Love the old manual transmission School buses. As a kid riding the bus to school, I sat up in the front seat just to watch the driver drive the bus. Once in awhile there would be a substitute driver who really didn’t know how to drive a stick , he or she would grind the gear and sometimes kill the engine 😆 The good old days of school buses

This right here is what made me want to be a bus driver. I used to ride a Ward with Chevy 5sp. Same motor as this and I would sit up front just to watch the driver drive and I always knew when it was time to change gears. I could close my eyes and know where we were on the rout just the gear gears changing. Needless to say I learn to drive on a 1989 Bluebird Chevy 5spd. I cried when the put me in my first automatic

Brings back memories from elementary school

Those are the best shifting transmissions. That's when driving a bus was fun, now it's just a job lol

My elementary school's fleet at the time (94-00) was mostly compprised of these, even though some of the newer ones were diesel. Brings back memories... I remember one kid on my route had a stop right on the middle of a steep hill. The driver had to keep it in first until she got to the top of the hill and even as a 7 year old, I thought the engine was going to blow some day 😅

Awesome video my guy! There's not a bunch of driving videos of these masterpieces with gasoline engines.

I love the sound of it

Beautiful motor in this old girl. Identical to the one that was my 86 gmc 6000 the first year i drove school bus. When i started our entire fleet was manual transmission and we loved them. Took us alot of getting used to when they switched us all to the automatics, would still look for the clutch with my left foot in the automatic.

I absolutely love the engine and transmission sound 🥰

Brings back memories of the '86 Chevy BB I rode as a kid

Reminds me of Bus 7 Mrs Schaefer drove. CV200 had an automatic though but all the sounds are spot on!.

We had a few of these in my district. That sound brings back memories!

This is great and like someone else said earlier in a comment, there aren't enough of these videos out there with these buses. I like the ones from the 70s that sounded like this, along with the trucks that used to be out there, which also had this sound, but with a more pronounced wine in the first gear.

This a 1997? This bus sounds damn good to me sounds better then a lot of these newer ones if say

I think this bus sounds like the gas engine busses I would occasionally ride as spares. I started going to school when gas busses were being phased out in the late 80s in McDowell Co. West Virginia.

Cool vid! Same drivetrain as my '95 Kodiak dump truck. I love that Eaton 5 speed transmission, they shift like a car. They have a heavy mechanical clutch though.

Awesome video! Wooow!! Suuure take s me back to child hood.

Although CVs were so common up here, not sure how many got gassers up here. Always loved the styling of these

How big is this bus? 40 feet? "35 feet? This bad boy sounds like the Bluebirds from the 80's at the camp I used to go to. :-D

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My schools fleet up to 2015ish mainly consisted of these buses. One was a GMC, which was the only manual

Rode a Chevy bus in early 70's with 427 and 5 speed. Our driver knew how to work that big block.

Like Maruice River Township Schools

Dang! That bus sounded like my high school bus 110 and it was a Wayne Chevy school bus.

What? This engine existed in 1997? I did not know that.

Excellent video. This is my favorite bus. I wonder what tires this bus uses.

One video that has NEVER been on YT is ANY cv200 with the cat 3116 with the AT545

1:46 School bus5😊

The rarity of these buses is why I’ll most likely never sell my 2 diesel cv200’s

Is it still in regular use as a school bus?

5:13 TIRES SQUEAL

9:57 wheel spin?

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Is It CDL Or Non CDL Bus

Ford 7.3 Godzilla