Fourteen FABULOUS minutes in Crown #4 SCREAMING STRAIGHT PIPE 6-71 TEN SPEED.

[@terrencegoodwin446]

Love the sound of that growl when you took her under that bridge 😀💪🏾

[@aljenningscrownandgillig]

I call that the “ Echo Chamber”! Love it too!!

[@khagen50]

Back in the 1980s through elementary, intermediate and High School those busses were popular. Every time riding with my older sister down Waianuenue Avenue after school, one of those old busses would kick on the jake and wake me up. I’ve always loved diesel powered engines. As a kid, I only got to ride on gas powered busses. The first time I got to ride on the Crown buss powered by the Detroit diesel engine was awesome. That was back in 1982.

[@rantzgarcia580]

Fourteen FABULOUS minutes in Crown #4 SCREAMING STRAIGHT PIPE 6-71 TEN SPEED.

[@bikdav]

Someone needs to put a recorder at the tailpipe.

[@khagen50]

That bus sounds like a 7 second V8 racing down the drag strip!

[@aljenningscrownandgillig]

Good for a very old street racer like me! I can make lots of noise and power shift all day, and not break any traffic laws or risk any lives!!! That’s the reasoning that got me into the bus hobby

[@ianrobertsonpiano]

I absolutely love your energy and enthusiasm. Age is a number but excitement and joy is timeless. And god that engine sounds so good!

[@aljenningscrownandgillig]

Wow!! Thanks!!!!

[@theericfreeze1493]

NOTHING about this bus is bad. It sounds so good when shifting through the gears. That Detroit is pure ear candy to the point I would rather listen to that instead of music.

[@aljenningscrownandgillig]

To me it IS music. And I never tire of it!!❤️❤️

[@aljenningscrownandgillig]

It IS music👍👍👍

[@foomanshooo]

We had several Crown and Gillig coaches at Sonora High School in Sonora, CA. Almost all of them had the Road Ranger transmissions. The Crowns were all fitted with the 6-71, the Gilligs had Cat V8s in them. I used to love watching the drivers shift just like this, with no clutch. They were REAL bus drivers. Years later, I am now a transit operator, first with a bus, and now in light rail. I still dream of driving one of these old beasties, though. Childhood dreams 😌

[@jennangel122397]

AL JENNINGS You literally have the magic touch!

[@aljenningscrownandgillig]

Thank you. I sure do love driving these old gems!!!

[@WisePlagueis]

the straight six detroit with the symmetrical header arrangement is probably my favorite sounding engine ever.

[@carlosnavarro921]

Old school shifting like he's licking postage stamps, I 100% concur I'd rather be driving the ole crown than any million dollar super car any day.

[@socksumi]

Something I would never get to hear where I live. Straight piping and noise laws are so strict here.

[@aljenningscrownandgillig]

Laws are strict here too but we only drive as a hobby so nobody seems to mind

[@widsquard]

That is impressive watching you fly through 9 unsuncronized gears in traffic

[@johndeereman2009]

I love this mans outlook on life, put er in gear and smash that throttle.

[@ernstcanche5518]

Awesome video thanks for sharing your video

[@jimmyhernandez3595]

LOVED 💪💪💪

[@stevencoenen9126]

PURE BLACK EXHAUST BLOWING OUT THE PIPES.❤

[@illuminatadarlington50]

Also. It’s Crowns and Wards that just seem to run forever. Some of those buses top out at 30 years of service some districts still operate them. If they still made the parts they could probably run another 1 or 2 decades at the least

[@michaelrmurphy2734]

Amazing! How is it they were just put aside and not driven for thirty years? That Detroit Diesel sound is well remembered from the city transit buses here, back in the day.

[@tomriebau2196]

Your the best al love it.

[@mrd8720]

Is that one of the Old Corona/Norco Unified School - Laidlaw bus... #39 #49 or #50. They were used to go up to Big Bear because 9f the 10 speed Fuller transmission. I see your running around Riverside California

[@stevencoenen9126]

REMEMBER THOSE IN HIGH SCHOOL BUS IN BELLEVUE WASHINGTON STATE. ALL ENGINE NOT MUCH ROOM IN THE ROUND AREA IN BACK OF BUS PURE POWER.❤❤❤ LOVE TO GET 1 BUT OK EVERYTHING IS 🙃 MONEY 💰 🤑 💸 🙃 ❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉😊 HE IS LIKE A KIDS IN A CANDY STORE.❤ 😆 🤣

[@bikdav]

Somebody needs to put a recorder at the tailpipe of one of these buses.

[@tomriebau2196]

Your the best.

[@missdonna9896]

Better then any of the new crap today

[@illuminatadarlington50]

They don’t sound like that no more with all the EPA standards.

[@aljenningscrownandgillig]

They don’t run or drive like the new junk and they last 50 years

[@illuminatadarlington50]

@@aljenningscrownandgillig I highly doubt they even had to retire many of them. They just wanna be cool and hip with the new greener stuff. I mean I get it’s hard to maintain a bus after they quit manufacturing them. But even he really old buses probably still have service in them

[@EffieG-ez9tf]

How is it that you can shift without using the clutch? I was alwYs told that it will strip the gears.

[@chrisrush3513]

How fast did you take the ole girl up to when you got on 215?

[@KingJamalDriver]

What is that?

[@campervanbug7658]

😁

[@cidertom5140]

Shouldn’t start in third with a Detroit !!! They hate being lugged,

[@jacobsmith3409]

I love driving 10 speed too! I run KW T880 super 10 dump truck with a paccar Mx-13 and Eaton fuller 10 speed so it’s a Cadillac but that bus you have there sir is a gem in fact I would almost pay you to let me drive:)