A rural school district here in Washington state (Orting) still ran two of these coaches until around the late 2010's. If parts weren't impossible to find, these coaches could serve forever. You're lucky to get 15 years out of anything built today.

That transmission sounds like an orchestra 🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻

Damn you can hear that thing comin from a mile away!

I am absolutely sure I've ridden on this bus during my school days, I'm not sure where this bus is today but I hope it still lives just as good as it does in this video :)

Love the sound of a 6-71 but this one is pretty earsplitting. I like these better with the original muffler…

this is arguably the grandparent of most modern school buses

He is having way too much fun.

when I saw my first crown, I didn't really like it… but you know what? I now realize that it has 100* the character that buses have now!

I loved riding to school on those Crown Buses. 1977 to 1988 My School District (San Dieguito in North San Diego) had Only Crowns until they switched to Gillig. In Service buses 13, 14, & 15 were early 1960's 4 speeds with angular front windows, and tail lights on the rear doors. ( i suspect they were originally 3,4,&5) 1,2,3,4 were the 10 speed Long Body Busses with wrap around Front Glass, used for Away Football Games. 5,7,8,9,10, also had Wrap around Glass. 1- 10 seemed to be 1969 to 1972 - Round Wheel Arches 16,17,18, & 21 came along in 1979 -1980 with taller passenger seats and white painted roofs Plus AM/FM All Were Manual Trans -

WHAT A BARK(!) that exhaust system has.

Rode in one of these in high school 2004-2008

I loved busses when I was a kid and it was a goal to ride the tandem axel bus. Sadly I was never able too

I think those kids are going to be early for school this morning.🏁😂

Oak Grove School District San Jose, Calif. 1979-1985, rode us to school everyday. Never noticed how loud they were!

Vroom Vroom 🏎

I grew up in Westminster in the Seventies and love these busses even though I never rode in one. OVSD had all but one conventional, and the one flatnose was a Bluebird. Apparently, they have a fleet of All American Bluebirds now, back then, each bus was different. But, I saw Crowns all over the place in other school districts and always thought they were the coolest looking busses. Also, Crown Firecoaches dominated Southern California then as well, pretty sure Westminster, Fountain Valley and Huntington Beach all used those, and I still think to this day that Crown was the best looking of both kinds of truck.

Rode in these from 84 - 91 at the Riverside & Folsom Cordova Unified Schools Districts.

Rode in them from 1974 to 1983. Ocean View and Oxnard Union High School districts.

Me recuerda los autobuses de mi escuela El rancho high school en Pico Rivera California

I wish I would of love to ride one when I was little if I was living in California.

I've said once and I'll say it again, those buses have always reminded me of elephants by their sound and appearance.

Apple Valley Unified School District… No wonder that bus is a smoker… 😂

For anyone wondering, the engine in this bus has a V6 cylinder configuration

10, sooo much better than 5! All the Crowns I worked on were 5 speeds, the Crummins had the best torque but the Detroit's sounded the best

Awesome video. I went to apple valley schools I ride #15 crown bus in Jr high school.

Damn, I wish Durham School Services had buses like this

Sweet.

Sick or not, I wouldn’t have missed a single day of school. ❤

god that bus is so loud I can literally feel its power through my phone

1981 👑 CROWN ANDEM AXLE 🚌 BUS, TEN SPEED WAILING. JIMMY 🚗 DRIVING 🚗

We never hit every gear. Every-other gear until 7th. That's with an RTO 910 not RT 910.

I think the 6L-71 was turbocharged. 6-71 was standard Detroit Diesel Engine. This crown coach sounded more like a straight pipe with no muffler. Anyway that’s good beautiful

i want to go back to school ;

1:01 Honda Civics at 1 : 30am

Giant yellow toot tube

Houston we Straightpiped the bus

This was back when a bus was a bus kids would hear the school bus coming a mile away and know to come on outside to the bus stop vs now my kids tell me I didn’t know you were even at the stop waiting for us 🤣🤣 umm yes I was I blew the horn and everything before I turned around I’m sorry but you better catch me at the next stop

Put in some extra horse power, it would become the super School Bus!

Probablemente suena como nuestros camiones de aquí que llegaban a la Merced

This is a loud crown bus

Is that one of the 97 capacity school buses?

Da hell.... was this bus straight piped?😂

Its a detroit engine crown coach bus, but its a detroit engine with turbo or without turbo ??

oh yeah where is the engine on that thing?

what is the name of this engine?

Jimmy is having too much fun 😐

El motor es más o menos como un auto fórmula de carreras correr

Cool. I attended apple valley unified years ago on tandem crowns with detroits 35 years ago. They were slow and loud

😁

Last time I've driven a 10 speed manual was in the 2014 Freightliner Cascadia back in 2019 but now they got rid of all the standard and all semi are automatic, it was fun driving manual.

Why is it so loud lol it sounds like a car with a muffler

So much noise for so little movement detriot 2 strokes for ya and heavy bus