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Old Feb 2, 2008 | 01:08 PM
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Talking ford school buses

any one have or working on any school buses or have pics of any kind of bus or other different body types of the old fords/mercurys.my wife is a school bus driver and she whats to see some old buses
 
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Old Feb 2, 2008 | 02:24 PM
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My wife's a school bus driver also. she's been driving almost ten years.

I have a few bus pictures but they're on my shop computer, I'm at home now. I do have a couple here:



Click on the image to below, another window with open with a lot more pictrures of this bus. This was recently sold on eBay.

<a href="http://homesteadexchangenetwork.net/smf/index.php?topic=997.msg15350" target="gypsy"><img src="http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a105/emeraldgypsy49/egypsy/Egypsy033.jpg" border="0"></a>

These are the bus ads in the 1949 Hildy's Ford truck catalog. Click on an image to bring up a larger version in a separate window.

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Here's one if your wife's on the racier side:

 
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Old Feb 2, 2008 | 04:47 PM
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I have my eyes on a bout a '58 FORD school bus. My mother in law uses it to store "stuff" in it.
One of these days I will talk her out of it.
 
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Old Feb 2, 2008 | 05:52 PM
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gez bob we have more in common then we think both have wifes that drive buses and we both like old fords.captian you better start talken and get some pics lol
 
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Old Feb 2, 2008 | 07:48 PM
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I have a few more but will have to put them in another format, will work at it
 
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Old Feb 2, 2008 | 08:56 PM
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my wife is a bus driver also . so as such if i could find a decent one close i'd be able to get another old ford parked here rather easily under the guise of it being hers ..
 
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Old Feb 2, 2008 | 09:37 PM
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is there a way of copying these pics so i can print them out .then the wife can show them to her kids on her bus. think there be a few of them thinking it be pretty cool
 
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Add these to the mix. Pics taken somewhere along the road between Illinois and Arizona.
 
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Old Feb 2, 2008 | 10:36 PM
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And there's these. The one with the Cad nose is off the web somewhere. The effie was at Knoxville this past summer.
 
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Originally Posted by mercman65
is there a way of copying these pics so i can print them out .then the wife can show them to her kids on her bus. think there be a few of them thinking it be pretty cool
Right clip on the pictures and "save as" a image file on your computer.
 
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Thumbs up Reminiscencing about old school buses

I like the old 1950 ford bus, the first bus i ever rode on was a 1950 ford bus. Dos Palos elementry school bus # was 6-50 for some reason i will never forget that number. i recall one hot afternoon going home from school and it konked out for some reason, they picked us up in another bus (i think it was a wayne) # 9-55.. my uncle also drove school bus for the Dos Palos High School. oh well i was just rattling on, nice pictures brought back an old thought.
 

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No pics here, but there are a couple of busses from the 30's in the area. They've been sitting a while, and I am not sure of the brand. Thought about picking them up for a while, and building one out of the two. Cousin in law was in a band that was moving up fast in the grunge rock genre a while back, and I thought about getting them because thay could of made a really cool adams family type tour bus. They are big enough that they could of at least been cool to ride in for the band members, but not enough room for the equipment.
 
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Maybe it'd be ok if I add a Power Wagon bus.
 
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I have a few bus photos. I will try to find and post them.
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not many like that up here they used old vans and travlalls when i first started school.but our first real school bus was a ford about 1974-75 about 30 pass
 
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