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03-23-2005, 10:08 PM
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Originally Posted by TurboSupra12
well to tell you the truth, this isn't necessarily something that will go through.
there's a 1990 3000 series bus on ebay.. it's 500 USD.. 607.44$ with exchange.. just looked around, and came up with that..here's the link
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...&category=6728
oh and yeah, it's a deisel.. with a 7.3 litre
and *IF* we ever ended up getting one, at any time, i doubt it'd make any long highway drives.
there's a 1990 3000 series bus on ebay.. it's 500 USD.. 607.44$ with exchange.. just looked around, and came up with that..here's the link
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...&category=6728
oh and yeah, it's a deisel.. with a 7.3 litre
and *IF* we ever ended up getting one, at any time, i doubt it'd make any long highway drives.
That's the current bid, with reserve not met. You can bet it will go for more than that. Mileage is pretty low, condition seems ok, tires shown may be good for certification plus a year or so.
And these things are sooo easy to work on and easier to distance drive than an ordinary fullsize van.
If you could get it for under $1,000 US, you could bring it back and resell it for a good profit, AFTER you get your own usage out of it.
03-24-2005, 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by yourmama
I bought my full-size bus with gas engine from Laidlaw for $800 plus $250 to certify a few years ago. We used it to go to races across N.America from Mosport to Montreal to Mid-Ohio to Watkins Glen to Daytona Speedway and everywhere in between.
Now they're all diesels though, so the asking prices have jumped way up.
Unless things have changed since then, Ontario school buses are retired from school services use once the bus is ten years old, so if you pick right, you can get a bus for not a lot of money that still has a lot of life left on it.
Pick well, try to get a bus with good gearing for fuel economy and highway speed without stressing the engine. Tow bills can get expensive.
My bus, the test trip was a trip to Daytona Speedway for the 24 -hour endurance race there. We counted the states as we went - if we made it past half-way and broke, we would tow it down. If not, we would tow it back. The money spent on the bus was throw-away, intended for one trip only. When it ended up completing the Daytona trip and lasting through many more trips and years, that was just a bonus as far as I was concerned.
Now they're all diesels though, so the asking prices have jumped way up.
Unless things have changed since then, Ontario school buses are retired from school services use once the bus is ten years old, so if you pick right, you can get a bus for not a lot of money that still has a lot of life left on it.
Pick well, try to get a bus with good gearing for fuel economy and highway speed without stressing the engine. Tow bills can get expensive.
My bus, the test trip was a trip to Daytona Speedway for the 24 -hour endurance race there. We counted the states as we went - if we made it past half-way and broke, we would tow it down. If not, we would tow it back. The money spent on the bus was throw-away, intended for one trip only. When it ended up completing the Daytona trip and lasting through many more trips and years, that was just a bonus as far as I was concerned.
03-24-2005, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by yourmama
I bought my full-size bus with gas engine from Laidlaw for $800 plus $250 to certify a few years ago. We used it to go to races across N.America from Mosport to Montreal to Mid-Ohio to Watkins Glen to Daytona Speedway and everywhere in between.
03-24-2005, 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by adamo
Sounds like you had some good times on the old girl. What was your round-trip fuel bill if you don't mind me asking?
For the Daytona trip, distance was 2000 km each way, bus got around 1-1/2 km per litre average. We drove another few hundred km down there to visit the Kennedy Space Center, Disney, the Orlando zoo, plus the track. Price for gas varied widely from 55 cents a liter up here to the equivalent of as low as 35 cents a litre down south.
Fuel bill was under $100 CDN per person for the 28-hour non-stop trip down there, 6 days there, and the 24-hour non-stop trip back.
03-24-2005, 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Daley
We (my brothers and dad) did like the exact same thing. To oswego, Watkins Glen, Ransomville for the world of outlaws and all over Ontario. We had a smaller bus (Ford) but it was propane..on one of the hills going into Mosport we took it up to around 120 km/h but by the time we were at the top of the valley we might have been doing 50 km/h. We did have a trailer with dirtbikes and 4-wheelers on it though.
You would do better today. Mosport doesn't allow dirts and quads any more, so that saves you a bit of towing weight when climbing the hills on the way there.
03-24-2005, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by yourmama
You would do better today. Mosport doesn't allow dirts and quads any more, so that saves you a bit of towing weight when climbing the hills on the way there.
This year when the racing starts for the Ontario Touring Car Series we're hoping to have a pit vehicle, like a small 4 wheeler.
03-24-2005, 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Daley
They haven't allowed them for a while. We used to bring them there and have them impounded because they weren't allowed. When we go to the DDT they don't have a problem with them being used as pit bikes..
This year when the racing starts for the Ontario Touring Car Series we're hoping to have a pit vehicle, like a small 4 wheeler.
This year when the racing starts for the Ontario Touring Car Series we're hoping to have a pit vehicle, like a small 4 wheeler.
The bike riders walked out of there, came back several hours later with a car and trailer to load their bikes on. My guess is that they had to walk all the way home from wherever they came from to get that car and trailer.
Mosport used to be a zoo for those things, but these days you hardly ever see them outside of the paddock area, at least not for very long. Me, I don't miss them. Nobody has fouled up my campsite by zipping through and spraying sand everywhere in a very long time, and I haven't had to worry about my toes being nearly amputated by fools doing wheelie stands in front of the cnr 3 washroom.
03-24-2005, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by yourmama
That's the current bid, with reserve not met. You can bet it will go for more than that. Mileage is pretty low, condition seems ok, tires shown may be good for certification plus a year or so.
And these things are sooo easy to work on and easier to distance drive than an ordinary fullsize van.
If you could get it for under $1,000 US, you could bring it back and resell it for a good profit, AFTER you get your own usage out of it.
And these things are sooo easy to work on and easier to distance drive than an ordinary fullsize van.
If you could get it for under $1,000 US, you could bring it back and resell it for a good profit, AFTER you get your own usage out of it.
yeah that's the current bid. like i isaid, right now it's at 500. It does look in pretty good conditon, especially for the price. How would it work getting this across the border?
if bought, we'd take a weekend trip and go pick it up frmo CT..and sorry, i doubt there'd gonna be 35 subs. maybe only 20.
it'd be gutted obviously, then full of couches, tables, stripper pole (
) etc. it's be great fun! and for the amount of money it is, you can't go wrong. if there's something majorly wrong, just sell it again.
03-25-2005, 02:21 AM
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^^ oh yea you gotta c notch it and bag it like that 2 smooth smoothies van....same set up as that and your layin frame in a international school bus.....on a side note the international motors are usully good just watch there wiring on the early 90's models and early 90's interntional air break lines were prone to collapsing but they are most likely hydraulic on that
