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How Denmark Promotes Mass Transit (with English subtitles) (Original Post) KamaAina Sep 2012 OP
But I like the old GMC buses the best when it comes to buses happyslug Nov 2012 #1
 

happyslug

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1. But I like the old GMC buses the best when it comes to buses
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 09:30 PM
Nov 2012

While any bus is NOT a PCC, but we can NOT have everything:


http://www.davesrailpix.com/pitts/lastdays.htm

But I have to say, my favorite bus was the old GMC "Old Look" buses, that I rode as a youth (produced 1940-1969, through its replacement was in production at GM by 1959):


http://www.pittsburghtransit.info/oldlookgm.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_%22old-look%22_transit_bus

Wikipedia says the Old look GMC was of the same width as the "New Look", but I remember riding in both, the old look was less wide, but at least a foot if not 18 inches.

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