Anyone Know This Bus???

jmbuti · January 23, 2017, 01:40:23 PM

All,

In my search for a bus I have come across another mystery. The bus in this picture is pretty damn nice looking. Has anyone seen it a rally or know the owner? It is possibly in Oregon. Yeah, I know-that's a big state.

Thx

luvrbus · January 23, 2017, 02:43:22 PM

Belongs to a friend of mine Mark (Boomer) Reener in Washington State and it's for sale best and nicest Eagle out there being one of a kind no corners cut on it

CrabbyMilton · January 23, 2017, 03:49:40 PM

Any vital specs on it? I'm not as up as I would like on EAGLE's.
That is one honey bunny of a coach.

luvrbus · January 23, 2017, 03:53:59 PM

Quote from: CrabbyMilton on January 23, 2017, 03:49:40 PM
Any vital specs on it? I'm not as up as I would like on EAGLE's.
That is one honey bunny of a coach.

Has your engine,the ISM Cummins with a B500 Allison and around 9 to 10 mpg not bad for a 45 foot bus,very well maintained lol if it ever sneezed Mark was on top of it

jmbuti · January 23, 2017, 06:37:03 PM

Thx for the responses. luvrbus you have a PM.

DoubleEagle · January 23, 2017, 07:37:45 PM

That is a beauty alright, either the Ramco mirrors are super polished or chromed. The red paint looks like a pearl type in that picture. Seems like it should have been in Bus Conversions Magazine at some point.

luvrbus · January 23, 2017, 07:40:28 PM

Has a Mike Wilson paint job fwiw

CrabbyMilton · January 24, 2017, 03:50:57 AM

Too bad that new EAGLE 25 never made it past the prototype stage. But the market just wasn't ready.
Would have made a nice seated version.

bigred · January 24, 2017, 06:32:53 AM

Is this the bus that BUSFORSALE had a few month's ago ?? Sure sounds like it right down to the Cummins engine .About the only difference I can see is the one they had for sale had those big wide wheel's on the front .Man that thing was sharp and at a reasonable price also!!!

daddysgirl · January 24, 2017, 06:58:01 AM

Quote from: luvrbus on January 23, 2017, 07:40:28 PM
Has a Mike Wilson paint job fwiw

By any chance... A North Carolina Mike Wilson? Who also happens to be a fantastic musician?

B_K · January 24, 2017, 07:52:28 AM

Quote from: bigred on January 24, 2017, 06:32:53 AM
Is this the bus that BUSFORSALE had a few month's ago ?? Sure sounds like it right down to the Cummins engine .About the only difference I can see is the one they had for sale had those big wide wheel's on the front .Man that thing was sharp and at a reasonable price also!!!

A very good possibility as "busforsale.com" is very well known for taking bus ads they find elsewhere putting them on their site and advertising them without the consent of the owner. Then if they get someone interested they either try to "broker" a deal between the owner and the perspective buyer.
Or they simply steer them away toward a bus they do have consent on, by merely telling the potential buyer the bus they were interested in has already sold.

Quote from: daddysgirl on January 24, 2017, 06:58:01 AM
By any chance... A North Carolina Mike Wilson? Who also happens to be a fantastic musician?

No the Mike Wilson Clifford refers to is a West coast painter that has always produced some very high quality paint jobs.

And as a side note Mark aka Boomer the owner of the Eagle in question on this thread is a member here on the board and posts from time to time and has several very sharp buses.

BK

Boomer · January 24, 2017, 09:28:20 AM

If you want the specs they are at: www.busesandmore.com

Geez Clifford, you could'a spelled my name right buddy, lol. We are going through your neighborhood the first week of March if you are going to be around, I'll call you. Visiting friends in Mohave valley and then to the Pahrump rally on the way home.

Jeremy · January 24, 2017, 01:50:01 PM

Here's a direct link to the details: http://www.busesandmore.com/inventory/eagle-rv/

I must say, for an "amateur" conversion the standard of finish and the level of workmanship in this bus is surely inspirational to the rest of us.

May I ask Boomer myself - I'd assumed looking at the photos that the interior woodwork (all that curved flush cherry cabinetry) was gloss-varnished veneer, but I see that the spec. describes it as 'laminate' - what type (brand / product) of laminate please? It's very good, whatever it is.

Also, the grey 'carpet' which is used to line the baggage bays and beneath the bed etc - is that actually carpet? There are aspects of the way it's been done which makes me think it must either be a thin cloth rather than carpet, or even some kind of spray-on flock material instead. Again, I'd be interested to know the product.

Thanks!

Jeremy

PS - I think you also have a much more vintage bus of some kind? I already have some photos of the interior of that saved into my 'bus ideas' folder on my computer!

B_K · January 24, 2017, 09:02:12 PM

Jeremy I don't know that I would call Mark's Eagle an amateur conversion!

And yes Mark also has this bus he lovingly built from the "ground up"!
http://koin.com/2014/12/24/1947-greyhound-restored-by-grandfathers-love/
http://www.paradisecoachinteriors.com/portfolio-item/silverside/

Pretty sure I wouldn't call that one an amateur job either! LOL!

BK

Jeremy · January 25, 2017, 02:20:02 AM

I deliberately said "amateur" rather than amateur as although I assume he technically did it as an amateur (ie. he wasn't being paid by someone else to do the work), quite clearly his work isn't remotely amateurish

Jeremy