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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มิ.ย. 2020
- Take a 40+ mile road trip on Kevin Cartwright's classic 1974 T6H-4523N, originally delivered to Tacoma Transit System, WA & is now painted as Chicago Transit Authority.
Make: General Motors Company (GMC)
Model: T6H-4523N
Engine: Detroit Diesel 6V71N
Transmission: Allison VH9
Name: Priscilla 🙂 - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
There's some things you'll never forget like the hum of an old buses engine just brings back memories .
Love that sound and sure does bring back memories, I Drove a 1966 old GMC in 1986 for Queens Transit Corp now MTA Bus of New York City
Thus is why I have a 40 ft MC9 in front of my House
Windows rattling like crazy on GMC New Look buses. I don't understand how quiet they are inside in the videos I'm watching? There used to be an old New Jersey Transit New Look Bus video of one idling in a parking lot then pulling out onto Route 1 and cruising down it and the racket was enormous and exactly like I remember those buses. They were such rattle traps.
Man this takes me back. I used to love the sound of those engines.
Sounds baby smooth like it just came out the factory...unlike some of the others I've seen on here.remember these from late 70's to like 81 when the new look came the newline buses in Cincinnati,Ohio.they were used years after in Canada I found out.
@@slow71971 Yeah I rode on these busses in the 80's in Canada and remember them in the 70's also.
They mostly had GM Detroit Diesel engines. They were unique for being a two stroke cycle instead of four stroke like most other makes.
"There's a bomb on a bus. If it drops below 50, it explodes....what do you do?"
The movie speed is all I think of when I see these old GM fishbowl busses.
On a more serious note, I'm jealous! I love your bus!
Pop quiz
I just felt 35 years younger for a few moments. Riding the bus to and from high school. Cool bus and thanks for sharing!
Takes ya right back doesn’t it ? Unreal seems like yesterday
Talk about memories for me. I even remember at least one bus still having a manual transmission in regular service on the CTA. This was long before the interest in buses trains and other machinery sunk in deep with me. The covers over the cooling fan area and the transmission side were often an amazing sight to see flapping in the breeze while watching the CTA bus bounce and sway over the many potholes in the city of Chicago back in the day.
This made me laugh…Grew up on Cermak Rd. in Berwyn and saw dozens of these daily as a kid (CTA #25 and 2-3 RTA routes). And, yes, saw more than a couple access panels flapping around!!!
High school was late ‘80s when RTA buses became Pace. At the beginning it was fishbowls and Flxbls. Four years later it was those white/yellow buses that became omnipresent.
If you were a kid in the 70’s you definitely remember these ol’ girls running the city streets, seems like yesterday, pull the cord dink dink lol.
I also loved seeing you spin around the big wheel without power steering. All of OC Transpo’s New Looks were retrofitted with power steering between 1992 and 95...those that weren’t retired by 95 that is.
Wow ! thats remind me some good souvenirs ! I m 50 y-o and remember taking them, every days, to go to college Notre-Dame on Queen Mary St, and transfert for Metro at Snowdon station. The last ones in Montreal city, just before the arrival of the GM Classic, still with those DD 6V
Thanks for sharing this !
I'm 24, and I remember these from when I was living in Timmins, Ontario as a kid. City bought some used buses from Toronto and they all sucked and kept breaking so they brought these old boys back out.
Nice to see the old Pierce Transit fishbowl still on the road, I got to see her on display a few times. A bud company where I lived as a kid had a few still working through the 90s and some are still in service today as shipyard worker buses
Absolutely beautiful. I used to ride something very similar in Chicago many years ago
He had me dying laughing when he was turning the wheel at super speed at 6:42!🤣🤣🤣
I busted out laughing so hard I had to repeat it like 10 times
That was some frantic hand over hand action on that wheel.
@@briankady1456 He's definitely an experienced steering wheel holder!
he moved quickly like a cat
I remember riding on theses buses when I was little.
Phoenix had 30 of these 1961 & 1962 versions plus five 1965 models when I was growing up and many were still in service until 1985. 13 of them were 53 passenger and the others were 45 passenger. Our had 6V-92s in them and were air conditioned. Those buses just ran forever and rarely missed a day. Total engine failures (blown completely) were extremely rare. Memories are clear just like yesterday.
Thank goodness you didn't destroy it's history by making an RV out if it.
I took these in Halifax as a child. At the time, I didn't like them much and I preferred the GM/MCI Classic series that came afterwards, but now I do miss them over the modern low-floor buses. These could hold more, and the seats were more comfortable.
It's the same in aviation. An aircraft like the 727 was seen as ordinary, or typical, by many in its day. Then 20 years later, you're packed in a modern airliner thinking, man, don't I miss the 727.
@@RyanBomar You're absolutely correct. Here I am coveting a ride on one of Nolinor's 737-200s!
And my gosh, these look like comfortable seats. I remember Halifax having bench seats though their padding was still nicer than the hard plastic we have now.
This sure shows the difference of viability view from inside vs the New Flyer's or Nova buses of toady. They in My opinion, were still the BEST ever made & sad to see them go. Low floor's had to replace hem in the 80's. Never will be the same. Well done for video & hearing that what was known as the screaming gimme.
I remember these buses when I was a little kid. Would love to ride one again.
Who agrees this better than today buses
Yes these things look so cool and aerodynamic
The sound of music, epic. We never had two strokes in Europe 😢
One of my favorite bus designs
Sorry to comment yet again, but while watching this, it reminded me of the smell - does anyone else remember that slightly sweet diesel smell you used to get when the bus would pull up?
And bloody hell that steering - you had to really haul on it to get it around!
Two speed transmission, great for hills and city stops, but on those longer routes at higher speeds, they just screamed at high RPMs and begged for a third or fourth gear.
9:50 I think I spotted a Las Vegas Sands BBJ there?
All those people waiting at bus stops going "I kinda wish I was taking that instead..." :D
@@ianrobertsonpiano , such great comments! So true.
Dig those fishbowl era buses that 74 GMC transit is kool runs amazing stops & steer right neat 44 year old bus.
Round of applause. 👋👋👋👋👋These Buses bring a lot of memories for me riding these types of fleets in New York, New Jersey & WESTCHESTER COUNTY.👍✅
Thanks for the ride
Amazing coverage
Thank you for stopping by and watching!
I remember this make and style during my teen years in the 70s...
Ok I thought I was going crazy, all the other videos had the exhaust on the bottom, but i remember as a kid in the 80s loving to sit in the back and watch the smoke come out the top, which is the way Chicago busses were
I miss the sound of these " hill climbers " . Growing up in San Francisco , these were the workhorses of the fleet . The Muni Railway originally had 370 of these in 1969-70 . In the 1980s , about 150 of these belonging to them were rebuilt with handicapped devices installed . They were renumbered from 3500-3649 as I recall and lasted until around 1992 .
OMG!!! I was a kid in Baltimore MD we used to ride these. I came here to see and hear the 3 things you nailed. The fare box, the overhead grab bar and the sound of the engine! I was told that the engineers slanted the side windows to calm the passengers boarding as to suggest the bus was always on time!
@RyanBomar, FYI the last Canadian built New Looks were built in London, ON in 1986 for Santa Monica. However, few were built after 1983 as the Classic got introduced. My local transit systems, OC Transpo and STO got the last of theirs in 82 and 83 respectively. Also, from mid-76 onward Canadian Jimmies’ transmissions switched to Allison 3 speeds that made heavenly sounds.
Great memories of these in NYC as a kid. They looked spectacular in the light gray (metallic) and dark blue NYC Transit livery. I remember playing with the window knobs, sliding them open & closed. Constantly pulling the STOP cord, and listening to the seats and interior rattle on bumps, etc. I do remember disliking the back row seats even though they had a window to see back then, as those seats just got so dam hot to sit on in shorts due to the engine! I heard some of these didn't have power steering either, I couldn't imagine! Thanks for the roadtrip back in time, liked and sub'd, watching from the South Bronx in NYC.
I’ve believe this bus were originally owned and operated by Chicago Transit Authority in 1974. If you take notice of the flyers and advertisements in the light fixtures, it all represents Chicago.
🔴 I remember this beautiful buses in the 80s at Miami Springs. Fl.
Great video, I miss Driving these Buses for New Your City
This reminds me of my childhood I used to love riding these buses
Very neat bus!
Thanks for the many memories. Having grown up in Boston during the late 50s and 60s, I remember when the Fishbowls started replacing the antique busses and street cars. Then I spent about 40 years in southern California (Burbank, Glendale, Tujunga, La Crescenta, Montrose, etc.).
Wish I could have been on board for this trip!
6:43 Man, I need him as a driving teacher
That steering wheel is a good arm workout :)
No doubt about that!
AWESOME 😊
Thank you very much for posting this enjoyable video! I remember riding on these GM New Look model fishbowl buses as a child in New York City, Boston and other areas in the Northeast and as a young adult in cities in Canada when visiting and traveling up there. This bus you have is in great condition and appears to run well. I like the cushion seats. If I'm in the area sometime I would enjoy checking it out.
Thank you for taking me down memory lane big time!! When I lived in Denver Colorado many years ago loved those buses by RTD transit and had flixible buses as well thank you very much!!
How cool is this, my old high school a year after I graduated....those old buses been around for almost 30 years before this film was made....I think these buses were built right after WW2 ended.
Nice bus and it's sounds awesome
Dang! I drove these classics for almost three decades in Denver until they retired the last of them.
The Detroit Diesel was loud, little smokey, but goodness the sound. ❤
best footage ever works great in VR mode LOVEIT thank you
I remember these old busses running around Tacoma when I was a kid. Probably rode on this bus a time or two.
GMC needs to make a comeback with the fishbowls and RTS same engines
Yeah really, considering these days it's pretty much all gillig and new flyer. I hear nova is gonna leave the USA market
I think the buses in the 70s were a lot fancier compared to bus nowadays
I like the manual windows that you could open. Especially when someone on the bus farted. Todays bus if someone fart everybody has to suffer.
Sooo cool Ryan! 😍 much better than the Leyland 25 old clunker I went to school on. Thanks for sharing this experience.
Thanks for watching! Yeah, these had a certain art form to them, they certainly weren't generic.
Awesome bus , I rode plenty of those in Edmonton AB. ..we even had the electric trolley busses , man they had a lot of torque .
I rode most of Ottawa’s fleet of 74-82 builds in high school and university and early in my work career in the 90s until the last 13 were retired in 2007. I still miss them. STO did keep their 7901 in revenue service around the National Capital Region until 2017.It was the last fishie in use in Canada.
Wausau Area Transit System ended up with the last order of GMC T6H-4523N buses in 1977.
When bus was a bus not all cheap plastic bus of today where you can feel the engine
awesome video!
i remember riding these to murphy's dept. store with mom back in 71-72
Surprised to see a Johnson bar parking brake on a 74. Vancouver BC had a bunch of T6H-4523N’s that had a VH9 replaced with a V730. I work with two fishbowls in my local museum. 1964 TDH-4519 (updated to 4523 specs) and a 1982 T6H-5307N with a 6V92TA. Keep up the good work with your bus.
I drove many of these GMC 'New Looks' for the 'Campus Bus Service' at Kent State University in 1975-76 (and some 'Old Looks' at Kent, also, including the GMC Old Look bus that was in the movie, 'The Graduate.') CBS busses were driven entirely by KSU students trained extensively at the time to drive these transit busses on and around campus, and around Kent, Ohio and was allot of fun...!!!
I would love to take a ride on that bus!
Why take a ride... when you can drive it 😏
Holy rpm batman
I loved driving those on the freeway. Seattle Transit.
The spanish ad from Postres Royal from Nabisco also runs in San Juan AMA units inside and outside the bus
Nostalgic!
It was instantly stepping back in time!
I remember those, Akron Metro used to have them.
Cool bus
That order was delivered in June 1974 bus numbers 370-381.
Ben Franklin Transit here in Tri Cities, Washington had new looks in their fleet, but they kept the 40 footers the longest. Those busses had 8v71s in them.
Greyhound had a lot of these back in the day running from San Jose to San Francisco.
like bus
Two stroke Diesel? Your bus is great!
Driving one for an 9 hr shift. Is no fun I can only imagine how a driver felt after a long shift at work. I feel the beat down after a Gillig 😅
I love the video
I always thought GM should have put 3 speed automatics in these. I remember as a kid riding these to school in Detroit . Detroit's had bench seating and many had a Detroit 8v71 in them with rear roof air conditioning.
Again, me being so used to seeing planes on your channel, I was sarcastically like "wow, that's a weird-looking plane!"
Haha, I love that comment!
Thanks for checking out the non-aviation content too.
❤
Wow 2 speed transmission it’a like hydraulic with overdrive
I wonder how much dirt would come off the steering wheel if I wiped it with alcohol.
I thought something was wrong with the transmissions in MARTA buses in Atlanta. They would only shift one time.
Sure got some good get up and go for a Non Turbah 180hp 6v71. I want to know the gearing in the rear. It's almost chasing cars.😄🙋🏻♂️
The Green limousine
Wish i could of seen this. You passed by my house litteraly
Oh wow, what a trip! If I happen to join him again on the same route, I'll try to give you a shout prior.
Mine too!
Boy I do remember this I r born in 1961 I remember that it had now power steering and no air condition back than
What was it like on that gmc bus?
It was like stepping back in time, pure class.
These buses ran in my city up until 2015. Was sad to see them go :(
That’s still a good run for such oldies but goodies.
Wonder why they were retired after being used into this moderne era
Be kinda fun to turn one of these into
An RV
much more stylish as well
Kenosha Transit (now Kenosha Area Transit) had 24 GMC T6H-4523N buses delivered in 1975. Last of them were retired in 2004.
What year did they retire their rts busses
@@jimmytrussel488 2005
@@beepbeep3000 thanks alot
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I love the Fishbowls, which is why I watched this. But what are all the purple trees? I'm in NJ and we don't have them here. Thanks.
Very cool. I was enjoying it until I seen the sheeple donning their obedience masks.... But thanks for the video & for saving that bus from the scrap yard. :-)
This sounds great
And that loud signal
General Motors nunca ter pensado duas vezes na importação para o Brasil esses ônibus gmc nos anos 50 a 90 e era existir aqui no Brasil em utilizações nos transportes escolares e também urbanos! Esses tipos de ônibus são mais resistêntes e bonitos que tem parabrisa insana e as janelas laterais com as colunas inclinadas.
Do you still own that bus? Would love to get a down the memory lane ride in the future when in the valley
Just wonder, if you want to drive your private coach, should i get some special driving license? In my country you have to open "category"- A for motorcycle, B for cars, C for trucks, E for buses. How it's work is US?
Hermoso, quiero uno así, quiero manejarlo, jugar a que soy el chofer de un bus
Leather seats? That had to have been in service as an express bus.
Here you can compare to a typical same era german transit bus (Munich public traffic) by MAN: th-cam.com/video/FYdm1Bq7Lao/w-d-xo.html&t
Detroit Diesel engine?
Yes, 6V71N
Rifan allá los "Chimecos"
Was this the bus that Rosa absolutely roasted that goofball ?
Ironic that when you made the right onto Foothill Blvd. from Van Nuys Blvd you where on the 90 route for MTA and stayed on it most of the time till you got on the 134! I take that line alot. I would rather ride on that bus than those cramped, hard seated MTA's.
Over 14,000 lb older than 2010 that can't even be registered in California anymore