I drove one of these ‘36 Whites in 1978 when I was 21 in Glacier National Park. What a great summer. Back then the busses were 4 speeds that you had to double clutch, quite the learning curve. The tour bus drivers were called Jammers (not gear jammers). The bars across the luggage compartment windows were to stop the luggage that would slide around at times from breaking the windows. As he mentioned the busses at glacier had side doors on the luggage compartment so it would fit an extra row of seats if needed for four more passengers. However, many of us Jammers put a small mattress back there in luggage compartment and would sleep there if dorm rooms too full. Didn’t take other park employees long to find out that little secret and use them for midnight rendezvous……
Love episodes like this. These vehicles don't get the appreciation they deserve. These old trucks/commercial vehicles are 1000x cooler than any lambo or whatever.
Lambos, sports cars, and Rolls etc, are mildly interesting, but have ZERO relation to 90% of actual drivers and people of today. I would much rather see normal vehicles.
I don’t know if you go to many car shows but something like this would draw all the attention away from those Italian cars or Mclarens etc. It really is fun to see all the people taking pictures of the old cars and trucks. It is easy to respect what modern cars can do but they just aren’t as intriguing.
Often, when Jay gets to see the newly restored vehicle, the restorer/owner is still putting it through its paces to find issues they overlooked in the shop or which they couldn't foresee until the car had a few additional miles put on it after the restoration. So Jay isn't pointing out flaws but rather finding issues that's still needs to be addressed that only a few test runs on the road can make obvious. No car restorer gets it 100% right the first time, unless it's already largely in exceptional working order when they bought/acquired it and they only need to do minor repair work or only body work.
My childhood was in Yellowstone and I was lucky enough to ride in one of these a few times. Such a neat piece of U.S. history. I'm so proud and thankful we have our National Parks.
Love to see these kinds of vehicles restored. Commercial vehicles are so rare, but tells our history better than just cars do and can be very beautiful as well.
If I recall correctly all of Glaciers buses except 1 (the best original) were restored by Ford in the 1990s. Ford had bought a number of other manufacturers, and one of those manufacturers had owned all the the White manufacturer rights. At that time All the Glacier buses were in need of a lot of work and many had been retired due to poor condition, Since Ford now owned all the rights they made the park a deal, and restored and modernize most of the buses, which is why they are still on the roads today. Those buses now have a small Ford emblem under the bigger White name on the front of the buses.
@@steffenrosmus9177 33 White (Red) buses in operation today. I have heard & read different accounts that all 33 buses were restored by Ford. I was told by one of the bus drivers that 32 buses were restored by Ford (Ford donated 6 million to help pay for the restorations) and 1 bus was kept original condition for display.
I rode one of those in Glacier National Park about 5 years ago. The fleet they had was overhauled and refitted by Ford Motor Company. All medium-duty Ford truck running gear. The seats were still very close together. I am a big guy, claimed the "shotgun" seat, did well. Rain came, everyone had to help roll out and anchor the tarp roof. All seniors on the ride, we had a lot of fun.
What a gorgeous thing this truck is. Just oozes nostalgia. Listening to Jay give his mechanical advice is just awesome. Jay is to cars as Gandalf is to magic. WONDERFUL episode.
What a great presentation featuring this White Yellowstone National Park Tour Bus. How lovely to see how well it has been maintained over the years and Winslow has a solid historical perspective on these buses as used in several of our National Parks. My Dad had a 1936 Black, two-door Chrysler, straight six cylinder "Businessman's Coupe" which he purchased new in that year, and it has the same "Bullet Headlights" featured on this Tour Bus. I remember riding in the car when I was quite young, and as a young adult, I partially restored it and sold it to a mechanic who wanted to restore it, and I gladly did so since the bills were becoming increasingly expensive. I trust that he did a good job with his efforts....:). Thanks Jay, for another great historical vehicle history lesson!! (Jay and I were fellow classmates at Emerson College, in Boston, and we both graduated in the Spring of 1973.). Ted Schempp, Nashville
That just looks like what it's supposed to be. I know it was literally made to be a Yellowstone tour bus, but even without the label it just looks like that is where it belongs. I'm glad people are keeping these beautiful machines going.
Jay is right, back in 1967 I traded a hand gun for a 53 Willy's Station Wagon with a flat head 4. The Willy's had been sitting in a pasture for a couple of years with the spark plugs out of it. Towed it home, tuned it up, put new gas in and it fired right up...Had a lot of fun with that vehicle.
What a great man Jay Leno is, just to imagine what it must feel to be part of his family, Jay Leno is a man that everyone loves from a small kid to a old grandpa, just like everyone loved Elvis Presley everyone loves Jay Leno.
The overland service through the desert from the late-20s through the 30s is described and illustrated fully in their book 'Nairn Bus to Baghdad', by two New Zealand brothers. It's a fascinating historical record as they pioneered many features taken for granted today e.g. state of the art tyre construction, oil filtration and above all, collaboration with the Karrier company to provide mobile air conditioning units powered by Wisconsin engines on the cab roof, for their flagship Cummins diesel powered Marmon Herrington coaches. They used only American machinery as it was tough enough to endure the severe conditions. Col, NZ.
I have a 1946 White Model 798 'suburban' coach with a 12 cylinder underfloor pancake engine in my collection. White was in Cleveland, as was the Bender Body Company. In the early years, White made the chassis and Bender made the body. White made many hundreds of city transit buses and highway coaches. Large fleets of White buses could be found in San Francisco, Chicago, Cleveland and in Washington, D. C., among many other places. I have a large collection of vintage buses. My 1945 Ford Transit has a Ford 'flat head' six engine in it. My 1951 Fagoel Twin Coach has an underfloor Fagoel engine.
My Uncle John used to work @ White Motor on east side of CLE.Our family still lives in suburban CLE area Dad & I are bus nuts we would love to see your collection am intrigued with seeing the pancake engine.👀
You should try and reach out to Jay's garage to come on the show. They have an email on the about section I think. That pancake motor would be great to see.
I really enjoyed this video. I think the cars and trucks of the 1930's were probably the best looking we ever made in this country. I love these old busses. They are very pleasant to look at and I would imagine very enjoyable to ride in. Keep up the good work Jay, you have one of the best channels on here.
_"I think the cars and trucks of the 1930's were probably the best looking we ever made in this country."_ The coolest-looking and most attractive styling cars of the mid-1950s to early 1970s WERE the best looking cars ever produced in this country
@@electrix6751 That's your opinion, putting WERE in capitals to suggest you are categorically right is a bit arrogant. 1950s were great but I agree with David the 1930s were better looking.
Wonderful show ! We were able to ride one of these buses in 1976 in Yellowstone. And to add icing on the cake, in 1978 we bought a 6.5 acre lot on what was the old White Estate in Geauga County Ohio. Still living there in the house we built. What a great connection to this video..... Love you Jay, Loni & Al
I was a Jammer in Glacier NP in 1982 and these were still powered by the original straight 6 engines and 4 speed transmissions. "Armstrong power steering" was the joke. We'd come up with our own creative ways to use a Radio Shack microphone and give a complete tour as we drove up and over the Going to the Sun Highway. Because we traveled around to the different Lodges, we carried all our belongings in a big bin in the back. Sometimes we'd sleep back there. It was one off the best summers ever. Thank you for posting this one, Jay and team!
@@10zoll Its very likely that this unit frame and body has 600k on it while the engine and trans likely has had some major overhauls. Oil back then was not great and cause major wear.
@@10zoll He's the Owner of the shop that restored it. He didn't actually work on it. His employees did. Look at the difference between Jay and him. Jay's shirt, pressed, pockets nice, tucked, belt on. This guy styled his Hair to look like he's been working hard. Short looks like he slept in it. Not tucked in, and probably can't with that gut. Which shows he sits at the desk all day. Which is the most important job at a shop. I know this personally. But dude has dressed to "Look like a working Man". And I think he wants to be a comedian. But you can see the difference in the men, the eras.
geez, commenting on his gut and otherwise tearing a nice guy dow …he wasn’t all that knowledgeable but why insult a guy based on your own bad personal experiences? that’s the internet for you.
I know a guy who had an old school bus around a 1935 or so. It was absolutely beautiful and he restored it to the way it was when it was first built. The inside had benches along the sides instead of seats like this bus has and the floor was a beautiful wood. I believe he gave it to a museum.
It's a once a week posted video. What exactly were you doing for the other 6 days, 23 hours and 30mins to "keep you going," because unless you just watched the video on repeat it's honestly somewhat difficult to really comprehend how exactly a 30min video was able to secure your wellbeing for the entirety of the rest of the week. Did you watch the video and then return to a coma-like state? How exactly did you manage to pull this off. **Asking for a friend**
@@kenbredow8727 No, not at all... Why would you assume that?! At least you have some sort of alibi for the other 6 days, 23 hours and 30 mins of the week.
@@kenbredow8727 /nod Same to you! PS. Cheers, I'll toss one or two back for you in order to help bring some equilibrium to the drinking community. Enjoy your day! PS. Still low-key wondering what Mr/Mrs. ADP is doing to occupy the rest of his time during their week considering he/she claims that this RUclips channel alone is able to satisfy his/her pandemic woes.
When I worked for the county they had two 1952 White trucks with a van body. They carried X-Ray machines and were lead lined so they were very heavy. They traveled about the county doing X-Ray checks for TB which in 1952 was prevalent then. Later we stripped out the machines and lead lining which we sold for scrap, something like 3 tons netted the county $200 which went toward their conversion. One was made into a mobile carpentry shop and the other was for the plumbers. We auctioned them off in 1985 and they were both sold for over $2000 each. They were still good runners and actually good on gas!
Worked for a company as a mechanic in the 90s and the owner had one of these that he bought in the late 80s . The shop did all the body work and removed what I thought was a Continental flat head engine and replace with a 454 Chevy and turbo400 trans. The owner would let shop use truck for events and such. Very cool and fun. Thanks Jay for showing this piece of truck history 👍
These are neat busses. It reminds me of the old Crown school busses. I drove one for 10 years and it was an incredible machine with a mid engine diesel and a 10 speed manual transmission.
Of all the celebrities Leno is the one to trust driving your precious old vehicle ! How many others have experience with a fire truck, coal truck, Dusenberg and a Bentley ? Plus Jay drives his collection, doesn’t just let them sit.
Back in the 1960's our house had an amazing panoramic photo of these same Yellowstone Park busses, all lined up at the bus shop in Gardiner, Montana (one of the entrances to Yellowstone). The photo was about 10 inches high and three feet wide. It appears to be taken just before the start of tourist season and the first bus runs of the year. The photo must have shown several hundred busses like this one. Many early tourists coming from the east either rode the Northern Pacific Railroad (which had a branch line from its Livingston depot that ran to Gardiner) or the Milwaukee Railroad which dropped people off at Gallatin Gateway, Montana. These busses picked up the Milwaukee passengers at Gallatin Gateway for the appx. 50-mile ride through beautiful Gallatin Canyon and down to West Yellowstone (another Park gate). In the 1950's and 1960's, these busses had been sold off and you'd often see them with private citizens at the wheel, running around towns near the Park. Anyway, I was transfixed by the photo and, after I moved away, it somehow disappeared from the family home. These White busses served both Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks.
Love these vehicles, and their red cousins in Glacier. Hiked down Mount Washburn (Yellowstone) earlier this month with a young man who works at Legacy Classic Trucks keeping these treasures running.
It was great to see one of these up close and in detail, though I would not have expected them to be that expensive. Those bars in the back doors are likely to prevent luggage inside from breaking the glass. Thanks for another wonderful show!
Like he said, besides going up hills, these things are kinda FUN to drive. Other than starting off, the clutch is"un-necessary" to a experienced driver who can "feel/hear" when the drive force of the gear train is "floating" (not pushing or holding back the vehicle). When there is no pressure on the gears, the transmission can be "up" or "down" shifted with absolutely no grinding if the engine RPM is exactly correct. With some practice and that "ear/feel", it's very doable and FUN!!! They were much newer than this vehicle, but the bus drivers at San Simeon in the 70's and 80's used to drive those busses up the mountain to the castle shifting so smoothly that a knowledgeable passenger was "very impressed". You could tell, those were "CRASH" boxes also!! They would downshift going up the hill gently increasing the RPM of the motor and slide into a lower gear with "silky" smooth shifts!!! It definitely was "notable"!!!
I think Jay did a nice job of explaining that the engine might be running rough because the fuel was different back in the day and the guy also said it’s tuned for 7,000 ft air , I know my ford ranger didn’t run well on unleaded gas , jay telling the guy that marvel mystery oil might help was just fine advice.
Jay made a good point about the engine temp though that argued against the carbueration being too lean. The carb might need adjustment, but I doubt it's because of the elevation. I also agree that modern unleaded ethanol ruined fuel does not work well in old pre-fuel injection engines. Heck, it doesn't work as well in modern engines as ethanol free fuel.
@@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710 I did that for a while in my 58, but as I understand it, that was to preserve the valve guides and seats. Since I don't drive it much anymore, I don't worry so much about the valve seats wearing out faster. The ethanol, though, is something I could really do without.
If you can find it, yamaha ring free works great. I run 1 oz per gallon of klotz super techniplate in my older gas engines. If you don't mind the smell of bananas, it's nice.
Now that was a fun video. I love when Jay features these "orphan" vehicles. Much more fun than a Ferrari or Lamborghini. Makes me want to visit Montana.
I absolutely love the older vehicles that are featured on Jay Lenos Garage. It really gives you a great sense for how the past has evolved into what it is today. This bus looks very well built! They sure do not make them like they used to. I love learning about history. This has been one of my favorite videos to date!
Our family visited both Glacier and Yellowstone in the summer of 2019 and both parks were running these classics. At Yellowstone, those trucks had been re-engined years ago with Ford engines, but otherwise they were pretty original. Awesome to see them packed with tourists doing what they do every day.
Wow, Jay really knows a hell of a lot about vehicles. He's not just a collector of cars and their histories, he can even analyze problems while driving it.
I live near Glacier Park, and have ridden in these a few times. They are red in color instead of yellow. They are very cool, and it's good to see them still being used in their intended role after all these years.
I’m 54 and I remember to this day the cool metal yellow bus toy I played with on my first day of school ( kindergarten). Since then I’ve always loved em. Especially the wheels:)
So let me get this right... if I describe something as incredible, that's not good enough, yes? If it's "absolutely" incredible that makes it even more incredible than just plain old standard incredible? Just checking I'm "absolutely" clear on this.
As a teenager I rode in one of these back in the 1960's when I worked at Old Faithful during the summer when I was in High School. They were still used for tours.
1936 Maiden Voyage of the New Cunard White Star liner R.M.S. "QUEEN MARY," and of course the D.C.-3 and the DLZ - 129 the " HINDENBURG," Great year for transportation.
this guy is so great. love his style: the trucks, the outfits. he's just top-to-bottom cool. his stuff is functional, classic, classy, but rugged and usable. really fits jay's attitude of a car worth owning is worth driving. he keeps these things on the road. something to be thankful for. i'm also thankful for his client's deep pockets, because I can't afford any of these things lol.
Bryce Canyon NP had an original unrestored White tucked away in a garage when I worked there as a seasonal ranger back in 1996. I was told ONLY the park superintendent (Fred Fagergren) drove it in local parades.
I've got a vintage White sewing machine that I keep around because it's STILL a beast--goes through multiple layers of very heavy fabric (or even rawhide leather) like it's nothing.
It would have been nice to get a shot of the passenger side of the bus, along with people getting in and out. Seeing the legroom afforded the passengers and getting the "passenger-eye view" would also have been a plus. It's a bus after all! Great video Jay. Any chance of doing one of a European bus ?
It’s great when some guy is telling Jay he should make sure he checks his tire pressures regularly… l’m so thankful Jay is getting such valuable help with his car collection!!
This is fun to see. One of my good friends kept his fathers bus, number 401, in their barn for 40+ years. In the 1960’s they would take the whole family on big trips including one from Montana to Anchorage Alaska. They kept a huge fuel tank in the back. As far as I know it is still in use.
I've never been able to bring myself to hop out of my sports car and I to one of these after crossing the country to get to Glacier, but they have this incredible majesty just to share the road with in some of the world's most dramatic beauty, in a minimally invasive yet thoroughly immersed way with nature knowing our ancestors were there in the same busses not so very long ago and to think they'll probably still be in use with our decendants for many generations to come. It is a special treat to see Jay drive an original spec one in socal, but it still doesn't really do them justice vs seeing stunned tourists from all over the world riding them on the continental divide.
Beautiful bus! Glad it was restored. When I was a kid, we had a car that used a toilet paper oil filter. I don’t remember what the car was, but I remember my dad getting mad that the car got better quality tp than his behind did 😂
When Jay said throwing beers off to the side, it reminded me when beer cans were tin and would just rust away in ditches. No pull tabs because you'd need a beer can opener to pierce a couple of holes in the can's top to drink from it.
From GM's Motorama tour bus to the old pickle body style to Greyhound's Scenic cruiser this fits right in. I thought the old Divcos were cool. Here you have Union Pacific's Big Boy loco comissioned to the Packard Company to build a bus. The generator on the thing could power a dodgem rink. Very cool that the remaining units are still in use...really cool. Some of the better videos are when the "caretaker/owner" are so full of knowledge and enthusiasm - battering back and forth with Jay. The old original stock pieces are the neatest and make for great time capsule productions- as only Leno can pull off.
In '68 my mom built a camper from a '50 Ford school bus. Flathead V8, 4 speed / no syncros. She knew how to double clutch! Never heard her grinding up a pound!
Memories, as a young lad in the early seventies I toured glacier In a white, couple things I remember. The driver told me, He and his coworkers were all going to heaven because they had scared the hell out of more people than any priest, and adult smokers got the window seats which really sucked.
I had a 53 Ford F-150 with a un- synced 1st gear manual, 3 on the tree, with an inline 6 cyl snd single carb. It had those vacuum wipers. The old truck had a manifold leak. It was a lot of fun running wipers going uphill! It would lose all vac , of course. I had put in a 1940s , one piece heater core with blower. A real challenge to defrost. That small truck could be a beast to drive between the original brakes, steering, pumping brakes and shifting. I was 16 and this truck had the 5 star 50th anniversary logo on the steering wheel. 1903 to 1953. I miss that old thing.
Why does this look better than any other new vehicle on the road? I really think this vehicle needs to be in service at the park again. EDIT: The fact that these are still in use today, in original form, is the best thing I've ever heard! Yay!
this one hit a soft spot for me, i learned to drive a truck in an 64' autocar and it looks a lot like this thing only bigger, and it wasnt a bus. i never understood until now why when i was at the pier so many people truckers would come up and say wow it this from the 30's? i took the name plate on the grille off and hand painted "Iron Maiden" in its place. that was in 1980.......i still have the autocar name plate.
Classic are like those hair, when we had them, we didn't care but now we will do anything to have them back. Jay is lucky guy who still has his hair and the cars. God bless you Jay Live Long N Prosper🖖
I do not understand why some game developers aren't already in contact with Jay and scanning the cars and recording their sounds for next gen games ... what an opportunity to see those unique cars in perfect conditions and hear them while running
It is wonderful that at no time during the video does one see what I would expect is the most interesting aspect, the right side of the bus, and all those doors.
Fantastic restoration and I'm a fan of original patina , many of my restorations have been left in the original patina as long as the entire piece conforms , but I wish this White's engine bay would have been addressed better , not to say in a pristine state but perhaps the engine having some paint on it , also the fire wall & etc. and the carb and manifold cleaned better . I think it would make the entire project more uniform . Thanks guys
Hugely nostalgic for me. I worked in Waterton Park in Alberta in the late 1970s. It is an international park paired with Glacier. These came through every day sometimes as many as a dozen ferrying visitors (Gorbies) from lodge to lodge. As the previous commentator said the drivers in Waterton-Glacier were known as "Jammers" and they were an interesting group. I did get to drive one of these for part of a day, very cool feeling. I also remember going in one down a road in the Lake McDonald area standing on the seats holding on to the cross bars. We even had a leather covered seat out of one as a couch in our dorm room at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton. Thanks for the video and memories.
My dad had a 1961 White dump 6-wheel truck--chassis cost a whopping $8900--plus $3600 for the hydraulics--, only had the 6 cyl. gas engine, but had a 2-speed rear end--as far as I know it's running today after 50 years of rough use!
The bus owner leans more to the business side of the restoration of these vehicles. Although not surprising Jay knows about vehicles, he’s a definite gear head. He’s very knowledgeable and gives great mechanical advice along the trip.
A highlight of our Yellowstone visit in 2018 was a tour on a White tour bus. A lowlight of the tour was being stopped by the side of a road peacefully watching a momma bear with her cub, and suddenly seeing a megabus full of tourists offload behind us, with said tourists then stampeding toward the bears to get a closer look. Our driver yelled at them to get away from the bears, to no effect. So he drove us away from what could have been an all you can eat buffet.
I believe FOMOCO redid the Glacier Park fleet sometime in the last 15 or so years. You can go up and down Going To The Sun Road without putting yourself at huge risk.
The yellow "jammer" White tour buses were for Yellowstone National Park. The arguably more famous ones are the red jammers of Glacier National Park that have been been restored and rebuilt several times and are still operating to this day.
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I drove one of these ‘36 Whites in 1978 when I was 21 in Glacier National Park. What a great summer. Back then the busses were 4 speeds that you had to double clutch, quite the learning curve. The tour bus drivers were called Jammers (not gear jammers). The bars across the luggage compartment windows were to stop the luggage that would slide around at times from breaking the windows. As he mentioned the busses at glacier had side doors on the luggage compartment so it would fit an extra row of seats if needed for four more passengers. However, many of us Jammers put a small mattress back there in luggage compartment and would sleep there if dorm rooms too full. Didn’t take other park employees long to find out that little secret and use them for midnight rendezvous……
Double clutching is for noobs, just rev match the gears 😎
Midnight rendezvous! 🤣😂
Indeed "😉 😉 "!
@@mrwhips3623 double clutching is for people who would rather make it easier, it's slower. But far easier to just double clutch
@@pb6198 lol it's not though broski 😂 ask every trucker ever.
Love episodes like this. These vehicles don't get the appreciation they deserve. These old trucks/commercial vehicles are 1000x cooler than any lambo or whatever.
THIS is what I love about Jay Leno. The TV stuff was his job. This is his passion and it's contagious.
I could have a few more kids with that thing lol, I love it
Lambos, sports cars, and Rolls etc, are mildly interesting, but have ZERO relation to 90% of actual drivers and people of today. I would much rather see normal vehicles.
@@kevintomb Very true. Relatability makes all the difference to the average person.
I don’t know if you go to many car shows but something like this would draw all the attention away from those Italian cars or Mclarens etc. It really is fun to see all the people taking pictures of the old cars and trucks. It is easy to respect what modern cars can do but they just aren’t as intriguing.
I love how Jay points out any “flaws” in how people’s vehicles are running in a polite and constructive way.
And Jay’s technical expertise is evident by his analytical comments; a real “car guy”.
More often then not he and his crew will pull it into the shop and fix what isn't right after the filming.
@@writerconsidered that doesn’t surprise me one bit.
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Unlike most "celebrities" Jay has been real. Himself.
Often, when Jay gets to see the newly restored vehicle, the restorer/owner is still putting it through its paces to find issues they overlooked in the shop or which they couldn't foresee until the car had a few additional miles put on it after the restoration. So Jay isn't pointing out flaws but rather finding issues that's still needs to be addressed that only a few test runs on the road can make obvious. No car restorer gets it 100% right the first time, unless it's already largely in exceptional working order when they bought/acquired it and they only need to do minor repair work or only body work.
I remember this model bus in “Big Trouble In Little China.” Egg Shen’s Bus Tours! So cool to see one cruising in this episode!
I love that Jay took the crew for the ride.
What an incredible ride that must have been!
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@@BridgesOnBikes it was!
My childhood was in Yellowstone and I was lucky enough to ride in one of these a few times. Such a neat piece of U.S. history. I'm so proud and thankful we have our National Parks.
You can thank Teddy Roosevelt for our National Parks.
@@seadog686 Yup, I passed under Roosevelt Arch every day going to school. "For the benefit and enjoyment of the people".
Love to see these kinds of vehicles restored. Commercial vehicles are so rare, but tells our history better than just cars do and can be very beautiful as well.
If I recall correctly all of Glaciers buses except 1 (the best original) were restored by Ford in the 1990s.
Ford had bought a number of other manufacturers, and one of those manufacturers had owned all the the White manufacturer rights.
At that time All the Glacier buses were in need of a lot of work and many had been retired due to poor condition, Since Ford now owned all the rights they made the park a deal, and restored and modernize most of the buses, which is why they are still on the roads today.
Those buses now have a small Ford emblem under the bigger White name on the front of the buses.
Well, Glacier had app 60 restored vehicles in service, Yellowstone 5 and Grand Teton 1 or 2 busses.
@@steffenrosmus9177 33 White (Red) buses in operation today. I have heard & read different accounts that all 33 buses were restored by Ford. I was told by one of the bus drivers that 32 buses were restored by Ford (Ford donated 6 million to help pay for the restorations) and 1 bus was kept original condition for display.
Once again, Jay has reached outside the “norm” for a wonderful show. Real entertainment. And, informative. Thank you
There's cool, then there's cool. This is the latter. History and art combined. What a classic.
This is one of the coolest things I have seen.
I think I'm missing the point. I just don't see the appeal.
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It's just stout, solid, & history.
Absolutely incredible relic that never will be replicated. Straight up Built For Life.
The "Big Trouble in Little China" bus. Cool!
Egg!
Egg Shen. Bus driver... Tour Bus. Bus for tourists. San Francisco Chinatown.
"It's all in the reflexes"- Jack Burton
Pork Chop Express next!
I rode one of those in Glacier National Park about 5 years ago. The fleet they had was overhauled and refitted by Ford Motor Company. All medium-duty Ford truck running gear. The seats were still very close together. I am a big guy, claimed the "shotgun" seat, did well. Rain came, everyone had to help roll out and anchor the tarp roof. All seniors on the ride, we had a lot of fun.
Also propane powered!
What a gorgeous thing this truck is. Just oozes nostalgia.
Listening to Jay give his mechanical advice is just awesome. Jay is to cars as Gandalf is to magic. WONDERFUL episode.
What a great presentation featuring this White Yellowstone National Park Tour Bus. How lovely to see how well it has been maintained over the years and Winslow has a solid historical perspective on these buses as used in several of our National Parks. My Dad had a 1936 Black, two-door Chrysler, straight six cylinder "Businessman's Coupe" which he purchased new in that year, and it has the same "Bullet Headlights" featured on this Tour Bus. I remember riding in the car when I was quite young, and as a young adult, I partially restored it and sold it to a mechanic who wanted to restore it, and I gladly did so since the bills were becoming increasingly expensive. I trust that he did a good job with his efforts....:). Thanks Jay, for another great historical vehicle history lesson!! (Jay and I were fellow classmates at Emerson College, in Boston, and we both graduated in the Spring of 1973.). Ted Schempp, Nashville
That just looks like what it's supposed to be. I know it was literally made to be a Yellowstone tour bus, but even without the label it just looks like that is where it belongs. I'm glad people are keeping these beautiful machines going.
this is one of, if not the stupidest post i have read in 2022.
"i know it's meant to look like it does but omg it looks like it does"
Can almost feel 1936 just looking at this truck. Love it. Thank you Jay Leno for letting us enjoy this one with you.
Jay is right, back in 1967 I traded a hand gun for a 53 Willy's Station Wagon with a flat head 4.
The Willy's had been sitting in a pasture for a couple of years with the spark plugs out of it.
Towed it home, tuned it up, put new gas in and it fired right up...Had a lot of fun with that vehicle.
Sounds like a good program - guns for old jeeps/trucks ha.
@@Porsche996driver beats cash for clunkers lol
Great episode, very entertaining, I'd rather see this kind of thing any day than a modern supercar.
Love to see this truck, my grandfather maintained those during WW2. My father’s family lived in the Old Faithful lodge.
What a great man Jay Leno is, just to imagine what it must feel to be part of his family, Jay Leno is a man that everyone loves from a small kid to a old grandpa, just like everyone loved Elvis Presley everyone loves Jay Leno.
i agree 100%
love from France.
Elvis was a jerk who messed around with underage girls and was strung out on opiates and amphetamines. Not sure why you are comparing him to Leno.
The overland service through the desert from the late-20s through the 30s is described and illustrated fully in their book 'Nairn Bus to Baghdad', by two New Zealand brothers. It's a fascinating historical record as they pioneered many features taken for granted today e.g. state of the art tyre construction, oil filtration and above all, collaboration with the Karrier company to provide mobile air conditioning units powered by Wisconsin engines on the cab roof, for their flagship Cummins diesel powered Marmon Herrington coaches. They used only American machinery as it was tough enough to endure the severe conditions. Col, NZ.
Jay is a walking breathing automotive encyclopedia. What an absolute HONOR it would be to just sit down and talk shop with Mr. Leno.
I love how Jay is driving the bus and diagnosing the darn thing as he goes!
old vehicles are his life.. everything else he does is just to support his passion.
Thanks for this one. My dad was an apprentice machinist at White Motor Co. when this was built.
I have a 1946 White Model 798 'suburban' coach with a 12 cylinder underfloor pancake engine in my collection. White was in Cleveland, as was the Bender Body Company. In the early years, White made the chassis and Bender made the body. White made many hundreds of city transit buses and highway coaches. Large fleets of White buses could be found in San Francisco, Chicago, Cleveland and in Washington, D. C., among many other places.
I have a large collection of vintage buses. My 1945 Ford Transit has a Ford 'flat head' six engine in it. My 1951 Fagoel Twin Coach has an underfloor Fagoel engine.
My Uncle John used to work @ White Motor on east side of CLE.Our family still lives in suburban CLE area Dad & I are bus nuts we would love to see your collection am intrigued with seeing the pancake engine.👀
You should try and reach out to Jay's garage to come on the show. They have an email on the about section I think. That pancake motor would be great to see.
Nice when Jay knows more than the person who rebuilt and brought the vehicle. You can see how much Jay loves all of these old vehicles.
love seeing Jay teach people that build a vehicle like this so much about the history. God damn Jay is the true car legend
Do you know what God's 3rd Commandment is?
@vincentwoodward6916: No one cares because there is no god.
I really enjoyed this video. I think the cars and trucks of the 1930's were probably the best looking we ever made in this country. I love these old busses. They are very pleasant to look at and I would imagine very enjoyable to ride in. Keep up the good work Jay, you have one of the best channels on here.
_"I think the cars and trucks of the 1930's were probably the best looking we ever made in this country."_
The coolest-looking and most attractive styling cars of the mid-1950s to early 1970s WERE the best looking cars ever produced in this country
@@electrix6751 That's your opinion, putting WERE in capitals to suggest you are categorically right is a bit arrogant. 1950s were great but I agree with David the 1930s were better looking.
@@motorsthroughtime Thank you!! Couldn't agree more!
My great gradfather started the first yellowstone tour bus company its good to see that old girl looking so good
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Wonderful show ! We were able to ride one of these buses in 1976 in Yellowstone. And to add icing on the cake, in 1978 we bought a 6.5 acre lot on what was the old White Estate in Geauga County Ohio. Still living there in the house we built. What a great connection to this video..... Love you Jay, Loni & Al
Cool story … thanks Loni!
I loved your story Merry Christmas 🎄
I was a Jammer in Glacier NP in 1982 and these were still powered by the original straight 6 engines and 4 speed transmissions. "Armstrong power steering" was the joke. We'd come up with our own creative ways to use a Radio Shack microphone and give a complete tour as we drove up and over the Going to the Sun Highway. Because we traveled around to the different Lodges, we carried all our belongings in a big bin in the back. Sometimes we'd sleep back there. It was one off the best summers ever. Thank you for posting this one, Jay and team!
Funny how Jay knows more about the maintenance and history of any vehicle than the owners. Very beautiful bus. Unique. Thank you Jay.😎❤️❤️😁🤑😁
He isnt the owner - jump to 20:00.
And he isnt the restorer "Bis with 600 tmiles on the clock and didnt check the inside of the engine or gearbox wtf?
@@10zoll They knew how to build them right in the 30's and even into the 40's.
@@10zoll Its very likely that this unit frame and body has 600k on it while the engine and trans likely has had some major overhauls. Oil back then was not great and cause major wear.
@@10zoll He's the Owner of the shop that restored it. He didn't actually work on it. His employees did.
Look at the difference between Jay and him. Jay's shirt, pressed, pockets nice, tucked, belt on. This guy styled his Hair to look like he's been working hard. Short looks like he slept in it. Not tucked in, and probably can't with that gut. Which shows he sits at the desk all day. Which is the most important job at a shop. I know this personally. But dude has dressed to "Look like a working Man". And I think he wants to be a comedian. But you can see the difference in the men, the eras.
geez, commenting on his gut and otherwise tearing a nice guy dow …he wasn’t all that knowledgeable but why insult a guy based on your own bad personal experiences? that’s the internet for you.
I know a guy who had an old school bus around a 1935 or so. It was absolutely beautiful and he restored it to the way it was when it was first built. The inside had benches along the sides instead of seats like this bus has and the floor was a beautiful wood. I believe he gave it to a museum.
What a great show this was. JLG kept me going throughout the pandemic, and this new video takes me back to it. Love it...
It's a once a week posted video. What exactly were you doing for the other 6 days, 23 hours and 30mins to "keep you going," because unless you just watched the video on repeat it's honestly somewhat difficult to really comprehend how exactly a 30min video was able to secure your wellbeing for the entirety of the rest of the week.
Did you watch the video and then return to a coma-like state? How exactly did you manage to pull this off.
**Asking for a friend**
@@kenbredow8727 No, not at all... Why would you assume that?! At least you have some sort of alibi for the other 6 days, 23 hours and 30 mins of the week.
@@Lucky14970 I was just joking around I don't even drink have a good day bud!
@@kenbredow8727 /nod Same to you!
PS. Cheers, I'll toss one or two back for you in order to help bring some equilibrium to the drinking community.
Enjoy your day!
PS. Still low-key wondering what Mr/Mrs. ADP is doing to occupy the rest of his time during their week considering he/she claims that this RUclips channel alone is able to satisfy his/her pandemic woes.
@@Lucky14970 you read a lot into a throwaway comment that is obviously over the top..
When I worked for the county they had two 1952 White trucks with a van body. They carried X-Ray machines and were lead lined so they were very heavy. They traveled about the county doing X-Ray checks for TB which in 1952 was prevalent then. Later we stripped out the machines and lead lining which we sold for scrap, something like 3 tons netted the county $200 which went toward their conversion. One was made into a mobile carpentry shop and the other was for the plumbers. We auctioned them off in 1985 and they were both sold for over $2000 each. They were still good runners and actually good on gas!
Love the passion Winslow shows this truck! Really happy they kept it stock! It's to cool to modernize.
Worked for a company as a mechanic in the 90s and the owner had one of these that he bought in the late 80s . The shop did all the body work and removed what I thought was a Continental flat head engine and replace with a 454 Chevy and turbo400 trans. The owner would let shop use truck for events and such. Very cool and fun. Thanks Jay for showing this piece of truck history 👍
These are neat busses. It reminds me of the old Crown school busses. I drove one for 10 years and it was an incredible machine with a mid engine diesel and a 10 speed manual transmission.
so incredible they don't build them anymore....
The best school bus built.
I have a 1974 Crown, big cummins, 10sp road ranger, I love my old bus :)
I remember those from high school. The guy would shift three times and we were still barely moving!
My first Crown rides was powered by a Hall Scott gas engine. I was always amazed by the remote controls. The clutch was air operated.
I love the front end on this, especially the grill. It's like a macro Packard.
Jay, I never thought I would find a bus video interesting, but this one was--well done. :)
Of all the celebrities Leno is the one to trust driving your precious old vehicle ! How many others have experience with a fire truck, coal truck, Dusenberg and a Bentley ? Plus Jay drives his collection, doesn’t just let them sit.
Back in the 1960's our house had an amazing panoramic photo of these same Yellowstone Park busses, all lined up at the bus shop in Gardiner, Montana (one of the entrances to Yellowstone). The photo was about 10 inches high and three feet wide. It appears to be taken just before the start of tourist season and the first bus runs of the year. The photo must have shown several hundred busses like this one. Many early tourists coming from the east either rode the Northern Pacific Railroad (which had a branch line from its Livingston depot that ran to Gardiner) or the Milwaukee Railroad which dropped people off at Gallatin Gateway, Montana. These busses picked up the Milwaukee passengers at Gallatin Gateway for the appx. 50-mile ride through beautiful Gallatin Canyon and down to West Yellowstone (another Park gate). In the 1950's and 1960's, these busses had been sold off and you'd often see them with private citizens at the wheel, running around towns near the Park. Anyway, I was transfixed by the photo and, after I moved away, it somehow disappeared from the family home. These White busses served both Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks.
I think you'll find it's bussses.
Love these vehicles, and their red cousins in Glacier.
Hiked down Mount Washburn (Yellowstone) earlier this month with a young man who works at Legacy Classic Trucks keeping these treasures running.
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It was great to see one of these up close and in detail, though I would not have expected them to be that expensive. Those bars in the back doors are likely to prevent luggage inside from breaking the glass. Thanks for another wonderful show!
Like he said, besides going up hills, these things are kinda FUN to drive. Other than starting off, the clutch is"un-necessary" to a experienced driver who can "feel/hear" when the drive force of the gear train is "floating" (not pushing or holding back the vehicle). When there is no pressure on the gears, the transmission can be "up" or "down" shifted with absolutely no grinding if the engine RPM is exactly correct. With some practice and that "ear/feel", it's very doable and FUN!!!
They were much newer than this vehicle, but the bus drivers at San Simeon in the 70's and 80's used to drive those busses up the mountain to the castle shifting so smoothly that a knowledgeable passenger was "very impressed". You could tell, those were "CRASH" boxes also!! They would downshift going up the hill gently increasing the RPM of the motor and slide into a lower gear with "silky" smooth shifts!!! It definitely was "notable"!!!
This reminds me of a Barn find hunter episode on Hagerty where they found one of those in a junkyard. Didn't think there would be more around!
I think Jay did a nice job of explaining that the engine might be running rough because the fuel was different back in the day and the guy also said it’s tuned for 7,000 ft air , I know my ford ranger didn’t run well on unleaded gas , jay telling the guy that marvel mystery oil might help was just fine advice.
Jay made a good point about the engine temp though that argued against the carbueration being too lean. The carb might need adjustment, but I doubt it's because of the elevation. I also agree that modern unleaded ethanol ruined fuel does not work well in old pre-fuel injection engines. Heck, it doesn't work as well in modern engines as ethanol free fuel.
@@michaelb1761 Hi, I used to use a tetraethyllead additive available at Walmart for my 1963 truck. It liked it.
@@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710 I did that for a while in my 58, but as I understand it, that was to preserve the valve guides and seats. Since I don't drive it much anymore, I don't worry so much about the valve seats wearing out faster. The ethanol, though, is something I could really do without.
@@michaelb1761 Ah, I was travelling cross-country. I put about 4500 miles on it.
If you can find it, yamaha ring free works great. I run 1 oz per gallon of klotz super techniplate in my older gas engines. If you don't mind the smell of bananas, it's nice.
Now that was a fun video. I love when Jay features these "orphan" vehicles. Much more fun than a Ferrari or Lamborghini. Makes me want to visit Montana.
I absolutely love the older vehicles that are featured on Jay Lenos Garage. It really gives you a great sense for how the past has evolved into what it is today. This bus looks very well built! They sure do not make them like they used to. I love learning about history. This has been one of my favorite videos to date!
Our family visited both Glacier and Yellowstone in the summer of 2019 and both parks were running these classics. At Yellowstone, those trucks had been re-engined years ago with Ford engines, but otherwise they were pretty original. Awesome to see them packed with tourists doing what they do every day.
sf0 .................they had V 10 triton engines 355 hp
Wow, Jay really knows a hell of a lot about vehicles. He's not just a collector of cars and their histories, he can even analyze problems while driving it.
I live near Glacier Park, and have ridden in these a few times. They are red in color instead of yellow. They are very cool, and it's good to see them still being used in their intended role after all these years.
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They still have the yellow ones in Yellowstone
I’m 54 and I remember to this day the cool metal yellow bus toy I played with on my first day of school ( kindergarten). Since then I’ve always loved em. Especially the wheels:)
These busses are absolutely incredible, great design and a very comfortable way to sight see! Thanks Jay for sharing!
So let me get this right... if I describe something as incredible, that's not good enough, yes? If it's "absolutely" incredible that makes it even more incredible than just plain old standard incredible? Just checking I'm "absolutely" clear on this.
@@ivanjulian2532 why be a prickly pedant about a utube comment? does it make you feel superior?
As a teenager I rode in one of these back in the 1960's when I worked at Old Faithful during the summer when I was in High School. They were still used for tours.
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1936 Maiden Voyage of the New Cunard White Star liner R.M.S. "QUEEN MARY," and of course the D.C.-3 and the DLZ - 129 the " HINDENBURG," Great year for transportation.
this guy is so great. love his style: the trucks, the outfits. he's just top-to-bottom cool. his stuff is functional, classic, classy, but rugged and usable. really fits jay's attitude of a car worth owning is worth driving. he keeps these things on the road. something to be thankful for. i'm also thankful for his client's deep pockets, because I can't afford any of these things lol.
Bryce Canyon NP had an original unrestored White tucked away in a garage when I worked there as a seasonal ranger back in 1996. I was told ONLY the park superintendent (Fred Fagergren) drove it in local parades.
I've got a vintage White sewing machine that I keep around because it's STILL a beast--goes through multiple layers of very heavy fabric (or even rawhide leather) like it's nothing.
It would have been nice to get a shot of the passenger side of the bus, along with people getting in and out. Seeing the legroom afforded the passengers and getting the "passenger-eye view" would also have been a plus. It's a bus after all! Great video Jay. Any chance of doing one of a European bus ?
It would have been nice if you kept your mouth shut.
My grandfather drove one of those in YNP when they were brand new in the 1930s.
I love this truck. I remember them from my first ever trip to Yellowstone 1960's.
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It’s great when some guy is telling Jay he should make sure he checks his tire pressures regularly… l’m so thankful Jay is getting such valuable help with his car collection!!
Jay has got to be one of the world's foremost experts on older cars.
Popular Mechanics did a story on the red buses at glacier being returned to the factory and rebuilt.
This is fun to see. One of my good friends kept his fathers bus, number 401, in their barn for 40+ years. In the 1960’s they would take the whole family on big trips including one from Montana to Anchorage Alaska. They kept a huge fuel tank in the back. As far as I know it is still in use.
I've never been able to bring myself to hop out of my sports car and I to one of these after crossing the country to get to Glacier, but they have this incredible majesty just to share the road with in some of the world's most dramatic beauty, in a minimally invasive yet thoroughly immersed way with nature knowing our ancestors were there in the same busses not so very long ago and to think they'll probably still be in use with our decendants for many generations to come.
It is a special treat to see Jay drive an original spec one in socal, but it still doesn't really do them justice vs seeing stunned tourists from all over the world riding them on the continental divide.
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I never saw a tour bus like that but I remember school buses with that front end when I live in Washington State in the '50's.
They might have been Kenworths.
Yes, they were crash-boxes (non-synchronized in all gears) Our driver could double clutch that bus every shift perfectly.
Saw one of these bad boys in service in Yellowstone last week and a few in glacier the week before. Cool to know the history
Beautiful bus! Glad it was restored. When I was a kid, we had a car that used a toilet paper oil filter. I don’t remember what the car was, but I remember my dad getting mad that the car got better quality tp than his behind did 😂
When Jay said throwing beers off to the side, it reminded me when beer cans were tin and would just rust away in ditches. No pull tabs because you'd need a beer can opener to pierce a couple of holes in the can's top to drink from it.
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From GM's Motorama tour bus to the old pickle body style to Greyhound's Scenic cruiser this fits right in. I thought the old Divcos were cool. Here you have Union Pacific's Big Boy loco comissioned to the Packard Company to build a bus. The generator on the thing could power a dodgem rink. Very cool that the remaining units are still in use...really cool. Some of the better videos are when the "caretaker/owner" are so full of knowledge and enthusiasm - battering back and forth with Jay. The old original stock pieces are the neatest and make for great time capsule productions- as only Leno can pull off.
Those old trucks could go forever if maintained and never driven over 70mph.
In '68 my mom built a camper from a '50 Ford school bus. Flathead V8, 4 speed / no syncros.
She knew how to double clutch! Never heard her grinding up a pound!
And we all know Jay is darn good at guesstimating how much stuff weighs!!!
He rounds 🆙
I was curious just how much this vehicle weighed. Can't find the info anywhere. I wish Jay would have put it up on the lifts to find out.
That flathead reminds me so much of the flat head 4 on my grandads old 8n tractor. They are such neat engines for their simplicity
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Big Trouble in Little China - Egg Shen's Bus Tour 😂 hell yaaaa same bus ❤ it 😍
Was going to reply but figured I better look first. What a great B movie! Back when cheezy was eezy! Loved it!
Very cool. I grew up around Yellowstone Park and remember always seeing these buses there. A blast from my past!
Memories, as a young lad in the early seventies I toured glacier In a white, couple things I remember. The driver told me, He and his coworkers were all going to heaven because they had scared the hell out of more people than any priest, and adult smokers got the window seats which really sucked.
I had a 53 Ford F-150 with a un- synced 1st gear manual, 3 on the tree, with an inline 6 cyl snd single carb. It had those vacuum wipers. The old truck had a manifold leak. It was a lot of fun running wipers going uphill! It would lose all vac , of course. I had put in a 1940s , one piece heater core with blower. A real challenge to defrost. That small truck could be a beast to drive between the original brakes, steering, pumping brakes and shifting. I was 16 and this truck had the 5 star 50th anniversary logo on the steering wheel. 1903 to 1953. I miss that old thing.
Why does this look better than any other new vehicle on the road? I really think this vehicle needs to be in service at the park again. EDIT: The fact that these are still in use today, in original form, is the best thing I've ever heard! Yay!
Old commercial vehicles like this are awesome, especially when restored. Unfortunately, not many people have the room to restore something like this.
this one hit a soft spot for me, i learned to drive a truck in an 64' autocar and it looks a lot like this thing only bigger, and it wasnt a bus. i never understood until now why when i was at the pier so many people truckers would come up and say wow it this from the 30's? i took the name plate on the grille off and hand painted "Iron Maiden" in its place. that was in 1980.......i still have the autocar name plate.
Classic are like those hair, when we had them, we didn't care but now we will do anything to have them back.
Jay is lucky guy who still has his hair and the cars.
God bless you Jay
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I do not understand why some game developers aren't already in contact with Jay and scanning the cars and recording their sounds for next gen games ...
what an opportunity to see those unique cars in perfect conditions and hear them while running
They are and they do, he just hasn't publicized it too much. You might enjoy this - ruclips.net/video/XRHTFuICKkk/видео.html
It is wonderful that at no time during the video does one see what I would expect is the most interesting aspect, the right side of the bus, and all those doors.
Fantastic restoration and I'm a fan of original patina , many of my restorations have been left in the original patina as long as the entire piece conforms , but
I wish this White's engine bay would have been addressed better , not to say in a pristine state but perhaps the engine having some paint on it , also the fire wall & etc. and the carb and manifold cleaned better . I think it would make the entire project more uniform . Thanks guys
Hugely nostalgic for me. I worked in Waterton Park in Alberta in the late 1970s. It is an international park paired with Glacier. These came through every day sometimes as many as a dozen ferrying visitors (Gorbies) from lodge to lodge. As the previous commentator said the drivers in Waterton-Glacier were known as "Jammers" and they were an interesting group. I did get to drive one of these for part of a day, very cool feeling. I also remember going in one down a road in the Lake McDonald area standing on the seats holding on to the cross bars. We even had a leather covered seat out of one as a couch in our dorm room at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton. Thanks for the video and memories.
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Bars on the back windows could be to protect the glazing from tall stacks of luggage.
or bears.
@@edrcozonoking the bears are smart enough to open the door with the handle..
The shot of the airplane taking off just above the bus was awesome. Modes of transportation at opposite ends of the spectrum.
My dad had a 1961 White dump 6-wheel truck--chassis cost a whopping $8900--plus $3600 for the hydraulics--, only had the 6 cyl. gas engine, but had a 2-speed rear end--as far as I know it's running today after 50 years of rough use!
'running today after 50 years of rough use'.. like my wife.
Cool! they use those Whites up in Skagway Alaska for tourists. Hello from Alberta
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Jay, you hit the Jackpot with this one. WDW has one of these Buses.
"Big Trouble in Little China" springs to mind.
The bus owner leans more to the business side of the restoration of these vehicles. Although not surprising Jay knows about vehicles, he’s a definite gear head. He’s very knowledgeable and gives great mechanical advice along the trip.
When he mentioned having to move 6 cars out of a shop to work on 1 bus you know what he was doing. Just provides a service and no more.
The day I took a cruise with JAY in an OPEN TOP YELLOWSTONE BUS!
YUP! For the CREW! EPIC!!!
It looks more like a Mini-Bus or Maxi-Van 😀
I love it when Dr. Jay does an engine diagnosis on the go. 😏
I opened the hood on an old WWII half track recently and the large flathead 6 cylinder motor had an ID plate engraved "White Motor Company".
A highlight of our Yellowstone visit in 2018 was a tour on a White tour bus. A lowlight of the tour was being stopped by the side of a road peacefully watching a momma bear with her cub, and suddenly seeing a megabus full of tourists offload behind us, with said tourists then stampeding toward the bears to get a closer look. Our driver yelled at them to get away from the bears, to no effect. So he drove us away from what could have been an all you can eat buffet.
Were they Chinese?
@@bengaliinplatforms1268 yep
@@Hazwaste63 Well I'm not going to win any prizes for that guess lol
Kickstarted my memory with birdcages. Your right, even in the early sixties as a kid I remember an oddly large amount of homes with birdcages
I believe FOMOCO redid the Glacier Park fleet sometime in the last 15 or so years. You can go up and down Going To The Sun Road without putting yourself at huge risk.
They put the body on to a lengthened pick up frame and running gear on propane .
@@jimtandlmayer9146 Actually its a modified motorhome/box van chassis they are on.
The yellow "jammer" White tour buses were for Yellowstone National Park. The arguably more famous ones are the red jammers of Glacier National Park that have been been restored and rebuilt several times and are still operating to this day.