So I was blowing down I-5 glorying in the heat on my way to Covelo call, when suddenly!
So I stopped and looked more closely:
I could imagine why this tour company didn't quite take off for the guy:
Then, emboldened, I snooped around a little:
and spied this iconic beauty:
The things we have learned since this:
Even this one was once considered the latest and greatest technology. . . :
. . . but those long and floppy belts always made me nervous. Here's a two-cycle diesel from the early 60's. It blew in the intake charge with a blower (supercharger) at the bottom of each and every downstroke of the piston:
. . . and had to remove as much of the exhaust charge as it could on the beginning of the compression stroke:
. . . using a four-valve cylinder head!
These 2 cycle diesels had excellent torque with a power stroke on every single down movement of the piston, but it ran out of horsepower quickly at high rpms (high? try 1,500 rpm) and sounded a lot more frantic and busy than it actually was.
to be continued
Itinerant Air Cooled Greetings From MCI Central
- Amskeptic
- IAC "Help Desk"
- Status: Offline
Itinerant Air Cooled Greetings From MCI Central
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
- airkooledchris
- IAC Addict!
- Location: Eureka, California
- Contact:
- Status: Offline
- dtrumbo
- IAC Addict!
- Location: Mill Creek, WA
- Status: Offline
Motor Coach Industries. They make a lot of motor coaches like Greyhound uses although most of the pictures in Colin's post are of non-MCI buses. Flxibles, GMC's and the like. Yeah, I'm a bus geek, VW or otherwise!Birdibus wrote:what is MCI? Mid central interior?
- Dick
1970 Transporter. 2015cc, dual Weber IDF 40's
1978 Riviera Camper. Bone stock GE 2.0L F.I.
1979 Super Beetle convertible.
... as it turns out, it was the coil!
1970 Transporter. 2015cc, dual Weber IDF 40's
1978 Riviera Camper. Bone stock GE 2.0L F.I.
1979 Super Beetle convertible.
... as it turns out, it was the coil!
- hambone
- Post-Industrial Non-Secular Mennonite
- Location: Portland, Ore.
- Status: Offline
Great pics all along, you've been an artist this summer. Must be the shimmering heat inspiring you. And all those clakety miles, MAKE YOU STRONG LIKE BULL.
Urban/industrial decay is very interesting. Also interesting that, although we have learned a great deal technically, our estetic is slowly slipping to Eastern Bloc.
Urban/industrial decay is very interesting. Also interesting that, although we have learned a great deal technically, our estetic is slowly slipping to Eastern Bloc.
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it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine
your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat