OGCC Courtesy Bus Finished!

[Nosferatu]

I had finished this a month or so ago but didn't take any pics until the other day.

As I had written in the WIP thread, I had bought 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 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 Guys Coffee Club). I decided to build a courtesy bus model to honor the members. 
I took what I could salvage 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.
I scratch built the coffee mug on the top of the grill along with the rear bumper and taillights

Thanks for looking and I hope you like it.

Dave

[bob29579]

That is really nice.

[espo]

Truly creative use of your parts stash. Fun looking at this and picking out where each part may have come from. With the paint work and how you fit everything it looks like you followed the instructions from one of the Charly Daniels kits of old. 

[PappyD340]

Very nice build!

[bondo bill]

that's wild, kool

[ChrisR]

Cool!

[Nosferatu]

On 9/27/2025 at 10:24 AM, espo said:

Truly creative use of your parts stash. Fun looking at this and picking out where each part may have come from. With the paint work and how you fit everything it looks like you followed the instructions from one of the Charly Daniels kits of old. 

Thanks espo!

Yes there are many parts from many different kits.

Dave