Manteca Unified School District # 27

Gillig Classic School bus
1971
220 Cummins
5 speed transmission

[@matthew-dv8gv]

Love the sound of these late 60s and early 70s Cummins Gilligs and Crowns. Wish Thomas, Blue Bird and IC CE sounded exactly like this.

[@johnbarnes1508]

One of ripon unified buses was exact copy of this bus and you just can't find another engine that sounds like the Cummins

[@ecphorizer]

As you're waiting to pull onto the road, what was that pneumatic switch on your left? In Los Altos in the early 50s we had a Gillig fleet of 17 buses. Mine was probably a 1948-9 model rear-engine job (had the two-pane window in the rear, FI-RO front doors), and she was a creaky cranky, bus had a lot of hills to climb, sharp corners to turn, but nothing fazed our driver. (front in - rear out)

[@ab6485]

It was the brake release switch