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Now that is a crazy looking bus...part of me says, "what a great project" and the other part says, "what in the world would you do with that thing".
6500 pounds, that's really lightweight for a 24 foot bus.
Now that is a crazy looking bus...part of me says, "what a great project" and the other part says, "what in the world would you do with that thing".
6500 pounds, that's really lightweight for a 24 foot bus.
It's the same length as my F-350 dually crew cab, and weighs 2,000 lbs less! Guessing the body is all aluminum. It would make a cool grocery-getter.
It's the same length as my F-350 dually crew cab, and weighs 2,000 lbs less! ....
Unfortunately it also has 300 less HP! Really cool, I would think with no panel rust (especially around all those windows) it would be a pretty easy rebuild. Paging Tinman...
Gar Wood Industries got into the bus manufacturing business at about the same time. Soon after he completed a streamlined street car for Pullman, aircraft designer William B. Stout came up with a lightweight bus built along the same lines. Financing was secured to construct a prototype and Gar Wood's Detroit shops were selected to construct it. Stout applied for a domestic patent on the bus body's construction on August 19, 1936, and on June 7, 1938 was awarded US Patent No. 2119655 which he assigned to Gar Wood Industries Inc.
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