A Mercedes-Benz W114 in pristine condition parked somewhere in Southfield, Michigan:
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Contrary to what this ad says, the body is not a Ward/Amtran, it is a Thomas.
Once IH/Navistar had purchased Ward/AmTran and GM having signed an exclusive agreement with Blue Bird to be the sole provider for conventional style chassis & cowls, a Ward/AmTran conventional style School Bus on the Ford B-Series chassis & cowl became very rare.
This Ford B-Series was produced when Ford stopped offering the Brazilian-built New Holland diesel engines, and only began to offer the Cummins B & C-platform engines as the only diesel engines available, alongside the 370 and 427 V8 gasoline engines.
Personally, I prefer the Brazilian-built New Holland diesel engines and the 370 and 427 V8 gasoline engines.
I don’t care for the seat cover that the school district has installed on the driver’s seat.
1995 FORD Thomas (B244) – Livingston Parish Public Schools Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1594761
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A Thomas conventional style School Bus from the same model year as the Blue Bird conventional on the same chassis & cowl that I had posted about in this earlier post.
https://mparij.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/public-surplus-auction-1582005/
The body produced by Thomas was also produced around the same time the Blue Bird body on the International 3800 chassis & cowl that’s the subject of the earlier post was produced.
School Bus #64 – St. Johns County School District Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1578853
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A Blue Bird conventional style School Bus on the International 3800 chassis & cowl with the DT466 diesel engine.
The body was built during the time when Blue Bird’s quality, fit, and finish was just beginning to go downhill.
2001 Bluebird Type C School Bus – Highland Park ISD (TX) Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1582005
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More Mercedes-Benz material that’s pertinent to the production of the Arthur movie for adults.
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Though I don’t have any interest in the Freightliner chassis & cowl, this post is about a rare Blue Bird conventional style School Bus on the Freightliner FS-65 chassis & cowl.
2000 Bluebird School Bus (16-1309 Puy SD) JF (At Agency Location) – State of Washington Surplus Operations Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1593870
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School Bus photos from the 1940’s, 1950’s, and 1960’s.
Bodies are built by Blue Bird, Thomas, Carpenter, Wayne, Superior; and the Hackney Brothers.
Chassis are built by GM, Ford, Chrysler (Dodge), International Harvester/Navistar International; and Diamond REO.
Fuel tanker trucks owned by the Iredell County School District in North Carolina. These Medium-Duty trucks are what the GM and Ford chassis & cowls of the time were based off of. Even at this time, Ford had called their School Bus chassis & cowl a ‘B-Series’.
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A rare AMC Eagle 2-door coupe located in the Pittsburgh suburb of Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania.
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I commend Thomas Built Buses for sponsoring a car in NASCAR.
In this case, they are sponsoring Brad Keselowski driving the #2 car prepared by Penske Racing.
http://www.schoolbusfleet.com/news/711883/thomas-built-buses-sponsors-nascar-driver-in-toyota-race
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A place of great importance and of great interest to David, Jane, and Arthur Read-the Nissan Heritage Center; which the Reads visit during one of their many visits to Japan in the Arthur movie for adults.
The Nissan Heritage Center is also of great importance and of great interest to Ed, Millicent, and Mary Alice “Muffy” Crosswire. Ed himself is a dealer that sells Nissans, Toyotas, and Subarus under one roof at the same location in the United States.
The Crosswires visit the Nissan Heritage Center many times during their visits to Japan in the Arthur movie for adults.
A video of Jay Leno, one of many people who have a starring role in the Arthur movie for adults; visiting the Nissan Heritage Center.
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Somebody owns an V45W Mitsubishi Pajero/Montero in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood” because it has the versatility and people carrying ability of a minivan, because they like Mitsubishi Motors’ proprietary technology such as Select Shift 4-wheel-drive, because they like the vehicle having the same V6 engine as a Chrysler minivan and because of that-being assured that it will get them from Point A to Point B as well as a Chrysler minivan would; because they like the lettering and graphics on the instrument cluster, transmission shifter, and transfer case shifter being typical of a Mitsubishi truck; and because they like the characteristics atypical of Mitsubishi Fuso engineering.
The people that own this vehicle never consider the engineers in Japan assigned to work on the V45W project, and the amount of hours Mitsubishi Fuso had spent developing and testing the V45W project before it had gone into production in 1991.
These seem to be very popular in Australia, and I don’t know why.
Link to a webpage on the Mitsubishi Motors Global website about the V45W Pajero/Montero:
http://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/en/showroom/pajero/museum/top/index.html#his_2ndx
PBS television program MotorWeek’s review on the V45W Montero from 1992:
This vehicle still isn’t my cup of tea, but they did build these with the center-band two-tone paint job that I like for the Japanese Domestic Market.
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Television commercial for WNIC-FM from 1977.
A commercial very similar to this one is what NPVT-FM runs on the television station around the same time period in the Arthur movie for adults, trying to increase the listenerrship in the Elmwood City area.
Matthew Parij 