This bus was produced during the tail end of the orthodox era when a conventional School Bus body would be built atop an OEM’s chassis & cowl.

In this case, this particular bus was built near the tail end of when Blue Bird would build their conventional body atop the International chassis & cowl, as GM was ceasing to produce their chassis & cowl at this time; Blue Bird was severing ties with General Motors, and the only convetional style bus that Blue Bird would produce from this point forward would be the Vision on their own chassis & cowl.

This Blue Bird conventional is on the International 3800 chassis & cowl with the DT466 diesel engine and the Allison 2000 transmission.

2003 BLUEBIRD/INTERNATIONAL SPECIAL NEEDS BUS – DOES NOT RUN – B207 – Peoria Unified School District #11 Surplus

Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1732322