Yeah well they are still out there. I used to watch these videos in replay as a kid our family has a large school bus company and I’ve grown up all my life to this day around buses some internationals some blue birds a lot of Thomas an old Wayne or two and a bunch of t444es and now Cummins Detroit and Mercedes diesels used in the older Thomas buses

i rode on those back in 97 98 bb 9.0 5 speed and thomas 9.0 automating.

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Very good engines!!!

LOL, I used to be that way too when I used to ride the bus 3rd grade and below. I was very fortunate, though, that just about ALL the buses in the fleet I rode as a child were hydraulic brake.

Railroad Skater same here

J.J. Gillmen loved that sound every time my bus driver would stop the bus

I was the kid who always sat in the front seat. Best part of going to school was riding the bus. Loved the S1800 Bluebirds we had. Hillsborough County schools bus 1888 and 1924 were the two s1800’s I rode.

Me too! the first time I was totally unprepared and it scared the shit out of me, so i'd watch the driver to see what she did to make that noise so I could be prepared next time

These were good buses, but very loud

The rear door buzzer is supposed to work.

@@bgasales I think you missed the point of my comment. the kids in the back of the bus sometimes liked to pull the emergency exit handles, and they always got in trouble for it.

When he pulled that park brake something inside me got nervous 🤣

Indeed they did, it was the standard engine in the S1800 chassis until late 1986 when it was replaced by the DT360 engine

I loved the 9.0L

@@bgasales its got such a snorty growl to it

Depends on if the radiator cooling fan is on. The noise is mostly just fan.

wonderful buses... but very loud engines.

Many schools were running all automatics in the 70s. I know one school that started buying them in 1969. The oldest bus I have personally owned with an automatic was a 1959 Carpenter 72 passenger forward control coach from Jackson, Michigan. It had a 302 six cylinder that got 2 mpg, and a 100 gallon fuel tank. They knew!! This Carpenter bus was built on a GMC chassis. It came with a 4 speed Truck Hydro-matic. The shifter was patterned like the old Pontiac Bonneville and Star Chief. N - D - 3 - L - R In L, you had 1st and second gear. It was a very quick shift into 2nd, and you often couldn't even feel it. The transmission was designed to have slippage in 1st and 2nd. The bus would not creep forward when in drive. Reverse was all the way down, just like on many GM cars back then. I started kindergarten in 1959. I think my school had some automatics even back then. We had a couple of women drivers, and they got automatics. The men got 4 and 5 speed manuals. My school had almost all Chevrolet Superior buses, up to the time I graduated in 1972, There were 2 Fords with Wayne bodies, and 2 Internationals with Bluebird bodies, and 12 Chevrolets with Superior bodies... all the way through high school. I have always been fascinated with school buses!! Busitis... a disease.

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They are similar but bluebird also made a style like that.

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Or the ISL Cummins. OR gasoline engines, propane engines, natural gas engines, or full electric. Bluebird uses a Ford-based engine. Thomas and IC use a GM-based engine. The Ford is doing better, from what I am seeing.

Not easy to find, anymore. I don't know of any school still running them.

BGASchool BusesInc what about with the motor ? Because someday I would like have my own bus in my country Panama but with 9L S1800

BGASchool BusesInc by the way thanks

They have them here and there a few as a bus or a construction truck more likely.

Diesel Power amazing I’m from Panama center of America and we had this kind of buses and we modify it and paint it I love 3800 9L

Strasburg1991 very well maintained

You obviously have never owned a 9.0L International and driven it on the highway.

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No way. It went to Ghana. When shipped, it was full of parts and a spare engine. I am sure it is still running, or the owner would have told us he needed a replacement.

These old 9.0L diesels were as fuel efficient as it got. You could run flat footed all day long and still get 11 mpg. I had one, once, with a 5 speed transmission and hydraulic brakes, a 72 passenger Superior, that got 14 mpg. These engines were truly the best fuel mileage engines I ever saw in a bus. Detroit Diesel called their 8.2L a Fuel Pincher. These 9.0L Internationals went 2.5 or 3 mpg better than the 8.2. Your comment shows that you never owned one.

I have been in 2-4 different international 9.0l buses growing up and i will say 11-14 mpg is poor and bad compared to 25mpg cars gasoline some diesels can get better mpgs than what you have listed. I never owned one 9.0l and i am not planing to as it's old and parts are gonna be very hard to find. They have other diesel trucks that are better than this 9.0l international.

@@dieselpower4665 compared to what some school bus engines have these days this is a gas saver I think the vt365 and dt444e only got between 7-10 and cummins isb got around 10 so think about it, it kinda is a gas saver

I loved the 9.0L, but it was definitely loud. Almost all of these got exported. They left the country. The reason was simple. They were VERY fuel efficient!!! 11 mpg with your foot on the floor all day.

@@bgasales lol slow and loud definitely polluting the airs. I know these were non turboed buses. The 7.3l PowerStrokes are the one of the kinds.

It wasn't scrapped. Those old 9.0L V8 diesels are still wanted in Africa, and there are people in this country who still love 11 mpg