My fondest memories of these was not in Washington DC but in New York City! in 1980 & 1981 New York City transit had tremendous then the new Grumman Flexible Buses. They were removed temporarily out of service. Now our city(NY) was on a Bus shortage. The solution: WASHINGTON D.C. to the rescue! Had spare early 1960's fleets drivers from NYCTA flew down to Washington Metrobus garage/ depot drove the fleets to New York City and placed them on many routes where the Grumann's were. I loved those Buses.(D.C) Thank you WASHINGTON DC for those Buses such a pleasure to ride them & experience them so positively. I miss these as well. The GRUMANNS return to service wasn't reliable. By 1984 with New York City Streets & roads messed up took its toll on the Buses many of them were retired out of the service & sold to other transit companies in The United States maybe Canada 🤔. They weren't bad Buses but our roads & streets were! Back to the Metro D.C. Buses as of this writing I have no scale models of this look in all gauges. Nice video & audio. 👍🚌
I inquired through DC Transit/Metrobus about purchasing retired coaches and was told they weren't for sale to the public.How do you inquire about purchasing retired buses?
Damn!!! These buses ran good wit WMATA for 35 years!!!"
My fondest memories of these was not in Washington DC but in New York City! in 1980 & 1981 New York City transit had tremendous then the new Grumman Flexible Buses. They were removed temporarily out of service. Now our city(NY) was on a Bus shortage. The solution: WASHINGTON D.C. to the rescue! Had spare early 1960's fleets drivers from NYCTA flew down to Washington Metrobus garage/ depot drove the fleets to New York City and placed them on many routes where the Grumann's were. I loved those Buses.(D.C) Thank you WASHINGTON DC for those Buses such a pleasure to ride them & experience them so positively. I miss these as well. The GRUMANNS return to service wasn't reliable. By 1984 with New York City Streets & roads messed up took its toll on the Buses many of them were retired out of the service & sold to other transit companies in The United States maybe Canada 🤔. They weren't bad Buses but our roads & streets were! Back to the Metro D.C. Buses as of this writing I have no scale models of this look in all gauges. Nice video & audio. 👍🚌
Yes they do, they also needa bring back them Neoplans (the 9500 models) back to life!!!!
@itscool1968 Nope, DC metro. Sounds like it's running over good ole DC potholes too...
nice bus!!!
Yep, a "Speed" bus.
I like this sound!!
Classic pure Classic I remember riding on that bus with my mom when I was small threw dc having the time of my life....Good times and Great memories.
Thank You
I remember riding this bus with my family back then..but that loud hissing noise really hurts my ears after my family got off the bus
This is the BLITZ, right? The NYCT had those.
6481 was recorded up in Maine.
Yes
@coreyprkr2005 Around 1999-2000...
Isn't this the same kind of bus that was on the movie "Speed"?
Is this bus preserved (#6481) or did you make this recording when the New Looks were still in service?
I inquired through DC Transit/Metrobus about purchasing retired coaches and was told they weren't for sale to the public.How do you inquire about purchasing retired buses?
These old 6400s > the brand new New Flyer D42LFA 6400s
metro wmata need to make a version of dc transit buses wma buses,ab&w transit buses,and wvm transit buses and created metrobus again.
was this in New York or California
wmata metro need to make a version gmc fishbowl buses and 111cc d-5 flxible buses.
Only NYCTA has the Blitz. Maybe another bus company did.
NABI have made Compobus similar 2 these
wen these buses retired?