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MaBSTOA 15
Age: 70 Joined: 27 Feb 2013 Posts: 1059
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 12:24 pm Post subject: Optical illusion or ghostly apparition |
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This is the back of 1964 NYCTA Flxible new look with batwings... or is that a GM new look in front with the wings and they are just perfectly aligned!
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frankie
Age: 77 Joined: 01 Feb 2011 Posts: 747 Location: St. Peters, Mo.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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And here is the answer:
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MaBSTOA 15
Age: 70 Joined: 27 Feb 2013 Posts: 1059
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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7753 had air conditioning
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frankie
Age: 77 Joined: 01 Feb 2011 Posts: 747 Location: St. Peters, Mo.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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MaBSTOA 15 wrote: | 7753 had air conditioning |
....and batwings!
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2421 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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An optical illusion. The other top side (at photo left) had no "batwings." That the bus was 1964 was highlighted by the 3-piece rear window arrangement. Those buses were also what I would call the "not ready for prime time" buses, given their general confinement to outer boroughs Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island (except one of the 5000's that one person swears saw some M15 [First/Second Avenue] service) while key Manhattan (and Bronx) routes operated by MaBSTOA got GM Fishbowls.
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2421 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2017 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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P.S. It looks like that Flxible in Brooklyn was running right behind a GM 'batwings' bus.
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traildriver
Joined: 26 Mar 2011 Posts: 2459 Location: South Florida
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2017 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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A little trivia... those "batwings" were ordered out into the streets during the first "big blackout" in 1965, to help provide some street lighting, after their rush hour use ended, IIRC...
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Q65A
Age: 66 Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 1769 Location: Central NJ
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2017 8:29 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for these pix! While living in Queens all those years I never saw a batwing Flx in service.
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