The Pug makes the picture on the first page.
Here's the Barrett-Jackson Bus: School of Hard Knocks
1957-CHEVROLET-CUSTOM-SCHOOL-BUS-178698
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When I pushed camera and shot film one of my friends, used to travel from movie sets in one of these:
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Many cool night in there... It had dark green leather seats and art deco chrome everywhere inside. Sconces for lights and wood trim.
The glass was all tinted cool blue/green with curtains. We'd get wrecked in there after work... The bus parties were epic. He just ripped the seats out of the last 5 rows for his bed, hung a curtain for his space, and the rest was stock. The ladies loved the bus parties... in the morning some nights every seat would be filled with hung over guests.
It was more of a mobile nightclub with sleeping quarters... on the back lot of the film studio parking area. Waterboy?
In 1997 it was $500 to fill it up.
Most people have no idea there are only 23,000 bus drivers, on any given day, max. Only helicopter pilots are more exclusive at apx. 21,000. The ones driving the touring bands have the gig to die for. We rode on Prevost usually. My career did not require me to tour though.
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<---- Paint one like this.
Only down side, if you run out of fuel and piss off the management, you're fired!
It's a serious responsibility driving a major act. Anyone can forget to fuel up with all the racket on one of these, so you have friends call you from around the world to remind you to fill the heck up... at 6am... I've made a few of those calls... "OK, I'm awake... thanks for calling..." "Fuel the damn BUS!"
Unless you fly helicopter, there is no more Elite status under the DOT/FAA, as a BUS DRIVER.
When a band member or a roadie got "lucky" and he showed up too late for the bus ride, at the hotel at 6AM, they called it an "Oil Spotting".
You'd come out of the hotel, freaking out with a severe hangover, thoroughly late for the mission, to find only the "oil spot", where the tour bus used to be parked.
Then you would have to pay for your own trip to the next show... $300-$500, penalty for getting laid and drunk!
You guys brought back some great memories for me... I am grateful to be in your company.
Chop, shorten and Lift one. Make it 4wd?