This Ward/AmTran/IC Front Engine transit style School Bus is another example of the consolidation between chassis manufacturers and School Bus body manufacturers in the last 15-20 years.
In fact, IH/Navistar purchasing Ward/AmTran in 1991 kickstarted the consolidation in the School Bus manufacturing industry that would take off later in the decade.
Genesis International Bus – Graham Local Schools Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1453213
A photo of a mockup if the 1st generation Land Rover Discovery, when it was known internally within the Rover Group as Project Jay. This mockup was done and this photo was taken probably during the years 1985, 1986; and 1987.
Notice the 2 different design exercises for the front end.
Another promotional video from 1980 for GM Medium-Duty trucks.
In this prior post https://mparij.wordpress.com/2015/11/29/nascar-indy-car-and-formula-1-drivers-who-should-be-magically-transformed-from-being-fit-athletic-and-mesoporphic-to-being-fat-corpulent-and-overweight/ I talked about NASCAR, Indy Car; and Formula 1 drivers who should be transformed from being mesomorphic to corpulent.
Elliott Sadler’s muscles are just as unsightly as the muscles on this man from Germany in the videos below.
Only if I had magical powers, I could transform both of these men from being mesomorphic to corpulent.
We would all be able to breathe a sigh of relief once both of these men were transformed from being mesomorphic to corpulent
Not to mention that this man from Germany was playing icky, yucky Soccer/International Football. Once again, who gives a… about sports. And also, fitness.
The reason as to why this School Bus was decommissioned so early in it’s life and is being auctioned off this soon should give you an idea as to how flimsy the 3 remaining body builders (Blue Bird, Thomas; and Ward/AmTran/IC) and the handful of chassis builders now left building School Bus chassis (IH/Navistar, Freightliner; and Blue Bird’s own, proprietarily developed and built in-house chassis) have been building School Buses and their components since the early 2000’s.
Special Needs Bus #31 – Saginaw Intermediate School District Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1491490
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Seeing these Burger King commercial from the early 1990’s with the young actor, whose name I had recently found to be Dan Cortese; having long hair vexes me.
What equally vexes me is Matt Kenseth having had long hair like this during the early 1990’s when he was a semi-professional racer, according to this article from USA Today:
I would have been very tempted to hack off Matt Kenseth’s long hair had I encountered him and been in the right place at the right time, sometime in the early-mid 1990’s.
Then, what would be the sweet spot would be making the unknown Matt Kenseth ride on a School Bus, or in a Caprice wagon, a diesel Suburban; or in a Volkswagen.
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If Arthur’s mother were to transport Elliott Sadler & Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the A70 Supra, they would evidently be sitting in the backseat while Arthur would be in the front passenger seat, and Arthur’s mother would be driving.
Arthur’s mother would play a copy of Tina Turner’s album from 1984 ‘Private Dancer’ on an audio cassette on the AM/FM radio with a cassette player and a graphic equalizer in the A70 Supra; and Elliott Sadler & Dale Earnhardt Jr. would both be forced to listen to Tina Turner’s song from 1984 “What’s Love Got to Do with It” while they’re both being transported in the A70 Supra.
A photo of an A70 Supra like the one that Arthur’s parents own:
Arthur’s parents’ Z31 Z-Car is not a 2+2 model, as the 2+2 model was not available with the turbocharged VG30ET engine. Rather, Arthur’s parents’ Z31 Z-Car is a Shiro Special Edition that was produced in celebration of Nissan’s 50th anniversary and is a two-tone limited-production pearlescent white and gray. Shiro is actually the Japanese word for the color white. Arthur’s parents’ Shiro Special Edition Z31 Z-Car also has the VG30ET turbocharged engine.
Therefore, Arthur and his mother couldn’t transport Elliott Sadler & Dale Earnhardt Jr. in their Z31 Z-Car because it doesn’t have a backseat like how the 2+2 model does.
A photo of the Shiro Special Edition Z31 Z-Car like the one that Arthur’s parents’ own:
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This have been a custom, one-of-a-kind order for Wayne by whichever public school district had ordered it in 1962: a Wayne conventional style School Bus on a Mack Class 8 truck chassis & cowl:
First of all, motorcycles are strictly forbidden in the lives of the Read household or on anywhere of the property owned by Arthur and his parents in the Arthur movie for adults.
Video about Carl Edwards and Matt Kenseth’s love for motorcycles:
Arthur’s parents would tell Carl Edwards, Matt Kenseth, Jimmie Johnson; and Kasey Kahne who gives a… over motorcycles.
Arthur’s parents would also tell Casey Mears who gives a … over motorcycles.
The only inclusion of a motorcycles in the Arthur movie for adults is the eldest child, a teenaged male; of the other family that both of Arthur’s sisters are a part of in this movie has a motorcycle. The same family that’s also the subject of the funeral part in this movie and where Tony Stewart acts as the hearse driver. The parents of this other family buy their teenaged son a brand new Harley-Davison motorcycle. The parents of this household always force D.W to go with her alternate brother to places on this boy’s motorcycle. The teenaged son/D.W and Katherine’s alternate brother always listens to the area’s Top 40 formatted FM station on the motorcycle’s radio. The same FM station in the area that Francine, Buster, Fern, and Prunella all have an affinity for. D.W always gets irritated whenever her alternate brother takes her to professional sporting events on his motorcycle, as part of the parents in this household always forcing D.W to go with her alternate brother to nearly everywhere he goes. Luckily, for this boy; he is always cut off by School Buses whenever he rides his motorcycle.
The Ford B-Series School Bus chassis & cowl, International S-Series School Bus chassis & cowl; and the Heavy-Duty transit style School Bus chassis triumph in importance over any trivial motorcycle.
There’s nothing like the feeling of a Medium or Heavy-Duty truck (including a School Bus) cutting off a motorcycle.
Matthew Parij 