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  • converted buses for sale
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  • sell your converted bus online
  • bus conversion events
  • bus camper conversion
  • sell your converted bus online
  • bus conversion magazine
  • bus conversion forum
  • advertise in bus conversion magazine
  • vanlife and buslife community events
  • bus conversion magazine
  • converted buses for sale
  • converted buses for sale
  • bus conversion events
  • advertise in bus conversion magazine
  • bus conversion forum
  • bus camper conversion
  • Truck Conversions
  • bus conversion classifieds
  • vanlife and buslife community events
  • bus conversion membership
  • bus conversion membership
  • Tiny House
  • skoolie bus conversion
  • skoolie bus conversion
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  • RV conversion meetups
  • sell your converted bus online
  • Truck Conversions
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PD4501

4501PD

The PD-4501 Scenicruiser, the most distinctive parlor bus design of the modern era, was the result of five years of effort based on a design by Raymond Loewy. Originally conceived as a 35-foot bus, Greyhound used a tandem-axle, 40-foot prototype called the GX-2 to successfully lobby for the lifting of restrictions against operation of 40-foot buses.

The first Scenicruiser rolled out in July, 1954 and was followed by 1,000 more.

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The design was revolutionary in many respects. Seating was on two levels with ten passengers behind the driver on the lower level and 33 above in the rear, over the baggage compartments. Power was provided by two Detroit Diesel 4-71 engines driving through a fluid coupling. This installation proved to be less than successful and the 979 buses remaining were rebuilt with DDA 8V-71 engines and 4-speed manual Spicer transmissions during 1961 and 1962 by the Marmon-Herrington Corporation.

Information from the Bus World Encyclopedia of Buses - 1988

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