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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 22617 Location: NEW JOISEY
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Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:16 pm Post subject: Sedan door-Fishbowl...NOT your average GMC! |
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...something tells me that sedan door-equipped Fishbowls were NOT the most commonplace coaches on the streets, back in the old days!! This DOMENICO Fishbowl, caught on film back in 1975, shows off its "sporty" sedan door.....GMC "custom job"? "In house" customization by Domenico? Your guess is as good as mine on THIS one, my friends! http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2292 |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 22617 Location: NEW JOISEY
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Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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For comparison, here is another DOMENICO Fishbowl with the usual folding doors. Sedan doors were of course commonly used on GMC highway coaches (such as the 4104 and 4106), but, as to why such a door was installed on a Fishbowl, I can only speculate.... http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2295 |
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roymanning2000
Age: 75 Joined: 01 Aug 2007 Posts: 198
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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:42 am Post subject: |
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Last week, there was a thread about those sedan door-equipped fishbowls on the Surface Transit-Canada forum here. That door was a Canada-only option.
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:33 am Post subject: |
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roymanning2000 wrote: | Last week, there was a thread about those sedan door-equipped fishbowls on the Surface Transit-Canada forum here. That door was a Canada-only option.
Roy | Hi, Roy: I'll have to check that out! Had no idea other Fishbowls were so equipped; certainly, a sedan door is NOT what you'd normally picture being used on a Fishbowl!Thanks again for the tip! John |
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HwyHaulier
Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Posts: 932 Location: Harford County, MD
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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:27 am Post subject: |
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John -
"If you build it, they will come"? (Field Of Dreams (1989), James Earl Jones)
...................Vern................ |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 22617 Location: NEW JOISEY
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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 11:16 am Post subject: |
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HwyHaulier wrote: | John -
"If you build it, they will come"? (Field Of Dreams (1989), James Earl Jones)
...................Vern................ | I would be a "fool's fool" if I dared argue with that logic.....<G> |
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Dieseljim Deceased
Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 548 Location: Perry, NY
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:47 am Post subject: Sedan Door Fishbowls |
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Charterways of Ontario had them, Murray Hill of Montreal,PQ had them, (I saw one in Washington,DC back in the fall of 1970 at Arlington National Cemetary), and Canada Coach Lines had a good number of them. At least one or two of the ex Murray Hill fishbowls equipped with the Sedan door wound up at D&F Transit of Fredonia/Buffalo,NY, which picked up four or five fishies for use on the Buffalo-Jamestown route. Those CCL buses with the sedan doors were 1941,1943,1945,1947,1949,1951,1953,1955,1957,1959,1961,1963,1965,1967,
1969,1971,1973,1975,1977,1979,1981,1983,1985,1987,1989, and the
consecutively numbered group of 1991-1997. These buses were the workhorses of Canada Coach Lines fleet for many years. The last ones were sold off in the 1980s when the MC5Bs took over. |
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TheDriver
Joined: 18 Dec 2015 Posts: 233 Location: America
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Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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I think they were ugly They should have had square windows to match the driver's side |
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