Tag: School Bus
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The Wheel-Trans Paratransit Division Of The Toronto Transit Commission, As Of The Mid-1980’s, Having Basal General Motors B-Platform Station Wagons; Dodge B-Van Passenger Vans Fitted With High Tops And Wheelchair Lifts, And Commercialized Versions Of The Thomas Mighty-Mite School Bus On The General Motors P-Chassis, With Wheelchair Lifts In Their Fleet:
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A Couple Who Had Purchased A Brand-New Thomas Mighty Mite Type B Activity Bus On The General Motors P-Chassis For Personal Use:
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A Carpenter Cadet Type B School Bus, normally built on the General Motors P-Chassis; built on the Ford Step Van Chassis as far is this unit in question is concerned, powered by the Windsor 302 cubic inch V8 Engine, and the C6 Automatic Transmission.
https://www.purplewave.com/auction/240605/item/EK4574/1975-Ford-Transit_Vehicles-Bus-Illinois
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Following Up From This Earlier Post: Strange, Young, And Radical Modern Children’s Entertainer Who Calls Himself “Blippi”, Who Appeals To Young, Radical Parents; And Their Parents Who Are Likely To Grow Up To Be Just As Radical, If Not More Radical Than Their Parents; This Strange, Young, Radical And Modern Children’s Entertainer Who Calls Himself “Blippi”, Does Not Have Any Respect For School Buses; And Neglects A School Bus The Same Way Many A Person Born In The Year 1975 And Beyond Neglects Their Own, Personal Automobile; And Does Not Think Much Of Automobiles And The Automobile Industry Other Than Japanese, Korean And Chinese Automobiles, And Strange Used Car Dealership Chains, Smart Cellular Telephone And Tablet Application/Software Creators; And Website Owners Carvana, Drive Time, True Car, And Car Gurus.
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Promotional Video Commissioned By The Light, Medium, And Heavy-Duty Truck Subdivision Of The Chevrolet Motor Division Of General Motors For Their 1984 Model Year Light And Medium-Duty School Bus Chassis; Including The Usage Of The P-Chassis By School Bus Coachbuilders, And The Conventional Chassis & Cowl:
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A Thomas Mighty-Mite On The General Motors P-Chassis That Has Since Been Repainted In A Three-Tone Gray, Black, And Blue Color Scheme; And Repurposed As An Activity Bus By It’s Previous Owner And Operator, That Sadly; Has Been Converted Into A Motorhome.
Sadly, idiots who convert School Buses into Motorhomes not only can’t comprehend the fact that School Bus chassis were never designed for the Highway driving that Motorhomes encounter.
The School Bus body might also be rusted out to a point where it is beyond repair and rehabilitation.
Because Hoekstra Truck (the Thomas Distributor for the entire State of Michigan) had the lowest bid for a smaller-size, lighter-duty Bus that is built on the General Motors P-Chassis; when compared to the Carpenter Distributor for the entire State of Michigan, as of the 1984-1985 school year; John Roeck, on behalf of the Warren Consolidated Schools Public School District that serves the Detroit suburbs of Warren, Sterling Heights, and Troy, Michigan; had ordered Thomas Mighty-Mites instead of Carpenter Cadets this particular school year. Beginning in 1990, John Roeck would begin to order Blue Bird Mini-Birds on the General Motors P-Chassis.
John Roeck would order Blue Bird Mini-Birds again in 1991, would revert back to Carpenter Cadets in 1992 and 1993 (only to discover that Carpenter’s fit, finish, and build quality had greatly deteriorated by this time), and would continue ordering Blue Bird Mini-Birds from 1994 up until 1999; when General Motors had already sold the design and intellectual rights of the P-Chassis to Workhorse by this time; and Workhorse would cease to offer the School Bus provision package on the P-Chassis, and in part and parcel; offer the P-Chassis to School Bus coachbuilders by this time.
Carpenter would go out of business in 2000, and the School Bus market had largely moved on to Type A School Buses on Full-Size Van Cutaway Chassis for their small, light-duty School Bus needs by this time.
Photograph taken from the Warren High School Yearbook, 1986-1987 School Year -
A Front Engine Blue Bird TC/2000 Located In The Norfolk Suburb Of Virginia Beach, Virginia; In The Hampton Roads Area:
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A T3 Front Engine Blue Bird All-American Transit-Style School Bus That Is A Part Of Warren Consolidated Schools’ Fleet That Was Involved In A Major Collision On Thursday, October 2, 2025.
Warren Consolidated Schools is a Public School District serving the Detroit suburbs of Warren, Sterling Heights, and Troy, Michigan.
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Blue Bird TC/2000 School Buses That Are A Part Of The Fleet Of The Dearborn Public Schools Public School District, Serving The Detroit Suburb Of Dearborn, Michigan; Where The Ford Motor Company Has Been Headquartered Since 1928:
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Recently, I had a dream in my sleep where I Transported Both Of The Two Children NASCAR Driver Dale Earnhardt Sr. Had With Brenda Lorraine Jackson, Dale Earnhardt Jr. And Kelley Earnhardt Miller On Several Smaller-Size, Lighter-Duty School Buses Built Atop The General Motors/Workhorse P-Chassis.
I, personally prefer heavier 36 and 48 Passenger Type C Conventional-style School Buses, and 48 Passenger Type D Front Engine Transit-style School Buses over lighter-duty Type B Buses built atop the General Motors/Workhorse P-Chassis; and Type A Cutaway School Buses built on the General Motors (Chevrolet/GMC) Full-Size Van and Ford Econoline Cutaway Chassis.
I found myself saying to Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his sister Kelly that I prefer the smaller-size heavier School Buses over the lighter School Buses that are built atop the General Motors P-Chassis and the Full-Size Van Cutaway Chassis.
The Smaller-Size, Lighter-Duty School Buses Built Atop The General Motors/Workhorse P-Chassis that I found myself transporting Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his sister Kelly on are a 1984 Blue Bird Mini Bird that is a 32 Passenger unit built atop the 137″ Wheelbase, powered by the GM/Detroit Diesel 6.2 liter Diesel and the TH-475 Automatic Transmission, that doesn’t have a Wheelchair Lift or any Wheelchair Stations; a 1989 Carpenter Carpenter Cadet that is also a 32 Passenger unit built atop the 137″ Wheelbase, is also powered by the GM/Detroit Diesel 6.2 liter Diesel and the TH-475 Automatic Transmission, and also doesn’t have a Wheelchair Lift or any Wheelchair Stations; a 1990 Thomas Mighty-Mite that is also a 32 Passenger unit built atop the 137″ Wheelbase, is also powered by the GM/Detroit Diesel 6.2 liter Diesel and the TH-475 Automatic Transmission, and also doesn’t have a Wheelchair Lift or any Wheelchair Stations; and a 1992 Blue Bird Mini Bird that is a 36 Passenger Unit built atop the 157″ Wheelbase, is also powered by the GM/Detroit Diesel 6.2 liter Diesel and the TH-475 Automatic Transmission (which, by this time, has been renamed by General Motors as the 3L80 HD; as General Motors had begun to rename their Hyrda-Matic Automatic Transmissions starting in the early 1990’s), has a seating capacity for 8 Ambulatory Passengers located in the far rear of the School Bus body, a front-mounted Wheelchair Lift, and 3 Wheelchair Stations.
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An Early-Mid 1990’s Blue Bird All-American Rear Engine Transit-Style School Bus Located In The Los Angeles Suburb Of Garden Grove, California.
Apparently, this Bus was still owned by the Garden Grove Unified School District; and still in active service as of the time the Search Engine firm Google had taken these ‘Street View’ photographs where this Bus was parked at the moment.
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An Evil School Bus Driver, Candace Imbrunone-Barr, Who Is Employed By The Warren Consolidated Schools Public School District That Serves The Detroit Suburbs Of Warren, Michigan; Sterling Heights, Michigan; And Troy, Michigan; Who Views The School Buses That She Drives As Nothing More Than A Machine And A Piece Of Steel, Is Covered In Tattoos, And Is A Supporter Of The Evil Donald Trump.
Candace Imbrunone-Barr, who was hired as a School Bus Driver by Warren Consolidated Schools in 1991; along with her equally evil colleagues and fellow School Bus Drivers Laurie Krause, Sandra Rivera-Blaskay, Penny Orban, Pam Mott, Anita Jacob, Deborah Giganic, Kim Guzowski-Proch, and Cheryl Bacarella-Misiak should all be barred from listening to WDVD-FM in Detroit, WKQI-FM in Detroit, WLNK-FM in Charlotte, North Carolina; WPTE-FM in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia; WCXL-FM in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina; WNVZ-FM in Norfolk, Virginia; WEZF-FM in Burlington, Vermont; and WXXX-FM in Burlington, Vermont.
Instead, I would force Candace Imbrunone-Barr and her equally evil colleagues to listen to WJR-FM in Detroit, WLDM-FM and Pre-Dick Purtan WCZY-FM in Detroit, WXYZ-AM in Detroit when it had it’s Adult Contemporary and Talk formats, WBT-FM when it had an automated Easy Listening format with updated forecasts by Clyde “Cloudy” McLean (which Reno Bailey wrote an article about his time being in charge of the Cart Machine at 1 Julian Price Place on the website BT Memories http://btmemories.com/articles/departments/wbt-fm/feeding_beast/feeding_beast.html and when it had it’s literally very pleasant Adult Contemporary format while Bob Lacey returned to Radio after hosting the Charlotte version of “P.M Magazine” on WBTV, and hosting a nightly Radio Program several years earlier on WBT-AM, and had tapped fellow Jefferson-Pilot and WBTV employee Cheryl “Sheri Lynch” Wardlynch to serve as his On-Air Partner; and form the “Bob & Sheri Morning Show” on WBT-FM; when WPTE-FM was WNRN-FM and WJQI-FM and had Easy Listening and Mainstream Adult Contemporary formats; and when WEZF-FM in Burlington, Vermont had a Mainstream Adult Contemporary format.
Moreover, I would also force Candace Imbrunone-Barr and her equally evil colleagues to listen to my good friend Ken Squier’s Radio Station WDEV-AM in Waterbury Vermont (see this earlier post: I Am Deeply Saddened By The Recent Passing (As Of The Time Of Writing This Post) Of My Personal Friend And CBS NASCAR Broadcaster Ken Squier), to WJBK-AM-FM/WDEE-AM-FM when they were owned and operated by Storer Broadcasting, WBT-AM, Cox owned and operated WSB-AM-FM in Atlanta, Georgia; WAGA-AM-FM/WPLO-AM-FM in Atlanta, Georgia when they were owned and operated by Storer Broadcasting and the Broadcasting Division of the Pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough, WSM-AM in Nashville, Tennessee; WGBS-AM-FM in Miami, Florida when they were owned and operated by Storer Broadcasting and by Jefferson-Pilot, WLW-AM in Cincinnati, Ohio; CFRB-AM in Toronto, CFRB-FM/CKFM-FM when it had Easy Listening and Mainstream Adult Contemporary formats; and CFCF-AM and CFCF-FM/CFQR-FM in Montreal.
Additionally, as part of a plot consisting of sweet revenge; I, myself would transport Candace Imbrunone-Barr and her equally evil colleagues on a Commercialized version of a School Bus to force upon them the fact that I am able to drive a School Bus, or a Commercialized version of a School Bus better, safer, and more cautiously than they can; but that they should not view a School Bus or a Commercialized version of a School Bus as northing more than a machine and as a piece of steel. Rather, they should view a School Bus or a Commercialized version of a School Bus as a vehicle where the most important aspect of it is a body designed and manufactured by another party being mounted atop a readily available Chassis.
Heaven forbid that Candace Imbrunone-Barr comprehends just how much more important that the School Buses that she drives are than the Detroit Lions NFL Team, the National Football League as a whole, the Sport of American Football, and any other Sport.
I am sure that my good friend Ken Squier, Jefferson-Standard/Jefferson-Pilot employees Charles Crutchfield, Bob Lacey, Cheryl “Sheri Lynch” Wardlynch, Bob Inman, Mike and Barbara McKay, and Eric Thomas; the founder of Storer Broadcasting/Storer Communications originally as the Fort Industry Company George B. Storer, and George’s son and later the head of Storer Broadcasting/Storer Communications Peter Storer Sr. would each be disappointed in the behavior of Candace Imbrunone-Barr and her equally evil colleagues.
I am also sure that another friend of mine, former NASCAR Crew Chief and Team Owner Ray Evernham, and fellow NASCAR Team Owners Richard Childress, Rick Hendrick, Jack Roush, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Tony Stewart, and Bill and Mickey Stavola; would also be disappointed in the behavior of Candace Imbrunone-Barr and her equally evil colleagues.
For similar topics, please see these earlier posts: Modern NASCAR Drivers And Television Personalities, And Several Employees Of The Warren Consolidated Schools School District; A Public School District Serving The Detroit Suburbs Of Warren, Sterling Heights, And Troy Michigan Each Need To Be Forced To Listen To Easy Listening Music Like What Has Been Recorded In The Background On The Videos In This Post, When What Is Now WLNK-FM Had The WBT-FM Call Letters The Second Time Around, The Literally Pleasant Mainstream Adult Contemporary Format, And Had Utilized The “Sunny” Moniker, and One Of Many Sporting Events That Modern NASCAR Driver Matt Kenseth In His Youth, Basketball Player, Baseball Player, Athletic Trainer, Personal Trailer, And Former Homicide Detective With The Tulsa, Oklahoma Police Department Who Was Featured On The Reality Television Program “The First 48” Matt Frazier In His Youth, And Each And Every One The Relatives That I Have Never Meant To Have Anything To Do With Should Have Been Barred From Watching.
Such an awful insult to Joe Biden, a great man and a wonderful President; by Candace Imbrunone-Barr. See these earlier posts regarding how upset I am that Donald Trump has been elected to the position as the President of the United States once more: I Am Beyond Furious, And I Am Also Beyond Upset Over The Evil Donald Trump Being Elected To The Position Of President Of The United States Once More, and I Am Profoundly Disheartened By The Fact That Kamala Harris, Who Is Winsome And Morally Upright, Was Not Elected As The President Of The United States.
Matthew Parij 