A rural school district here in Washington state (Orting) still ran two of these coaches until around the late 2010's. If parts weren't impossible to find, these coaches could serve forever. You're lucky to get 15 years out of anything built today.
I am absolutely sure I've ridden on this bus during my school days, I'm not sure where this bus is today but I hope it still lives just as good as it does in this video :)
I loved riding to school on those Crown Buses. 1977 to 1988 My School District (San Dieguito in North San Diego) had Only Crowns until they switched to Gillig. In Service buses 13, 14, & 15 were early 1960's 4 speeds with angular front windows, and tail lights on the rear doors. ( i suspect they were originally 3,4,&5) 1,2,3,4 were the 10 speed Long Body Busses with wrap around Front Glass, used for Away Football Games. 5,7,8,9,10, also had Wrap around Glass. 1- 10 seemed to be 1969 to 1972 - Round Wheel Arches 16,17,18, & 21 came along in 1979 -1980 with taller passenger seats and white painted roofs Plus AM/FM All Were Manual Trans -
@@sierra1005sb During you driving years, did you remember seeing any automatic transmission versions? As I recall, the one that rode on built in the late 60s was a stock automatic.
@@aljenningscrownandgillig Haha, it's funny, the non-dual rear wheel ones at our school were loud like this ... we rode on the dual wheel, and it was pretty quiet. Love these rigs. Made in the 🇺🇸 USA ❤️😀
I grew up in Westminster in the Seventies and love these busses even though I never rode in one. OVSD had all but one conventional, and the one flatnose was a Bluebird. Apparently, they have a fleet of All American Bluebirds now, back then, each bus was different. But, I saw Crowns all over the place in other school districts and always thought they were the coolest looking busses. Also, Crown Firecoaches dominated Southern California then as well, pretty sure Westminster, Fountain Valley and Huntington Beach all used those, and I still think to this day that Crown was the best looking of both kinds of truck.
Yes. The school bused today are pretty hopeless, compared to the old Crowns. Back in the day, drivers stayed on way after they qualified for retirement, just to keep driving a Crown for another day. When the Crowns went away, so did the old drivers
I think the 6L-71 was turbocharged. 6-71 was standard Detroit Diesel Engine. This crown coach sounded more like a straight pipe with no muffler. Anyway that’s good beautiful
Last time I've driven a 10 speed manual was in the 2014 Freightliner Cascadia back in 2019 but now they got rid of all the standard and all semi are automatic, it was fun driving manual.
It already has the biggest engine available at the time . Big rig Cummins Big Cam. And it’s FAST. But check out my bus #4 videos. It is tricked out👍👍👍😜
This was back when a bus was a bus kids would hear the school bus coming a mile away and know to come on outside to the bus stop vs now my kids tell me I didn’t know you were even at the stop waiting for us 🤣🤣 umm yes I was I blew the horn and everything before I turned around I’m sorry but you better catch me at the next stop
The 6-71 is a Roots-type supercharger - why would you need a turbo? (I don't know who supplied the originals, but you can get new replacements from any Banks Power reseller/dealer - Banks Power uses one of three Roots-type superchargers in their packages: 4-71, 6-71, and 10-71.) I've also thought of giving a GMC Jimmy the Banks Power treatment - and paint it the same School District Yellow - only the engine bay would be OOS. (PGCPS never had Crowns - but DID have GMC Jimmy 4x4s in their support fleet.)
A rural school district here in Washington state (Orting) still ran two of these coaches until around the late 2010's. If parts weren't impossible to find, these coaches could serve forever. You're lucky to get 15 years out of anything built today.
That transmission sounds like an orchestra 🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻
Damn you can hear that thing comin from a mile away!
this is arguably the grandparent of most modern school buses
No. Modern school buses bear little resemblance to a Crown.
@@aljenningscrownandgilligyeah well if it werent for them we probably wouldn't have buses like teh HDX and other such buses
He is having way too much fun.
I am absolutely sure I've ridden on this bus during my school days, I'm not sure where this bus is today but I hope it still lives just as good as it does in this video :)
Love the sound of a 6-71 but this one is pretty earsplitting. I like these better with the original muffler…
There's a line between throaty and trashy sounding exhausts. This is a little much . But those were strong rides.
I disagree strongly 😁
when I saw my first crown, I didn't really like it…
but you know what? I now realize that it has 100* the character that buses have now!
I loved riding to school on those Crown Buses. 1977 to 1988
My School District (San Dieguito in North San Diego) had Only Crowns until they switched to Gillig.
In Service buses 13, 14, & 15 were early 1960's 4 speeds with angular front windows, and tail lights on the rear doors. ( i suspect they were originally 3,4,&5)
1,2,3,4 were the 10 speed Long Body Busses with wrap around Front Glass, used for Away Football Games.
5,7,8,9,10, also had Wrap around Glass. 1- 10 seemed to be 1969 to 1972 - Round Wheel Arches
16,17,18, & 21 came along in 1979 -1980 with taller passenger seats and white painted roofs Plus AM/FM
All Were Manual Trans -
I drove for that district
@@sierra1005sb During you driving years, did you remember seeing any automatic transmission versions? As I recall, the one that rode on built in the late 60s was a stock automatic.
WHAT A BARK(!) that exhaust system has.
Oak Grove School District San Jose, Calif. 1979-1985, rode us to school everyday. Never noticed how loud they were!
I make quite a few of my buses louder than stock. Perhaps the buses actually WERE quieter😂
@@aljenningscrownandgillig Haha, it's funny, the non-dual rear wheel ones at our school were loud like this ... we rode on the dual wheel, and it was pretty quiet. Love these rigs. Made in the 🇺🇸 USA ❤️😀
@@waynemasters I think most of those had the 6-71 while most of the tandems had the Cummins which are quieter.
I loved busses when I was a kid and it was a goal to ride the tandem axel bus. Sadly I was never able too
Come to Southern CA. I have two tandems. Welcome to drive
Rode in one of these in high school 2004-2008
I think those kids are going to be early for school this morning.🏁😂
If you can get them out of the bus!!😀
Vroom Vroom 🏎
I've said once and I'll say it again, those buses have always reminded me of elephants by their sound and appearance.
I grew up in Westminster in the Seventies and love these busses even though I never rode in one. OVSD had all but one conventional, and the one flatnose was a Bluebird. Apparently, they have a fleet of All American Bluebirds now, back then, each bus was different. But, I saw Crowns all over the place in other school districts and always thought they were the coolest looking busses. Also, Crown Firecoaches dominated Southern California then as well, pretty sure Westminster, Fountain Valley and Huntington Beach all used those, and I still think to this day that Crown was the best looking of both kinds of truck.
10, sooo much better than 5! All the Crowns I worked on were 5 speeds, the Crummins had the best torque but the Detroit's sounded the best
Rode in them from 1974 to 1983. Ocean View and Oxnard Union High School districts.
I wish I would of love to ride one when I was little if I was living in California.
Rode in these from 84 - 91 at the Riverside & Folsom Cordova Unified Schools Districts.
Awesome video. I went to apple valley schools I ride #15 crown bus in Jr high school.
I have Apple Valley 17
Damn, I wish Durham School Services had buses like this
Yes. The school bused today are pretty hopeless, compared to the old Crowns. Back in the day, drivers stayed on way after they qualified for retirement, just to keep driving a Crown for another day. When the Crowns went away, so did the old drivers
Apple Valley Unified School District…
No wonder that bus is a smoker… 😂
No he tuck the thouttle delay off.
Sick or not, I wouldn’t have missed a single day of school. ❤
1:01 Honda Civics at 1 : 30am
1981 👑 CROWN ANDEM AXLE 🚌 BUS, TEN SPEED WAILING. JIMMY 🚗 DRIVING 🚗
god that bus is so loud I can literally feel its power through my phone
Sweet.
I think the 6L-71 was turbocharged. 6-71 was standard Detroit Diesel Engine. This crown coach sounded more like a straight pipe with no muffler. Anyway that’s good beautiful
i want to go back to school ;
Cool. I attended apple valley unified years ago on tandem crowns with detroits 35 years ago. They were slow and loud
We never hit every gear. Every-other gear until 7th. That's with an RTO 910 not RT 910.
Houston we Straightpiped the bus
Giant yellow toot tube
damn that thing sounds like a fucking race car
Me recuerda los autobuses de mi escuela El rancho high school en Pico Rivera California
Last time I've driven a 10 speed manual was in the 2014 Freightliner Cascadia back in 2019 but now they got rid of all the standard and all semi are automatic, it was fun driving manual.
This is a loud crown bus
Put in some extra horse power, it would become the super School Bus!
It already has the biggest engine available at the time . Big rig Cummins Big Cam. And it’s FAST. But check out my bus #4 videos. It is tricked out👍👍👍😜
This was back when a bus was a bus kids would hear the school bus coming a mile away and know to come on outside to the bus stop vs now my kids tell me I didn’t know you were even at the stop waiting for us 🤣🤣 umm yes I was I blew the horn and everything before I turned around I’m sorry but you better catch me at the next stop
Is that one of the 97 capacity school buses?
Yes. The biggest school bus Crown ever built
@@aljenningscrownandgillig wow that is crazy. I think the maximum they can make anymore is 90
Probablemente suena como nuestros camiones de aquí que llegaban a la Merced
Sounds like the cabover freightliner semi tractors from 1980s.
Jimmy is having too much fun 😐
😁
oh yeah where is the engine on that thing?
Amidships on its side under the floor
Da hell.... was this bus straight piped?😂
what is the name of this engine?
It’s a Detroit 6-71 2 stroke with a blower and a turbocharger plus a straight exhaust and a ten speed Eaton Fuller big rig manual transmission
Same engine used on the 80s freightliner cabover semi tractor known as Ultamus Prime.
Its a detroit engine crown coach bus, but its a detroit engine with turbo or without turbo ??
Has a turdo
@@aljenningscrownandgillig I have another doubt of the engines sounds, without turbo is louder than the turbo enginer, it stills nosier ??
The 6-71 is a Roots-type supercharger - why would you need a turbo? (I don't know who supplied the originals, but you can get new replacements from any Banks Power reseller/dealer - Banks Power uses one of three Roots-type superchargers in their packages: 4-71, 6-71, and 10-71.) I've also thought of giving a GMC Jimmy the Banks Power treatment - and paint it the same School District Yellow - only the engine bay would be OOS. (PGCPS never had Crowns - but DID have GMC Jimmy 4x4s in their support fleet.)
@@PGHammer21A Thanks for the information
@@PGHammer21A many Detroits including the 71 series had factory turbo versions, the turbo feeding into the roots blower. Example: a 6-71T vs a 6-71N.
El motor es más o menos como un auto fórmula de carreras correr
Why is it so loud lol it sounds like a car with a muffler
They are naturally loud but I like to make them very loud. Memories of race cars I drove when I was young, but without breaking any speed laws!!😜
@@aljenningscrownandgillig interesting, thx for letting me know lol
So much noise for so little movement detriot 2 strokes for ya and heavy bus