these people that are asking to join my team at comic con... omg, do they WASTE my time with stupid questions. So, I want to apologize you you wonderful people whom I should have been taking better care of instead. Here's all I have time to post today

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2026/07/reuse-restore-rework.html

 

Kenworth’s fairly extensive bus manufacturing history has been forgotten, but buses were part of its portfolio from its beginning as the Gerlinger Motors Co. in 1912, and at one point were its most profitable product line.

The Model T was built from 1949 to 1957. 

The engine was the sturdy International-Harvester “Red Diamond” – a 450 cu. in. version for the 35 footer and a 503 cu. in. one for the longer model.

While smaller and less powerful than the Hall-Scott 590 and 779 cu. in. engines used in Crown school buses, they were no doubt more fuel efficient.

Shifting was through a Spicer 5-speed manual. 

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/bus-stop-classic/1949-57-kenworth-model-t-series-pacific-school-coach-the-bifocal-bus

ha... this has to have happened to "Florida Man"

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=26855504387452251&set=gm.2063847397868004&idorvanity=500539467532146

the GM “Baby Fishbowl” thirty-footer had an optional 351 gas V6. Only 10 % got the gas engine, the other 90% were obviously diesel. The '75 Flxible “Shorty” New Look 31 footer were often bought by transit agencies that needed a small bus with more power for routes with steep hills

Baby Fishbowl above, Flxible below

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/bus-stop-classic/draft-some-of-the-many-old-buses-of-the-seashore-trolley-museum/

A 2,000-year-old coin was unknowingly used as bus fare in England

The relic was collected in the 1950s by a Leeds City Transport employee named James Edwards, who tallied fares from bus and tram drivers at the end of each day and counted them.

Edwards would set aside coins that couldn't be cashed — including foreign or counterfeit currency — and take them home.

He gave the ancient coin to his grandson, Peter, who stored it in a wooden chest.

Now 77, Peter Edwards recently revisited the coin and researched its origins.

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/coin-used-bus-fare-turns-out-2000-year-old-relic-its-journey-mystery.amp

abandoned bus made over with street art

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=700187430743004&set=a.498276272422745

https://www.bizbrunei.com/2020/09/guerilla-artchitects-overturning-perceptions-of-street-art/

it's kinda weird to see a but pulling a wagon trailer... not a luggage type, it looks like a garbage type

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/698/

uh oh... looks like someone borrowed the look of the VW type 2 Microbus. Even has the cyclops headlight. It's a 1935 Kenworth

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/74/

cool hotel bus, imagine this the next time you catch a shuttle to the airport, or from the airport to your hotel

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/252/

the weather outside is frightful, etc etc let it snow - this bus can take it

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/411/

wow, impressive Packard busses!

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/650/

how does a bus, on a track, at a governed constant speed, unable to turn or speed up, kill 3 people between 2015 and 2021?

That's nearly a train.... so how did 3 people get hit by it? And die? 

The govt says it was a lack of fences. 

I can use logic, and figure out that if a fence would prevent people from stepping in front of a bus, then the bus and the fence were not at fault, people jumping in front of a bus were unable to prevent themselves from stepping in front of it. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yq6570je0o.amp

so... why did the bus topple over in Sun Metro's transit center on Feb 11th when it was on the lift?... the reason it blew up was a it's fuel tank of CNG puncturing when it hit the floor - and two died from burns - that is effing horrible. Hey OSHA, focus on this OSHA "certified" lift, and , not safety glasses!

The video shows a Sun Metro bus falling from a hydraulic lift about 1 p.m. on Feb. 11 at a maintenance garage at the Sun Metro Operations Center, in East El Paso.

It slides off center supports, and I don't see outriggers to keep it balanced on those scissor jacks... it slid off. 

is this the result of getting rid of pits, and buying from the lowest bidder? Why isn't that bus on a 4 point lift under each tire, or each corner? 

https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2025/10/23/el-paso-officials-release-surveillance-video-of-deadly-sun-metro-fire/86852469007/

https://www.ktsm.com/news/video-shows-sun-metro-bus-on-mechanic-lift-fall-explode/

https://sunmetro.net/news/news-releases/

thanks to Kim for sharing his review of a artist's book that is not likely to get distributed in the USA. 'The Fantastic Bus' winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize, and adapted into a sold out play!

In 2024, the author and illustrator Jakob Strid was awarded the Nordic Council's Children's and Youth Literature Prize for his book 'The Amazing Bus'. It took him fifteen years to write and draw the book. He tells both poetically and seriously about how a group of different animals, from small turtles to lions and rhinos, set out together to find the magical land of Balanka. 

The little bear Taku tells about how the gallery of characters in the story builds an enormous, four-story high, 10-wheeled bus. The prime mover behind the project is the cat Spir, whose green fur is due to the fact that he once fell into a barrel of radioactive slime... 

An equally important main character is the bus itself, which in addition to its many piston engines has jet turbines and wings. It is all drawn technically quite correctly, which makes the illustrations extra enjoyable for car enthusiasts to study in more detail. It is clear that the author has spent a lot of time looking at and understanding the technology of trucks before putting pen to paper.

 The animals' goal in building the imaginative vehicle is to find a flower that can save the sick Timo's life. This results in a trip through wild landscapes, across desolate plains, along a bridge over the North Pole and on to the other side of the world. The experiences along the way range from technical challenges to a meeting with the gods, to flashbacks about how they once tried to fly to Balanka in airships. 

The book from the publisher Gyldendal is a small work of art, and can be read with equal pleasure by both children and adults. It is worth every penny.

https://www.koegebib.dk/artikler/born/den-fantastiske-bus-far-nordisk-rads-litteraturpris

https://www.gosee.news/loves/illustration for more images

https://www.instagram.com/jakob_martin_strid/

The Fantastic Bus even put on a sold out show at the Royal Theatre of Copenhagen!

Experience Jakob Martin Strid’s grand masterpiece in a new musical and poetic production for children, as The Fantastic Bus takes over the Main Stage at the Royal Danish Playhouse. 

Oct 8-Nov 30

Life in Ahnstarr City is not easy for Taku, Spir, and their friends. Their small wooden houses by the harbor are being torn down, and little Timo is seriously ill. 

Only the rare saffron lily, which grows in the dreamland of Balanka, can cure him. 

When two old Phantom-8 jet engines from a failed expedition 25 years ago are rediscovered, and a plasma generator is brought back to life, Spir has an idea: let’s build a bus and travel to Balanka!

https://artelize.com/event/161075-the-fantastic-bus-

the new Fantastic Four movie has a cool variety of vehicles in the scenery, and a great recreation of the comic book Thing lifting a VW Bug

Notice the little green round thing in the far left above

A bus called Swordfish? Is this an easter egg for the Jackman/Berry/Travolta?Cheadle movie where the helicopter picks up the bus and flies it across the city? 

This bus is a '62 Leyland Royal Tiger https://cars.bonhams.com/auction/17261/lot/228/blue-bird-the-ex-blue-bird-garages-hull-ltd1952-leyland-royal-tiger-psv11s-41-seater-coach-chassis-no-515490

What the heck is this little blue car? Gotta be Eastern European or a Hollywood creation

and here's that little green round thing again, which was featured at Comic Con!  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/07/great-little-hollywood-prop-car-in.html

Autonomous Transport Authority - a double-sided poster, for the 1970 Parisian buses

 

https://www.gros-delettrez.com/lot/171336/30928370-regie-autonome-des-transports-ratp-lot-de-deux-posters-dont

1938 Yellow Coach model 1204

the Pueblo Trolley Museum includes 8 vintage street cars and 28 buses

https://www.facebook.com/oldpueblotrolley

https://oldpueblotrolley.com/