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Custom Bus Bodies: How They Got to School Back Then

Posted June 05, 2013 8:00 AM by dstrohl

An oft-overlooked branch of coachbuilding includes all those firms that built utility bodies on truck chassis, necessary because the truck and auto manufacturers rarely offered such specialty bodies as school buses. For SIA #148, July 1995, Richard Kelley rounded up a variety of school bus body styles on various chassis. So who bodied the bus that took you to school as a young'un?

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06/06/2013 7:49 AM

Well, there goes Gramma's walking 5 miles in the Snow, Uphill both ways story!

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06/06/2013 8:07 AM

I did it, even after they made the buses yellow! Only 1 mile, uphill each way, in snow, rain. sleet, fog, freezing temperatures, high humidity and heat, and with a bag full of textbooks, too!

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06/06/2013 9:25 AM

Pansy. I had to pick rocks, too.

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06/06/2013 2:58 PM

Bah. I was so poor I had to just imagine I was going to school and walked two miles every day to nowhere and back carrying slabs of wood I pretended were books.

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