BusBuilding

Personal opinion only, not pickin’ on anyone or saying there is no chance of doing it absolutely the perfect way the first time…

My experience in life, and construction in particular (I have 50 years plus in the latter) is that it is NEVER just the way it COULD be done to have the best possible outcome. That is the reason in the construction industry there are plans called “As Built” that superscede any Architectural or Structural design plans. AND, biggest thing…that doesn’t mean it will please everybody, for what ever reason, including being to exact code….to being practically the greatest…. the safest and just plain difference of likes and dislikes.

I’ve always felt that if one doesn’t learn something new today, they are not making much progress. SO…in our conversion, we “live with it” a while, and if we find it is not what it should be, we change it, and if it is, we lock it in.

As Fast Fred says…..do it your way. But be safe!!!

– R.C.Bishop, March 9, 2005

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Creating one’s own reality…

After jumping into this bus thing head first and making all the wrong choices, (I’m on my 3rd bus and haven’t gotten rid of any of them yet) getting burned by bad mechanics, overcharged for everything, haven’t had enough time to get anything done myself the way I hoped…been laughed at, called crazy, and felt a underlying sense of guilt for all the time and money I’ve spent on this bus thing so far, when I should have been doing other things and on top of that the price of fuel keeps climbing, WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME??

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Prompted by a long-suffering bus converter’s cry for inspiration and encouragement, these very lightly edited posts should help cure even the stoutest of busnut blues.

Something for new bus nuts to consider

I am 51. Twelve years ago I got the bus nut fever. For two years I attended any bus convention I could locate and bought hundreds of dollars of books and tapes. I enrolled and completed junior college, studying electrical engineering and welding. I researched thoroughy.

Year three I bought a 9 year old MCI. In between work and family I worked on it for three years.

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After almost 4 years and 2 starts it looks like I am going to make it. I started 4 years ago with an MC5C and then after a year of work changed jobs and lost the time to work on it. Before I got going again I changed buses last spring before starting the interior and infrastucture. I fell in love with a Neoplan AN-340 and sold the MC5 with a raised roof, sided, and new caps.
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A couple in their 70s who have been married for more than 56 years, Don and Carol Tresedder can credit their bus conversion with more than making them feel alive.

Mr. Tresedder has had to endure about a half-dozen cancer surgeries since beginning his bus conversion, and during the process he’s lost his right leg right up to the hip, in addition to parts of his lungs. Without something to keep him going, he could easily have decided all these battles against cancer just weren’t worth the effort.

Instead, the bus conversion has become something that even he admits borders on an obsession.

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Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan, ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Calvin Coolidge
30th president of US (1872 - 1933)