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Bus
« on: May 05, 2012, 04:00:49 AM »
Rat rod this!



Or reproduce a real one to full Hot August Nights standards, and go cruising on summer weekends.

Isn't this bus a lovely?
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Re: Bus
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2012, 04:02:35 AM »
If you're into that sort of thing... ;)
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Re: Bus
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2012, 05:03:23 AM »
love those Humbug busses  :-*

this one's nice too

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Re: Bus
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2012, 05:05:00 AM »
We need a Mad Max version

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Re: Bus
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2012, 09:48:45 AM »
   MAN-MAX

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Re: Bus
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2012, 09:51:12 AM »
Not sure why the wire-cutter on this first one ... must be something to do with driving in France ???

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Re: Bus
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2012, 09:53:19 AM »
a few more modern ones ...

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Re: Bus
« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2012, 11:03:58 AM »
For some reason, this whole thread reminds me of an "article" in Nation Lampoon's Encyclopedia of Humor, "Battle Buses of World War II".  Mind you, that came out 38 years ago, but certain items in that publication definitely stuck with me (the faux VW advert, especially).

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Re: Bus
« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2012, 08:53:56 AM »
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Re: Bus
« Reply #9 on: January 01, 2013, 10:29:02 AM »
The bus in this image http://militarymodels.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/Reichs-Bus.jpg got me to wondering what it would look like with the running gear from one of the larger German Sd.Kfz series half-track vehicles. 
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Re: Bus
« Reply #10 on: January 01, 2013, 02:08:38 PM »
They did build a few ½-track offices ..... this one below is one of six built for the German coast-guard in 1943.

I have seen a model of an Italian WW2 (FIAT ?) bus body on a Maultier chassis ... looked sexy !

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Re: Bus
« Reply #11 on: January 01, 2013, 02:30:58 PM »
Raffif,

That bus is kind of stumpy looking in that image you shared, looks like it was based on one of the smaller 1t 1-ton class Sd.Kfz. 10 or 3-ton class Sd.Kfz. 11 half-tracks.  I was imagining that with the much longer bus body in that image I linked that it might be better to use a larger vehicle such as the 5-ton class Sd.Kfz. 6, 8-ton class Sd.Kfz. 7, or maybe the 12t Sd.Kfz. 8.  Just what you would need to go over-landing in style :)
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Re: Bus
« Reply #12 on: January 02, 2013, 02:49:57 AM »
For some reason, this whole thread reminds me of an "article" in Nation Lampoon's Encyclopedia of Humor, "Battle Buses of World War II".  Mind you, that came out 38 years ago, but certain items in that publication definitely stuck with me (the faux VW advert, especially).


I vaguely remember that one. Here's one of the drawings (in Popular Mechanics style):


Battling buses of World War II - next stop: Fuhrerville!

from http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130175&page=2

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Re: Bus
« Reply #13 on: January 02, 2013, 03:06:09 AM »
I vaguely remember that one. Here's one of the drawings (in Popular Mechanics style):


Battling buses of World War II - next stop: Fuhrerville!

from http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130175&page=2


Little boy: "Grandpa, what did you do in the war?" 

Old man: "I was a door gunner on an assault bus."

The stuff that dreams are made of in some of those old graphic illustrations from PM, PS, and MI. 
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Re: Bus
« Reply #14 on: January 02, 2013, 03:43:41 AM »
a couple of my perverted ideas .....



postwar Mk.I armoured bus for London commuters who never got over the threat of bombing by Zeppelin ....

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Re: Bus
« Reply #15 on: January 02, 2013, 03:52:24 AM »
a couple of my perverted ideas .....



postwar Mk.I armoured bus for London commuters who never got over the threat of bombing by Zeppelin ....


Ideal solutions for car-jacking and potholes in many of the larger metropolitan areas  :)
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Re: Bus
« Reply #16 on: January 02, 2013, 04:21:38 AM »
Me love me some Tundra (type) Bus

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Re: Bus
« Reply #17 on: January 02, 2013, 04:50:20 AM »
When some of our family from the UK came visiting this summer, we went on one of those up onto the glacier Scoot'.  they're made by Foremost

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Re: Bus
« Reply #18 on: January 02, 2013, 04:55:46 AM »
The family did the Columbia Ice Fields tours in 2004. The bus trip started off down a 45o slope. Put your hands in the air.  ;D

Two of these buses are/were shipped to Antarctica.

It's called the Terra Bus.
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Re: Bus
« Reply #19 on: January 02, 2013, 07:57:35 AM »
It's called the Terra Bus.


You got the spelling wrong ... should be Terror Bus ! ;D

Actually I can see that U.S. Assault Bus as part of a Cold-War Allied pre-emptive strike on Russian control of East Germany .... bus heads into Berlin & crashes thru Checkpoint Charlie taking over the control-point.  Others head east as part of a cultural-visit by a military orchestra ..... over the Gleineke Bridge .... attack various Soviet check-points & bases along the way .....

Imagine the same mad colonel from Dr Stangelove transferred to a West German base  ;D ;D
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Re: Bus
« Reply #20 on: January 02, 2013, 08:00:43 AM »
Here's that Italian Maultier model I mentioned, an armoured Israeli "school-bus" & the armoured Winebago ....

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Re: Bus
« Reply #21 on: January 02, 2013, 08:06:52 AM »
The armored Winnebago is awesome!  Looks a bit anemic with the small wheels.  Maybe better if it were build around something larger like a five tonner with AWD? 
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Re: Bus
« Reply #22 on: January 02, 2013, 08:46:59 AM »
yeah, bigger wheels would be better for off-road but it did survive a near miss by IED in Iraq.  A bus company bought a few of these for the less friendly areas of Nthn Ireland.

Here's a weird one ... the "Decapitator" !!  made during WW2 to transport US workers to factories - plywood body.


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Re: Bus
« Reply #23 on: January 02, 2013, 08:50:12 AM »
Here's that Italian Maultier model I mentioned, an armoured Israeli "school-bus" & the armoured Winebago ....

My wife's Dad was in the Brit Army, when they were stationed in Hong Kong she told me they used to go to school in armoured buses everyday, and sometimes the window plates had to be in position.

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Re: Bus
« Reply #24 on: January 02, 2013, 09:31:40 AM »
Looking at that snow coaches article, you could easily build something like this from the Dapol (ex Airfix) railbus kit and some tank parts:





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