Reply #68: Hey! I Had A Blue Bird School Bus [View All]

GM everything, Blue Bird body. I think it was a 1976.

From 1987 to 1998, my band used it as an equipment truck. We took all the seats out of it (save the two rows closest to the front), painted all the windows white, from the inside, put a plywood wall in behind the 2nd row of seats, and had a 8 foot by 27 foot area to haul and store our gear. (We had 4.5 tons of equipment!)

The first year, we spent an average of $130 per week to rent a truck. The gas was a wash, since the bus needed gas too! But, we spent $600 on the bus, spent $700 a year on insurance, and $160 on plates. So, we spent more than $5000 the first year renting stuff, then spent about $12000 over the next 11 years for the same thing.

Best part, aside from the huge savings, was that at the end of the weekend or night, we didn't have to move the equipment again. We just stored everything in the vehicle, in a lot across the street from the police station.

Man, what a lifesaver that old Bluebird bus was.
The Professor