I appreciate all your comments on buying a Bus type conversion.

I have found a Bluebird 97 with a Cat engine. 36000 miles, Its a Wanderlodge and we can buy it for around $120,000.
I also found a Bluebird 94 with a 8V92, but my son in law said these are 2 stroke diesels and are leaking , smoking , blow by engines. This would be priced around $100,000.
Both of these have been for sale for a long time.

I did find out to buy a Prevost, Newell, Bluebird with a Detroit 60 Series, you must buy a 1995 or Newer.

Let's talk about these older coaches with big power Vogue 450-500 HP. What about these.

How about the Gulf Stream Tourmasters with 450 hp Cummins- these coaches 1998-99 can be bought for under a $100K

How about the American Eagles I hear these are nice coaches 1999-2000 can be bought for around $100K with decent miles

Monaco's Don't know much about these.

Comments!

Boy am I gonna get flamed for this comment...but here goes...

Those are not buses, they are RVs.

That's right they not the same ... apples and oranges

Clintonmotor
What you are refering to is a American Eagle motor home which is a RV made by a motorhome company and never was a unit that was or could be used as a commerical passenger vehicle due to commerical requirements.
there was a company Eagle bus Company that manufactured a bus for commerical passenger use. Trailways Bus company had a lot of them in use. Many other bus companies used them also. Eagle is out of business now but you still see many Eagle buses being used as buses and also as bus conversions. I drive an Eagle bus conversion. It is a 1969 07 model bus and the conversion was done in 1986-88. It has a 8V92 with Allison 4 speed auto tran. As a conversion it has been on the road for 19 years and has 175,000 miles on it. If you have any more questions concerning Eagle buses get back to me with a Private email. dickluereed at yahoo . com

DICK: The Eagle bus has gone through various metamorphis' over the years, including being out of business for a period of time. The good news is that it has indeed been resurrected in its old home of Brownsville, TX. www.silvereaglebus.com.This URL will direct you to their web site recounting the Eagle's history as well as their reincarnation. The following URL will also be of interest concerning the proud and long history of the Eagle: http://www.coachinfo.com/AllAboutBuses/Eagle_Info a past Trailways driver from the American Buslines division, I well know the astonishing quality of these coaches and truely lament that more of them aren't available. Their only negative as an older coach is that they tend to be prone to rusting. oRV

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oRV
Yes you are right but us old eagle owners don't want to admit they are building new eagles. Originally eagles were built for passenger use. Now they are mainly built for entertainment and rv use.
thanks for the update on the New silver eagle.
dick reed

DICK: I notice that your bus is a 1969 model 07. These were built for Trailways and equipped with stacked bunks as well as hostesses. They were used for ski charters and schedules in the Rockies. If I'm not mistaken, these 07's were the first "wide body" 102" coaches built for Trailways. At the same time, MCI was building wide bodies for Greyhound and designated as MC6s. These wide bodies were used extensively to pressure the DOT to allow 102" vehicles on the interstate system nation-wide. By the way, my DW and I circled your bus and stared back in the Spring of '06 while while we were staying at Beaudry's in Tucson. oRV

For those of you who don't know it, my buddy Orv spent part of his life driving buses for Trailways and Gray Line. I've managed to learn a thing or two about being a bus driver from him.

Dick Reed had the first bus conversion I ever saw, and he got me hooked on them. So I blame him for me owning a bus myself.

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Dick Reed had the first bus conversion I ever saw, and he got me hooked on them. So I blame him for me owning a bus myself.
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Nick
I want to publicly apologize for being the blame for you driving a bus.

Have a good day and give that little lady a hug for both Lue and I.

Dick and Lue Reed

Nick Russell had the first bus conversion I ever saw, and he got me hooked on them. So I blame him for me owning a bus myself.

It's twue!
(But I think you've already apologized.) LOL

Oh geesh, Nick, now you've got me blushing. . . oRV

I'll stick with my PD 4106..

While looking at used foretravels, I came across a '95 Bluebird MM2242. Not much info on it, except it has 27k mileage, 300hp cummins and they are asking 73k. Is this a bus or did BB also make MHs?

Bluebird did and still does (to the best of my knowledge) make motorhomes. In fact, there are about 20 of them parked near us here in Quartzsite.

The Bluebirds are nice rigs, though I have never felt they have the carrying capacity of an actual bus.

harmonica slim, Like Nick said, the Bluebirds are a nice coach. I looked at them when we were thinking about replacing our 1990 Foretravel ORED. I found them to be very complicated systems wise.

One post on their forum regarding getting the dash radio to work suggested removing the back of a cabinet over the driver's seat to locate a relay in the speaker wiring. All other installations I have seen just wired the radio straight to the speakers.

Another owner I visited with showed me the nine (9) heaters in the coach. Some for the inside and some for the basement. That is seven more blower motors, circuit boards, etc than I have to do the same thing in the 40 U320 Foretravel we settled on.

Again they are a nice coach, just many more maintenance opportunities than I wished to have.

All the best as you make the choice that is best for you all.

Trainer