Interesting MCI

[Busted Knuckle]

An 8 with the skyview & 9 cap on the front! Commonly done right over the top of the original step up cap of the 8! Only visible from inside , huh Frank? LOL!   BK 

[tekebird]

late MC-8 had the MC-9 roofline/cap as well as other MC-9 characteristics.

[RJ]

Ooops. . . I completely forgot about this thread!

Anyway, many of you were darned close. Besides the skyview windows and the lack of the "Z bar", notice, too, that this coach has an MC-9 front cap.  (And no, it is NOT an MC-9 cap put over the MC-8 roofline - it was built with the 9 cap initially.)

Anyway, it was originally built as a demonstrator coach in late 1977 as a 1978 model, and sent to MCI's west coast sales office (Hausman at the time). A company based in Anaheim, IIRC, called Co-Ordinators purchased it, and used it for sight-seeing around the Southern California area.  According to my contact, MCI built 80 coaches in 1978 with the skyview window option.

When Co-Ordinators went defunct, a large church in the San Diego area purchased three of their fleet, but they spent most of their time sitting.

From the church, two were purchased by a couple of guys in Burlingame (just S of San Francisco on the peninsula), this one sat while the other was converted.

Recently, one of the two partners passed away, and this coach was part of his estate, which went to his only relative, his sister.

The coach is actually in excellent shape, has an 8V71/HT-740 powertrain, obviously the skyview windows, and NO restroom.

The sister really doesn't know what to do with it, which means that if somebody made her a reasonable offer, she just might take it.

If anybody's interested, send me a message off-board and I'll pass on the owner's contact information.

Interesting coach, with an interesting history - and most likely, pretty darned corrosion free!!

FWIW & HTH. . .