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The Present => Beyond the Beltway => Topic started by: djsiknik on July 24, 2011, 12:54:15 PM

Title: Can anyone identify the maker of this bus?
Post by: djsiknik on July 24, 2011, 12:54:15 PM
I was riding around the Denver area ad saw this bus in Longmont on the BOLT from Boulder.I checked MCI's website but nothing even looks close. If anyone has info it would be nice.
Title: Re: Can anyone identify the maker of this bus?
Post by: 79MetroExtraMD on July 24, 2011, 03:21:01 PM
Its a Blue Bird coach. I can't recall the exact model of it but I remember it being on their site before NABI bought them out.
Title: Re: Can anyone identify the maker of this bus?
Post by: aznboy4305 on July 26, 2011, 07:04:02 AM
I believe it is called a Blue Bird Express 4500.
Title: Re: Can anyone identify the maker of this bus?
Post by: SchuminWeb on July 26, 2011, 03:48:23 PM
That jives with what I've found:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/southerncalifornian/1424788560/

This bus is the same design, and also identified as a Blue Bird (and the Blue Bird logo is visible as well).
Title: Re: Can anyone identify the maker of this bus?
Post by: djsiknik on July 26, 2011, 08:41:10 PM
OK thanks guys, i have been out of the loop so long i didnt even know Blue Bird got in the commuter bus field.
Title: Re: Can anyone identify the maker of this bus?
Post by: SchuminWeb on July 28, 2011, 01:10:11 AM
Yeah, I didn't realize it, either until this week.  I always think of Blue Bird as the school bus company with the long black line near the top of the bus down the side, culminating in a stylized bird at the head end.

(Except in Virginia, from what I can tell, since I've never seen a Virginia school bus carry manufacturer markings in the paintwork like school buses in other states do - must be a law against it in VA)