned by a large tour bus company in Sao Paulo which has a nice fleet of modern buses  http://www.turismosantarita.com.br/

I think it's mostly an advertising piece and a fine one at that.

Spanish? In Brazil, they speak Pork-&-Gueese...  er, Portuguese.

Dr. Steve, central old Mexico

[gus]

My 4104 will never look that good but I'm not ready for that commitment.

Polished Al is great if you have a lifetime devotion to polishing it. Once the clad or anodizing is polished off it must be polished continually.

It also leaves the Al exposed to very quick corrosion.

I once read about a guy who polished a Twin Beech like this and used to fly it early every morning it was parked outside to blow off the dew so it wouldn't spot!!

[Len Silva]

I can't read Spanish but this bus is apparently owned by a large tour bus company in Sao Paulo which has a nice fleet of modern buses  http://www.turismosantarita.com.br/

I think it's mostly an advertising piece and a fine one at that.

Spanish? In Brazil, they speak Pork-&-Gueese...  er, Portuguese.

Dr. Steve, central old Mexico

My grandfather must be turning over in his grave as they say.  My heritage is Portuguese, though I never learned to speak it beyond five years old and and never read it.  It's mostly gone now.

[Mex-Busnut]

So sorry, Len! No offense intended!

[artvonne]

  Dont know if I heard wrong, but heard from several sources the clad on the greyhounds was much heavier than the clad used on aircraft. It was meant to be polished.