OGCC Courtesy Bus

[Nosferatu]

I had bought most of an AMT School Bus that was a total mess of a glue bomb at NNL East about 15 years ago and it sat in my parts box since then. Quite a bit of it was unsalvageable due to a huge amount of glue someone used. Much of the plastic had melt marks from the old glue. I took apart as much as I could but the plastic was very brittle so I was only able to save parts of it.

Since I retired four years ago and moved to Arizona I have been going to coffee with a bunch of other retirees. Most are car guys and they love my model creations. We call ourselves the OGCC (old guy coffee club). I decided to build a courtesy bus model to honor the members. 

I took what I could salvage from the School Bus and altered it quite a bit. I added part of the roof from the Tom Daniels Street Fighter and the front from his Paddy Wagon. The headers, rear tires and wheels are from the 1/12th scale Popcorn Wagon they seemed to work. The engine needed to be large so I used a Ford 426 and the criss-cross carb set up from the Paddy Wagon.
The pics are an early mock-up and I’m not using the top of the engine and headers shown. I also made some rear fenders that aren’t shown. The front fenders (also not shown) will be widened front fenders from the Paddy Wagon.

All I have left to do is everything else!

Thanks for looking and I hope you like it.

I am always open for constructive criticism.

Dave

[johnyrotten]

Cool looking build 👍.

[stavanzer]

Great Showrod!

A clever use of some Choice Parts!

[Andria H]

I like this a lot! Great creative use of "greeblies and doodads" from other kits!

[Nosferatu]

Thanks for your comments!

Dave

[Bugatti Fan]

Badly built kits really lend themselves to bring the basis of or source of parts for creative modellers to really let their hair down for very little expense. This looks like an interesting build taking shape here.like

The C Cab fitted to part of the school bus body makes it look a bit taxi like. Looking forward to following more of this build.

Edited July 9 by Bugatti Fan