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!