Great memoroes riding these in elementary and jr high. The sounds and the shifting from my bus driviers...was an art to watch them. Led me to my love of buses 23 yrs cdl. Such great times and field trips all over California 😊🙌🏾😎
@BuilditbrixBuilditbrix
2 жыл бұрын
Nice to see the old classics still running and sounding so sweet!
@RVRDUTY
Жыл бұрын
Sounds Amazing! Grew up riding these Crowns and Gilligs too in the 70’s and 80’s!!
@ntcrwler
My childhood was awesome! that I got to enjoy this bus and engine. Thank you!
@duhonlocklin6777
2 жыл бұрын
Hey Big Al you should do a video to teach people how to double clutch in a Crown.
@bigeyejim
2 жыл бұрын
That baby screams! I used to drive a late 80's BB AA with a V8 Detroit turbo. Loved the turbo sound.
@Tchristman100
I rode these buses late 60's and 70's. Some had Cummins NH220 (great sound too), Hall-Scott gasoline (great sound), and the Detroit 6-71. I always felt sorry for the drivers shifting all day. I now drive a Navistar school bus with 6.7 Cummins and Allison automatic. It is truly a hot rod compared to the old Crowns and Gilligs.
@TanDawg58
There were a handful of Crown "Twinkie's" still in regular service when I was in elementary school, but most were used as substitutes, with all the remaining ones in regular service being put on sub duty by the time I was in second or third grade. Most of them were sticks, but there were two or three that had an automatic transmission in them.
@elr456
Жыл бұрын
That engine sounds fantastic, it’s like I’m really there. It brings back sweet memories. I remember the day our elementary school sent us on a week long field trip camping in the Angeles National Forest.
@IKhanNot
2 жыл бұрын
Great sound.
@ewelmo3921
Жыл бұрын
I learned to drive on a Crown, we used to say if you can drive a crown you can drive anything. Now 39 years later, I'm driving Prevost and MCI Motorcoaches. I miss my crown...
@tylorevans
Жыл бұрын
Some good old school memories 2rd grade in 1997 I rode a crown school bus loved sitting in the front seat watching my bus driver shifting and the bus sounding like a race car they sure dont make school buses like they used to anymore!!
@moraez
I'll never forget that sound. I started riding these in the fifth grade all the way through 8th grade. Stopped riding when I started using the public transit bus instead. I used to love sitting in the front row as a kid to watch the bus driver double clutch shifting gears. I remember it was a 5-speed transmission. LAUSD bus # 29-U in the 5th and 6th grade. Driver's name, Mr. Wallace. Fast forward 10 years later and I became a diesel mechanic and found out why the engines have a distinct sound that only a two stroke Detroit Diesel produce. Till this day anytime I hear the roar of a two-stroke Detroit, I always turn my head to where that sound is coming from.
@danvoight9393
2 жыл бұрын
Love these Crown’s; thank you for sharing the experience!
@autonomousindividual7780
Жыл бұрын
Magic. I love it. My whole youth I heard this sound coming from the main road across the lake. Lots of trucks. Makes me wanna cry.
@danielacosta6670
2 жыл бұрын
Oh!, this bus is manual. Manual transmission. Very good!
@heathercampbell6340
Жыл бұрын
That’s a nice sounding Crown! 😁
@simongilbert2704
that does really smooth ;;
@johntrough2660
Sure brings back great memories going to high school band field shows back in the 80s.
@clarkinthedark1
The crown busses we experienced as kids had a clock/tach mounted on the dash. Normal analog clock and a sweep tach above it with a red light at the end of the sweep to let the driver know it was time to shift (as if the sonic reminder wasn’t enough haha).
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