Sleeping in my feelings Sick 😫 emergency room

🇨🇦 Nice Real School bus..The new Busses don't have the same feeling of the road Yes the newer bus are up to date..There missing the old world class Thankyou for the History and ride along

Now Rick, I am glad I stumbled on this video because I am still a fan of Ward buses. One thing that also causes a bus to warm up slower or not want to start properly is that there could be some stuff such as dust and dirt close to either the carburetor, the fuel pump might also may have some dirt caked on it as well. As I was watching WD Detailing, RJ who is always seen on that channel demonstrates that some steel wool could make the handle shine like it used to when the bus was new! Now if you go over the engine with some degreaser, and knock all the dust and dirt out of there, that should help it warm up quicker. Sometimes a good flush out with going over the engine with a blower, you should be safe.

So if this is gas powered you can operate this in California

wonderful video!!!

You still have the GMC

Hi Ricky.....That was great vidio of you. That is a very special bus it was your Grandma's bus! Your great driver to. ❤️❤️

Put berrymans carb cleaner in it that carb is popping something crazy geezw

Ok. Now for those who are also new to these older buses, right at 0:44, we see almost a universal design for the door handle. I think it is where Ward had its own link to run from the handle to the door, but I have seen that kind of handle design on Ward, Superior, Wayne, and Carpenter. In those days when many of these buses were built, the customer told the company how they wanted the bus to be built. This one has the jackknife door. They also had the option for having the windshield wipers hanging from the top. The type of transmission this has is what is called a "Progressive" transmission. That means all 5 speeds are usable. A compound transmission like we see on many of the buses that are older than this one had, is where you have what is called the "Deep Under" gear in 1st. With a compound box, you may have 5 speeds, but only 3 or 4 of them are truly usable due to that 2nd on a 5-speed is can be a regular under gear than a direct gear. Also seen as an option is the indicator for the overhead blinker lights. Those would flash when the overhead lights are flashing.

Any hard starts coming soon? ☺️

hi

Do you still have the GMC Ward?

Lo que mas me gusta escuchar de ese bus, es el ronroneo, el rugido que tiene cuando lo aceleran, y empieza a andar.

Disculpe: la primera de ese bus, con motor a gasolina, no es hacia adelanté? Pues tengo entendido que esos Buses, con motor diesel, es hacia atras.

Oldie but GOODIE!!!!! I LOVE those straight rows of pine trees in front of where bus was parked.

Great video. Being a bus nut, I'd like to see a video tour of that vintage Superior Coach sitting next to it.

Can you make a video like this one but with a manual bus and can you the shifting gears and clutching as well

I'll never forget the GMC bus we sometimes ended up with during my 2nd grade year of elementary school. Our school district in Bay County, Florida had just retired all the gas powered Ford, Chevy and GMC buses (they were all 4-speed automatics) for Blue Bird Internationals with the 7.3 IDI diesel engines. They kept the gas powered buses for spares (and my 2nd grade year of elementary school was plagued with problems with the new diesel buses, so we frequently had a gas powered bus and it was usually bus # 340 which was a gas powered Ford, but occasionally we'd end up with a GMC gas bus). I always thought they were so damned slow and it seemed like my bus driver had the pedal to the floor 90% of the time just to get into traffic. They might've been super slow (a snail could move faster than those old gas powered buses), but they were quite reliable for having a 4-barrel carburetor.

I've been a school bus driver for 30years and had many buses over these past 30 years but my old bus 4 was the exact model of this bus in your video and I loved it.

I put a video of my bus on you tube... I hope you'll check it out

I'd like to see you drive that superior bus too!

These are the type of buses I rode when I first started school in 1992. I remember the manual transmissions

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any more videos of your bus? What about the other one?

This should have been powered by a Diesel engine...like a DD 6V53!

Hey Ricky... My name us Jim... We have a 1968 GMC carpenter 66 passenger bus we have a camper made into... 75,000 original miles... Still runs and drives really good...

Crossed wires or tuliped intake valves.

Hi Ricky. I just bought my 85 Chevy Ward I rode in high school. 366 gas engine, hydraulic brakes, 5spd.

I remember that annoying beep from my dad’s 88 gmc 7000. It was incredibly annoying.

that bus should a been plug in during the cold winter months it has a block heater in them buses and set the timer on them to

Your grandma must really love you

I rode a Chevrolet Thomas in elementary school, I remember that thing having air brakes with an Allison. This brings back those memories!

Wow, your contribution sub plants the age old expression: "A picture says a thousand words" with your video "hatches a million vibes" of surrounding nuances that would otherwise escape one's aural senses. Thank you for posting so long ago, hope it remains a treasure trove for many years to come.

I wish I could've been dressed like a girl riding on these,, nice bus though

It's a shame GMC / Chevrolet, Ford & Dodge no longer make full-sized school buses. But it is nice to see gas powered buses making a comeback!

This is my new channel Rick! I could remember the low-air alarm were loud buzzers. But THESE were real school buses. Of course for those who are watching, this has what is called a progressive transmission meaning all the gears are truly usable and I think 1st is direct rather than deep under. Probably the reason why it takes longer to start is that there is probably dust and debris in the fuel pump and water pump. So if you get these things updated and want to take these on a national tour, you may want to steam clean the engine.

The first (and one of only two) Ward bus I rode to school was a Ward/Ford (also manual transmission). Typically, third (or fourth) would be deliberately skipped - (it was not a Ward issue - it was, in fact, commonplace with Ford engine busses in the B700 and F750 and B8xx series with a manual transmissions - for some reason, the F800 work trucks saw the same sort of odd behavior). I was aware that fifth gear was, in fact, an overdrive gear - was fourth gear too tall? As I stated, it was NOT unique to Ward-bodied busses - I saw it in Thomas-bodied, and even the two Superior-bodied busses with Ford engines and stick shifters. Stick busses were common when I went to school - a grand total of ONE automatic was on any school bus I ran into in school - the only Carpenter-Ford (and that creature was actually owned by the county BoE - and the number - C-2 - reflected it). While Fords were not all that common power plants during the 1970s - when I was in school - International was *far* more common - automatics were practically hens' teeth - as I pointed out, I saw a grand total of *one*. As far as bus bodies went, Thomas conventional was the most common, followed by frst Superior (both standard Superior, then Superior/Sheller) then Ward, and with Carpenter (Carpenter and Carpenter/Crown) bringing up the rear. In my old home school district, it is still Thomas (C2) out in front, followed by IC conventional, then Blue Bird, then Thomas EFX/HDX in a tie. Prince George's County? IC conventional, then Blue Bird. Thomas? Missing (that is ANY sort of Thomas), except for the odd interloping charter (as in public charter school that has their own bus). The school board owns the route buses - which also explains the dominance of IC today - it was Blue Bird that was dominant five years ago.

Manual bus...that looks like fun

That’s cool that your G-ma got to keep the bus she drove for all those years.

Bus needs a tuneup but if tuneup then it’ll run better yesss in theed

That would be cool if it were a diesel i love that it is not the same freightliner nose

Awesome vid bro! That’s the exact same bus that took me to grammar school in 1984! You still got it?

How wonderful to see and hear the sounds of an old school bus that is gas and stick shift with air brakes. I owned 6 1970s versions of GMC Superior School buses in the 90s. I miss that bus model. They no longer exist. Would love to drive one once again and smell that gas exhaust! Diesel can't compare!

Put some non ethanol gas in it. It will thank you.

Does this gmc bus use the normal square key or the round door key of General motors

Well I am back on KZbin and I still love vintage buses. This is one of the buses that seems to have the progressive box in it. And that is because 1st is a direct rather than a deep under. Rick you are still one great guy. I know that Ward was taken over by Amtran and Amtrak was taken over by IC. We need guys like you to make sure that these pieces of our transportation heritage does not end up in the scrap yard. There is a truck show in Lexington, KY coming up in the spring of 2018. I still wish I could come down to help keep these nice vintage buses running. But my finances are keeping me from coming though sadly.

Love it. Wanna sell it

I remember it like it was yesterday. The year 1985. I was in Jr. High. I remember walking to the bus stop and being picked up in a brand new bus. It was a Bluebird. It was a manual transmission, and was a Chevrolet. I remember the smell of the new bus, and the sounds of the whining transmission. I remember it was the first bus that I rode in that had brown seats instead of green.

When are you going to post a video of the 1978 bus?

This is awesome! I remember as a kid my school district had several GMC buses both Wayne and Blue Bird. The last two gone were gone by '96 or so when I was 8