crown articulated, time for a paint job.... er, no paint job

[Ed Hackenbruch]

A lot of people use South Dakota as their domicile.

[Iceni John]

Most (but not all) Crowns have aluminum body panels, but some of them had steel roof panels.   If you see any rust stains bleeding out from joints between or under the body panels, you may have corrosion inside on the steel framing.   Crown did a good job of isolating the steel and aluminum to prevent electrolytic corrosion, but sooner or later some water will get inside the walls and begin to rust the body ribs there.   Do you have dry-wall or wet-wall construction?   ("Budget-buster" Crowns were sometimes made with steel bodies and wet-wall sides, and they will eventually rust.   There are even steel-bodied Crowns with dry-wall sides  -  my friend's 1983 tandem from Jurupa USD is built this way.   He also has an aluminum-bodied Gillig tandem!   Go figure.)   Crown's rear window frames were also steel, and known for rusting.   Otherwise they are pretty tough old buses, able to last a long time almost anywhere.

My Crown's body panels are about 0.065" thick (about 1/16"), so be careful if you blast, otherwise you may ripple them, or worse.

John