Vintage Bus Pictures

There is a book on him.
http://www.amazon.com/Legend-Lucky-Lott-Hell-Drivers/dp/0879388587/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

 

Lucky Lee Lott

Thanks. It's amazing what can be found on the internet.
I can still remember those 30's cars jumping over others and driving through a ring of fire when I was in grade school. And the drivers who would go up on a ramp then drive with two wheels off the ground the length of the small runway.
Even more amazing was after moving to NW Florida and riding somewhere in central Florida seeing Lee Lott's cars along the road with signs on them. I'm thinking those were yellow 50's Hudsons.
Apparently some of the family was in real estate and others in politics because I remember seeing their names now and then. Always wanted to find those cars and stop. Why was I always in a hurry? Probably pulling an RV which always made stopping along the road difficult.
Sorry got off topic.

 

That's a Nash in Yeller's post right? :confused:

 

Yes, those are what he drove.

 

Yes it's a 1952 Nash Statesman. The ones I saw in the Florida field were more like Hudsons or Mercurys around 1950.

I also remember seeing lot of those bug killer cars with ads by Truly Nolen, I believe. He'd buy old cars and have them painted wild with his exterminator name and park them around towns.

I corrected the Nash picture info.

 

I was just reading about Nash Motors in a Wiki article. Not the most well known brand but they sure did have a lot of technical advances. And the pictures of their '30's cars show some beautiful models. I already knew they folded into AMC in the '50's.

 

I had several relatives of my mom's who always bought Nash products. They were well built and advanced for their times. Sadly only a few people liked them. I was not one.
The closest I got to owning a Nash was trading my 1954 Ford on a VW Beetle at the Nash dealer.

 

I actually stumbledon a Vintage Bus Picture searching for 60's Super Stock Pictures.

 

This bus design was not new even back then. When the Pacific Northwest Traction Company failed to finish the Seattle-Bellingham section, they used motorcoaches they built in-house using new chassis they ordered, then the trolley shop carpenters built a body on it, with this configuration. I'll see if I can find a pic of it on-line (I have an Arcadia publication on the trolley system) and post it up if I do.

 

Unfortunately, I could not find a photo of the bus I'm talking about online, but in the book I referenced, Seattle-Everett Interurban Railway by Arcadia Publications, page 103 shows the original, dubbed a "Parlor-Observation Coach," which, as I described above, was a wood body (and a very plush interior) locally built on a commercial chassis.

 

The one above would make an interesting motohome. Sadly most old buses and firetrucks get scraped.

 

Yeah. Usually they get scrapped. When was the last time you saw a Grey Dog Scenicruiser? For me, it's the 1/87th scale model I bought last month.