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Subject:Re: Interesting Bus conversions
From:Jan Allbright
Date:Wed, 30 Nov 94 12:04:26 PST

> 
> I have often thought of combining two busses (the front and rear 2/3 of
> each) to make a stretch bus.  There is some talk here lately of one of these
> having been sighted in Palo Alto, or something.  It seems that it would be
> rather straightforward sheet metal work.  Has anyone else done this?
> 
> I did see in Los Alamos a '63+'64 stretched by one window panel, and a tall
> roof out the top.  This guy is a hermit electrical engineer for the Lab
> there, and has the whole thing instrumented to the hilt, with propane
> heater, stove, tanks, and even a shower inside.  Pretty neat.  
> 
> Another dream I have is to plant a bug top on the roof of my Westfalia, so
> that you'd have the windsheild like those old Greyhound busses, and more
> glass all around.  I just can't give up the upper bunk, though.
> 
>    John Tauxe     tauxejd@ornl.gov     Oak Ridge National Laboratory 
> 

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