Here's a 1959 MC-1 for sale

[bevans6]

http://kelowna.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-RVs-campers-trailers-RVs-motorhomes-35-Antique-Bus-Conversion-RV-with-Skyview-Windows-W0QQAdIdZ267994979

1959 MCI MC-1, converted with a 4-71 and a spicer 5 speed...  claimed range is 2600 km on a tank, which is 1600 miles more or less, which may even be true!  Comes with a spare 5A...

More info - http://www.picturechasers.com/bus.php

Apparently 4 MC-1's were delivered to Western Canada Greyhound in 1959, and they bought Brewster in 1965.  Brewster was buying Courier 96's with the Skytop around the same time.  This one may not be a factory Skytop, which would make it very unique.  Info per Angelfire.

Brian

[happycamperbrat]

Oh wow a skyview! I just love the buses with built in, factory original star gazers! There is absolutely no way I could use one out here in the desert..... but they are sooooo neat looking 

[fe2_o3]

"Front door & trim have body damage from collision."
Always protect your right side...Cable

[chev49]

Would make a great looking restoration...

[Seayfam]

I think it would be pretty valuable restored. Does anyone know if the Greyhound museum has one of those.

[artvonne]

  So just how slow would it be with a 471, and how did they put a 5 speed in it if there isnt enough room in front of a 8v71 for more than a 4 speed? Is it a special trans, or is a MC1 different?

[lostagain]

I drove this bus in the early 70s when I was at Brewster's in Banff.

Yes, originally a Greyhound. Then Brewster's who, being owned by Greyhound, would get hand me downs and have the sky-views installed for their Grayline sightseeing business in the  Rockies.

I still have my 57 Courier 96, one of several at Brewster's at that time. Much better bus than the MC 1, 2, and 3s that succeeded the Courier. The 4-71 is a great engine, adequate for that time, but underpowered now. I turboed mine and it keeps up to traffic quite well. The 5 speed Spicer was standard on the 4-71 on the Couriers and the MC1s. I seem to remember that the MC2 may have had a 6-71. The MC3s had the 8V71? I am not sure... We just drove them, LOL. And that is a long time ago.

What I do remember is that those MC1, 2 and 3s (we didn't have any 4s), were flimsy, not solid like the Couriers and rattled quite a bit. The front of them ahead of the front wheels would sag so there would be a gap at the front door. I remember driving them to Winnipeg to get fixed.

The MC5s that followed were much better built and were a good bus again. Incidentally, the 5s were the first MCIs to be exported to the US in 1965, after the GMs fell out of favor for Greyhound in the US.

JC

[Seayfam]

Thanks for that little piece of history you have acquired over the years. That is SO cool to hear stories from members that have been around these buses in their prime. I take it you probably also have experience with the MC6?

Gary

[lostagain]

We never had 6s at Brewster's. Only Greyhound had them, as far as I know. I remember them very well. They were on the regular run on hwy 2 between Calgary and Edmonton. Also on the Trans Canada going East West. They were big and imposing, compared to anything we had at the time: 5s, 7s and 8s.

JC