Foreward:

I am one who has always wanted to be obstinate and reactionary, to never go with the flow of life, accept life as it is, accept and adhere to social norms, I am autistic and proud of it, and “baggage” that comes with being autistic, what baggage? Furthermore, I’ve always wanted to also be recalcitrant, I won’t ever comprehend what is life and what isn’t; and I also won’t ever comprehend that life is tough. Last, I won’t ever adhere to the term “you can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family”.

The bottom line is, I am an old soul who is antediluvian, headstrong, and averse; not thankful for having and receptive to some relatives that I have, will only allow a very select group of people to be in my social circle, and I won’t ever accept the fact that of these relatives that I do not like at all; will be the only family members who will be around once both of my parents are deceased.

I do not like my mother’s family at all; I never have wanted and will never want to be around them; I’ve always thought of them as Joe Averages that my parents have forced me to visit and mingle with, I’ve also thought of them as illegitimate family members, and I have always felt entitled to abrogate and rescind my own, personal associations with them. For instance-if my mother’s parents, the children of both of my mother’s brothers, my mother’s youngest brother, my mother’s eldest brother’s sister-in-law’s children; and my mother’s aunt and cousin were each hurt emotionally over my absence, my parents should be saying “too bad, so sad. We have to respect Matt’s wishes”. By now, you may figure that I choose to be an intractable and obdurate person with regards to this scenario.

My sister’s husband is also a relative that I don’t like, another family member that is illegitimate and another Joe Average that my parents have forced me to associate with, and I don’t care if my sister’s husband ever get hurt emotionally over my absence.

Because of how much of a social person Chris is in contrast to my parents and myself, Chris, Darlene, Carletta and her mother Bernice would associate with my mother’s family and never us because Chris would get along with my mother’s family better than my parents themselves ever had, and why they are Chris, Darlene, Carletta, and Bernice’s cup of tea more than they were ever mine and my parents’ cup of tea.

My father’s family consists of family members that I have always felt are treasured, legitimate family members who deserve to be venerated; have always felt being as comfortable around as both of my parents and Dennis, and have always felt that they know me nearly as well as both of my parents and Dennis.

Shari Lewis, Marc Brown; and Rick Steves are just a few more people that I will name as people that I feel comfortable around and know me very well.

Any time my parents talk about rekindling their associations with my mother’s entire family, it puts me into a tetchy position.

My father should be thinking all along, and saying to people that My father really should be saying my parents are not only being the people who know me best, and the people that I feel the utmost comfortable being around; but also my paternal grandmother, Mimi, Mary Ann and her 5 children, Uncle Joe, Margaret, Ann, Shari Lewis, and Marc Brown being the people who know me very well, and people who I also feel the utmost comfortable being around.

More people that I never have and never will have any tolerance for, and will not ever get along with are Ann Kolinski, Carolyn Armbruster, Carolyn Ann Tuzzo, Julie Stanaway, Carolyn Armbruster, Terri Dworkin, Amy Bunch, Mary Ellen Green, Carol Woodyard, Celia Socha, Julie Dean, Darlene Zimmerman, Steve Gerling; and Gilka Calazans-Paxton-all of whom were antipathetic towards me, and many of whom expected me to be independent and to take care of myself-and we’re talking independent and them being ecstatic enough for me to move out of the house right after I had graduated from High School. These people were also offended over the fact that I viewed them more a friend figure and not as a combination professional colleague/authority figure who were there for a reason none other than to do a job. Without a doubt were these teachers angry, and had vented their anger towards me whenever my parents had defended me against them. After reading this sentence, you may have guessed that I’ve chose to be mulish around these people.

Furthermore, Kim “Froggie” Proch, Pam Mott, Penny Orban, Sherry Misiak, Mary Behr; and Anne Waldowski were the School Bus drivers employed by the Warren Consolidated Schools school district were also antipathetic towards me, didn’t like me having a relationship with their boss John Roeck, were nonunderstanding of how emotionally important School Buses always have been and always will be to me; and they were also offended over the fact that I viewed them more a friend figure and not as a professional colleague who was there for a reason none other than to do a job; and that I certainly didn’t view the School Bus as a machine that is there to do a job. For your information, I am not the only person on the planet who has a desire to own or already owns a School Bus as a personal vehicle.

My parents should eternally be in this illusory and sphere where had to have Station Wagons, Suburbans, and Volkswagens/Audis, when we had considered buying the home in Romeo, Michigan that was built by the Fritz builders, and at other times-had also considered buying an old, small house in the Bungalow on the corner of a main road and a residential road in Sterling Heights, Michigan as an investment property; and my parents having decided not to purchase a farm near St. Clair City, Michigan (although the farmhouse was a gut job that was in dire need of a renovation).

And in keeping of this mentality-we really were supposed to move into with my paternal grandmother a 4,500 square feet with 4-5 bedrooms and 2 Full Bathrooms, 4 Quarter Bathrooms; and 2 Half Bathrooms on enough property where you would need a Bobcat with a mower and a snowblower attachment, a Sub-Compact Tractor (like an International Harvester Cub, a related Cub Cadet by IH Cub Lo-Boy, Kubota BX-Series, or a John Deere 1025); or a Compact Tractor (such as an International Harvester 140, International Harvester 274, Ford 1000, Kubota B-Series or L-Series; or a John Deere 2038, 3046, 4066, 5075; and 6135, my parents were have supposed to get reacquainted with all 5 of the Gilligan children earlier and if my mother had met them at an earlier time, my parents were supposed to have met Shannon’s husband Ray at an earlier time, my parents should have been closer to Margaret and Ann since an earlier time; Shannon and Ray would have supposed to introduce me to Marc Brown, Shari Lewis, her daughter Mallory, and her sister-in-law Judith Krantz. I really do think that my paternal grandmother could have met Rick Steves as a young adult, over time-they would have befriended each other and my paternal grandmother would love him as if he were her own son; my father would have met him some time ago as a friend of his mother’s, my paternal grandmother would have invited Rick Steves to travel from his hometown of Seattle, Washington to visit our house; my parents would have discovered how much we have in common amongst each other, and Rick’s nuclear family is literally a contemporary to our family.

An example of what would be normally going on in this house would be the following that is transcribed further: And while Chris would be associating with these people, my paternal grandmother working on her ceramic pieces, her dolls, and on her paintings in the craft room within our house; yours truly watching a 1980’s or early 1990’s CRT television tuned to WJBK-TV as a CBS affiliate and under the ownership of Storer Broadcasting, while it would be in the mid to high 30’s on this day in November, 1992 and the furnace switched on with the temperature set to 71 degrees Fahrenheit in the large house on a large amount of property that we and my paternal grandmother are living in together while watching a CBS News program showing footage of Elizabeth II stating to the that the year 1992 was an Annus horribilis (Latin term for horrible year) for her due to the separations and divorces of 3 of her children.

We’re talking the affairs with other people that both Charles and Diana were having, the phone calls that these other people that both Charles and Diana were affairious with that were recorded and eavesdropped by two different British newspapers and had published transcripts of these scandalous phone calls in their respective newspapers; Windsor Castle having caught fire due to a curtain having become attached to a spotlight, the African nation of Mauritius having become a Republic within the Commonwealth and by this time-was no longer a British Crown Dependency; and the tell-all biography book about Diana written by author Andrew Morton that had depicted what really goes on in the British monarchy, how unhappy Diana had always been over having to follow Royal protocol, how unhappy Diana had always been at the way Charles had been treating her; and how unhappy Diana had always been at the things that Charles had made her do that had made her uncomfortable, and this book having put out an ugly image towards the British monarchy, much to the dismay of Elizabeth II, Prince Phillip, Charles; Andrew regarding his ill-fated marriage with Sarah Ferguson, and also Princess Anne regarding her ill-fated marriage with her husband. The tell-all biography authored by Andrew Morton had reached the best-sellers list and had caused Morton to cry all the way to the bank.

My parents and I would also watch on our 1980’s or early 1990’s CRT television built into a wooden cabinet CBS’s coverage of NASCAR called by Vermont native Ken Squier on WJBK-TV as a CBS affiliate and under the ownership of Storer Broadcasting; and we would also watch WXYZ-TV whilst continuing to be owned and operated outright by ABC alongside WABC-TV in New York, KABC-TV in Los Angeles, KGO-TV in San Francisco, and WLS-TV in Chicago.

Payphones and brick style cellular phones continue to exist, computers remaining mostly a hobby and not an important factor to society, electronic devices as a whole still not being an important factor in day to day life.

Mallory was never supposed to perceive me as just another youngling who liked her mother Shari Lewis. Mallory was not only supposed to comprehend that her mother was, and still is one of the people that feel the utmost comfortable being around and people who know me pretty well, but she was also supposed to acknowledge Shannon and Ray’s association with both her mother and her aunt/well-regarded novelist Judith Krantz; and she was supposed to acknowledge that her mother and my paternal grandmother are both kindred spirits, they both share each other’s interest in craft and doll making, and pottery; myself showing her mother, all of the tricks that I’ve learned from her ,and my paternal grandmother, in turn-showing her the things she used to have her students at the City Parks and Recreation Department make; and last-both her mother and my paternal grandmother wearing graphical clothes during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.

Like how Ann should never assume that I am just this distant cousin of hers, perceive it to be odd that this distant cousin of hers who is many, many years her junior to want to make contact with her; and perceive it to be anomalous that I am the old soul that I am, have as extensive knowledge of things were back in the day know that I actually do, have as extensive knowledge of the family as I actually do, and care about her parents Joe and Martha as much as I actually do.

Furthermore, Ann should never be allowed to say something along the line that all of the modern NASCAR drivers that have been present since 2001 all of whom have been the driving force towards the modernization and evolution of NASCAR, are closer in age to all of the younglings who are present and future potential fans of NASCAR, and are just like these potential fans where they are really conventional athletes who have been involved in sports all of their lives and not so much Race Car Drivers, as becoming a Race Car Driver was the only other thing that they had trained for their entire lives besides becoming a conventional athlete, otherwise-they would have to train for an entirely new and different line of work because they didn’t make the cut with regards to a specific sport. And these modern drivers like modern, weird music just like the young potential fans; and these modern drivers, like any other young person-are willing to contribute to what is wrong with modern society.

Ann’s daughters younger Ann and Elizabeth are also supposed to be understanding of how I know as much as I do about the family, and how important to me their grandparents Joe and Martha are.

Shannon is not working with me with my books, and is willing to publish them not out of kindness, politeness, and courtesy; it is because she understands that this is how I intend on making a living for the rest of my life, she understands that her family and my father’s family as a whole are the center of my universe; and she understands that her family are some of the very limited amount of people that I allow into my social circle. Each of Shannon’s 4 siblings are not allowed to think of me as just this distant cousin of theirs, and nor are her siblings ever allowed to perceive it to be odd that I-being many, many years their junior. Colin, alone; is not allowed perceive it to be anomalous that I am the old soul that I am, have as extensive knowledge of things were back in the day know that I actually do, have as extensive knowledge of the family as I actually do, and care about their grandparents Marie “Mimi” and Stan, and their parents Mary Ann and Whit as much as I actually do. Furthermore, Colin is also not allowed to perceive me as having a personality akin to those of each of his 3 own sons; and Colin and his wife Sheila should care more about what they drive than their sons being involved with sports and fitness.

My parents should have never been avant-garde and progressive over for my parents having gotten into minivans and minivan-like car-based Crossover Utility Vehicles, having gotten into going to Ride Parks, having gotten into owning Boats and Vacation Homes, encouraging their daughter to get into band and music and being intricate members of the High School’s Band Club, joining the Detroit Area Corvair Club; and associating with the relatives that I don’t like my parents purchasing the Oldsmobile version of the Chevrolet Venture and two Buick Rendezvous instead of buying Full-Size Station Wagons, Suburbans, and Full-Size vans any longer, and being unreceptive towards having anything to do with an RV at first. Without a doubt do my parents not have any right to freely purchase whatever vehicle they want with the money they have earned, and without any consideration on my part. I do not think that putting up with family members nor vehicles that I don’t like as requirements for living with my parents.

As my father is never allowed to put practicality first before even cost when it comes to obtaining a vehicle, my father is not allowed to ask “why should we spend any money on impractical vehicles”, with regards to my parents balking at ideas of maybe ever purchasing a Conversion Van, a Heavy-Duty Pickup Truck; and to a lesser extent-a Half-Ton Full-Size Pickup Truck.

In 2003, Mallory was supposed to have pondered over if we had allowed her mother Shari Lewis to utilize my paternal grandmother’s old house where both my father and Chris grew up in-that is located very near the Warren-Detroit City border and the Macomb-Wayne County border; as the on-location set for one of her mother’s newest Television shows-Lamb Chop’s Play Along. And if someone had pulled up in a YJ Jeep Wrangler in front of my paternal grandmother’s house while they would be filming an episode of Lamb Chop’s Play Along inside or outside the house.

You know at that moment-I would be pondering over the history of Jeep, as well as when the CJ/Wrangler had a PTO unit; and was utilized for Agricultural, Commercial, and Industrial uses.

Also, I would be thinking at this moment about this being a very pleasant moment at a time that was better than the late 1990’s or at any time during the 21^st Century; my paternal grandparents having purchased the half acre property off of 8 Mile and Ryan Roads very near the Detroit City Proper in 1945, built that house, then added onto it once in the 1950’s and again in the late 1960’s-makes it perfect for filming on-location for one of Shari Lewis’s newest shows. This house is analogous to not only Shari Lewis and her husband Jeremy Tarcher’s house in the Los Angeles area, but is also nearly akin to the set that they had built at the Burnaby Studio in Burnaby, British Columbia where they normally film Lamb Chop’s Play Along. Furthermore, I would also be thinking at this time about how the Chrysler Corporation-upon purchasing AMC and Jeep just a few years earlier, could pepper the YJ Wrangler with colors from the K-Car and Dakota palettes as well as trim that was flashy and en vogue at this time to appeal to the younger people who could afford to buy it new, rather than those who appreciate the vehicle’s heritage and its usage for Agricultural, Commercial, and Industrial purposes.

And those who understand that AM General-formerly being the Military, Commercial, and Special Products Division of AMC prior to the spinoff to REMCO in the early 1980’s due to the parent company being majority owned by Renault at this time; should also be owning a Jeep.

AM General had ultimately won the contact by the United States Armed Forces whilst beating out the designs of 8 other companies to produce the HMMWV-the vehicle that would intentionally replace the military version of the Jeep; literally makes the HMMWV a “cousin once removed” to the CJ/Wrangler due to AM General having produced both the Military Jeep and the HMMWV, and the HMMWV having replaced both the Jeep and Military versions of Pickup Trucks for Tactical Combat Duty.

As I place large, American body-on-frame vehicles, and Volkswagens/Audis to be first-lined alongside my father’s family; I already have a 2-door Tahoe because it is emotionally important to me, and for these same emotional reasons; I also would like to have a Caprice Station Wagon, a Luxury Car such as a Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham Coupe or Sedan or a Lincoln Town Car; a Ford Bronco modified by Centurion Industries into a Suburban-type vehicle on a Ford F-350 Single-Rear-Wheel or Dual-Rear-Wheel chassis, a Volkswagen Corrado, a 2^nd or 3^rd generation Volkswagen Golf/Jetta/GTI, a T4 Volkswagen Transporter/EuroVan, a Type 183 Volkswagen Iltis Military Jeep-type vehicle (where the Quattro All-Wheel-Drive system had originated from), a C3 Audi 100/200/5000 Station Wagon, a Mercedes-Benz W201, W124, W126, W140, or R129; all for the same nihilist reasons on my parents’ part and emotional reasons on my part that I have my 2-door Tahoe.

Other vehicles that I would like to add to my personal collection, and have emotional attachments to are the S130, Z31, and Z32 Nissan Z-Car, the A70 Toyota Supra, the A10 and S20 Toyota MR2, the FC and FD Mazda RX-7; a personally-imported Japanese-spec Nissan R31 Skyline Station Wagon, C32 Laurel, Y30 Cedric/Gloria Station Wagon, E24 Urvan, D21 Diesel Crew Cab Mini-Pickup, 160, 260, or Y60 Patrol, Civilian Bus, Toyota Crown, H100 HiAce, N110 Diesel Crew Cab Mini-Pickup, N120 2-door Hi-Lux Surf/4Runner, Diesel J70 Land Cruiser Prado, J80 Diesel Land Cruiser, Coaster Bus, Space Arrow Bus, Blue Ribbon Bus; and S’Elega Bus.

I have had one nightmare where in an effort to stalk them, to find out what the heck is going on with us, and also out of Chris’s jealousy; Chris, along with my mother’s parents, brothers, their families, and in-laws each travel as a group to Vermont in a 15-passenger Full-Size Van that my mother’s eldest brother owns, with a Travel Trailer that he also owns in tow. Indeed, once they attend a racetrack at Ken Squier’s racetrack-Thunder Road in Barre, Vermont; and to attempt to visit Marie “Mimi” and her entire family.

It is our job to cosset Ken Squier and Marie’s “Mimi” entire family from my mother’s entire family.

During this entire trip, they make fools out of themselves when they find that Ken is not at his racetrack, that he is in fact on the road with CBS covering a NASCAR race-one of many that they have the rights to; and that Ken’s right hand man Tom Curley is currently running the racetrack, as is often the case due to Ken being a very busy man as a result of him not only running this racetrack, but also his family radio station, and him traveling around the country due to him being a part of the team for CBS’s NASCAR coverage.

They even tune into Ken’s radio station assigned to operate on 550 kilocycles, hoping that the station announces Ken’s whereabouts on the air; which they never do.

When they attempt to visit Mimi and her entire family, they knock on their doors; only to find that none of them are home. In fact, Mimi and her entire family are all presently at our homestead visiting with us and my paternal grandmother.

Chris’s mother/my paternal grandmother and her brother/my father are each quiet and reclusive towards Chris over the happenings and whereabouts of Mimi and Uncle Joe’s families, whenever they visit with us; and we visit with them. Too bad, so sad with regards to Chris’s jealousy.

Furthermore, I’ve also recently had a nightmare where Shari Lewis-a Jew; is scheduled to give a multi-denominational sermon along with her 3 puppets at a Catholic Church located somewhere in the Detroit area. And in attendance will be my mother’s entire family-brothers, children, parents, in-laws, aunt, cousins, and all; Bernice and her daughter Carletta, modern NASCAR drivers and ultra-religious people Carl Edwards, Matt Kenseth, and Elliott Sadler; and athletes and ultra-religious people such as NHL players Shane Doan, Darren McCarty, Martin LaPointe, and Steve Begin; NFL players Tom Brady and brothers Chris and Troy Maragos, and MLB players Brett Gardner and Steve Pearce.

As I have a right to cosset Shari Lewis, I would pick her up from the church in a Volkswagen Corrado, 2^nd or 3^rd Generation Golf/Jetta/GTI, or a Volkswagen Iltis Jeep-type military vehicle in order to protect her from speaking in front of these people, speed off from the church in the Volkswagen; the priest would say to the audience “due to the circumstances, the sermon with Shari Lewis has been canceled”. And I would transport Shari Lewis to the safety of our house. Just when we thought we would be safe in our house, my mother’s eldest brother’s daughter would trespass onto our property, and attempt to break open the glass on our four-pane sliding patio door leading to our backyard, and enter into our house. My paternal grandmother would then call the Police, and we would get the hell out of here in the Volkswagen, I would speed off to a safe place; and we wouldn’t return home until my mother’s eldest brother’s daughter had been arrested for breaking and entering.

Also, if you have been following this blog for a while, I don’t have any tolerance for the culture and customs of the 21st Century, the importance of Electronic Devices in everyday life during the 21st Century, and I don’t have any tolerance for Undercut haircuts, Buzzcut haircuts, Flattop haircuts, High & Tight Haircuts, Crewcut Haircuts, and I also don’t have any tolerance whatsoever for Tattoos and people dying their hair weird colors like purple, dark red, dark blue; or lime green. I think tattoos should cease to exist; and personally, I’d rather be discriminatory towards tattoos than gay people.

For more information on ours and Shannon & Ray’s association with Shari Lewis, please see this post:

Connection With Shari Lewis, Her Daughter; And Her Sister-In-Law

Blog Post Subject Matter:

There is a highly-coveted small town in Mid-Michigan that was originally settled by people from the Bavarian area of Germany, many of the descendants of the Bavarian settlers still reside their today; and the town remains true to it’s Bavarian roots. Called Frankenmuth, Michigan.

The town is famous for restaurants that serve their Chicken dinners and their traditional German cuisine. The Chicken dinners, and related food such as Chicken Tenders, and Chicken Thighs are served by 2 restaurants that are owned by brothers of the same family and are located across the street from each other-Zehnder’s and the Bavarian Inn.

The town became famous for their Chicken dinners when in 1927, the Zehnder family had purchased the Exchange Hotel and had converted it to a restaurant. The Zehnder family had also, at a later time; purchased the hotel located directly across the street called Fischer’s Hotel and had converted that building to the Bavarian Inn restaurant.

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My paternal grandmother, Joe, and Martha all liked eating there; as did also Marie “Mimi” and Mary Ann whenever they came to the Detroit area to visit.

This picture of my paternal grandmother, her daughter Chris; and her eldest sibling Marie “Mimi” was taken of them each sitting on a ledge directly across the street from the Bavarian Inn restaurant, with the other restaurant in plain sight when this picture was taken.

When we take Rick Steves to Zhender’s Restaurant in Frankenmuth, Michigan in the diesel Suburban; he compares the food to all that he’s ever experienced in the Bavarian area of Germany. He even buys himself a couple of German souvenirs while he’s in Frankenmuth, Michigan with us.

When we take Shari Lewis, her daughter Mallory, and her sister-in-law Judith Krantz; along with Shannon & Ray in the diesel Suburban to Zhender’s Restaurant in Frankenmuth, Michigan; Shari and Judith enjoy the restaurant’s traditional Chicken dinners and they along with Mallory each rave about how wonderful the food is. Shari and Mallory also talk to us about a restaurant in the Los Angeles area that’s also famous for their Chicken dinners that’s owned and operated by Knott’s Berry Farm. Shannon reminisces on when her grandmother Marie “Mimi” had brought her and both of her 2 sisters here when they all came to the Detroit area for Chris & Jim’s wedding in 1968.

When we take Marc Brown, his wife Laurie, and his 3 sisters Kim, Bonnie, and Colleen; in addition to Shannon & Ray either in the diesel Suburban or in our old, retired School Bus; Marc Brown and company all rave about the food, and Shannon reminisces further on when Marie “Mimi” had brought her and both of her sisters there. Marc Brown and company also purchase souvenirs and food-related items to prepare some of the food that Frankenmuth is famous for in their own homes at the store located in the basement of Zehnder’s restaurant.

Although this is the newest example of the Ford B-Series chassis & cowl powered by the Cummins B-platform engine, this is just any example of a conventional style School Bus on the Ford B-Series chassis & cowl.

A bus like this, but older (from the early-mid 1980’s) with a Blue Bird, Carpenter; or Thomas body with the 370 or 429 V8 gasoline engines is what we’d buy specifically to transport my paternal grandmother, Marie “Mimi, Mary Ann and their family; and Joe, Martha; and their family to say, a restaurant; and for my mother to practice her bus driving skills during her off time in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”.

See earlier post https://mparij.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/public-surplus-auction-1471449/

1998 (98-BB) Ford Bluebird School Bus – Caro Community Schools Surplus

Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1473792

Personally, I am not fond of the smaller School Buses built on the Full-Size Van chassis & cab and the GM/Workhorse ‘P’ Stripped Chassis. I like the heavier conventional and transit style School Buses much better.

In reality, John Roeck (who we’ll talk more about in another post) of the Warren Consolidated Schools school district in the Metropolitan Detroit area had bought smaller School Buses built on the GM/Workhorse P-Chassis. But in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”, my mother’s workplace instead buys 36 passenger conventional style School Buses on the Ford B-Series and International chassis & cowls in lieu of the smaller School Buses built on the GM/Workhorse P-Chassis.

Below is a promotional video for the GM P-Chassis:

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Videos of a few Blue Bird Mini-Birds built on the GM P-chassis:

Video of a Thomas Mighty Mite built on the GM P-chassis:

Video of a Carpenter Cadet built on the GM P-chassis:

Photos of a Superior Pacemaker built on the GM P-chassis:

At some point in time “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”, we also buy an old, retired School Bus that would either be a Transit style like the one that’s the subject or an older gasoline-powered Conventional style School Bus on a Ford B-Series chassis & cowl or an International S-Series chassis & cowl. We would use the bus occasionally to transport ourselves, my paternal grandmother, Marie “Mimi”, Mary Ann & her children, Joe, Martha, Margaret, Ralph, Ann, Paul; and their 2 daughters all simultaneously whenever we go somewhere as a large family group (e.g. a restaurant) and we can all be transported in a single vehicle. Besides, it further fuels our frenzy for Class 6-8 vehicles, the air brakes, and the fundamentals of driving and operating them just like how the older Class 6 Box Truck already does; and it allows my mother to further hone her School Bus driving skills during her off-time.

We’d pick up a bus with a floorplan similar to the one in this Blog post with a multitude of wheelchair stations to accommodate the elderly and physically-challenged relatives that would have to be transported in wheelchairs while riding this bus-being my paternal Grandmother, Marie “Mimi”, Mary Ann, Joe; and Martha.

1988 BLUE BIRD WHEEL CHAIR BUS – Palo Verde Unified School District Surplus

Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1471449