Arctic tundra bus.... I want one!

[OneLapper]

My aunt took this picture a few years ago.  My grandfather (who's 101 and still going strong) is the one being helped onto the bus. 

I would love one of these buses!  Just to own it.  Why not?

[CrabbyMilton]

That's strange that it doesn't look anything like TOYOTA's full sized pickup since you said the word tundra.
Seriously, it would be neat to have one and no worries about getting stuck in the snow anyway. That's wonderful that your grandpa is in great shape at age 101. Now you have me wondering about the specs on that thing.

[Boomer]

Brewster's on the Columbia Ice Field.

[niles500]

Yes that appears to be Athabasca glacier 

[lostagain]

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In the early '70s when I started driving for Brewster's, we of course took tours to the "Ice" quite frequently, and all the snowmobiles were the Bombardier ones like the yellow one in the top picture. I forget what they were called. Then about the mid seventies, Brewster's took several of the MCI Courier 96s to Foremost in Calgary who put them on tracks, (second picture). In the late seventies, they started having them built with rubber tires, IIRC still by Foremost, a manufacturer of tracked vehicles for the oil fields. I know a guy near Lumby, BC, who has one of the old Courier 96s on tracks in his yard. I should see if he'll take an offer for it...

JC

[OneLapper]

That tracked MCI looks a little on the top heavy side, doesn't it?  lol! 

How cool are these things?  That old one you mentioned, it would be great to see something like that up and running again.