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Offline MagnoliaBus

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Re: Engine removal this summer
« Reply #15 on: April 20, 2019, 02:06:35 PM »
Well, you live in Prevost country so expertise should be easy to find.  When I was moving to Nova Scotia I was running up and down AR20 four or five times a month, and always noticed the Prevost places along side the highway.  I used to stop for fuel at a Esso station at the Montmagny exit, and there was an unmarked building next door, plus a big bay door on the service station building.  One time I was there and the bay door was open - it was a paint booth and a brand new Prevost RV shell was getting a custom paint job, there were two more fully masked buses in the parking lot (just the driver's windshield was open) and the doors of the unmarked building were open revealing around a 10 - 12 bay bus workshop.  Very neat, sez I... :)
I looked at it on google map and it seem to be a body shop (Chabot Carrosserie). On street view, you can see a lot of Novabus transit buses. They must be doing some works for Prevost (Volvo).
"four or five times a month"... that's a lot of traveling ! Where were you coming from ? if i may ask...
Denis, North of Montreal, 1989 Prevost XL40, 8V92TA HT740

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Re: Engine removal this summer
« Reply #16 on: April 20, 2019, 02:10:43 PM »
    Montmagny!  My Quebecois accordeon was made in Montmagny.  I go to visit most summers.  I had no idea that the buildings at "Prochaine Sortie" were bus shops.
That would be so cool !!!

I didn't know there was an annual gathering of accordionist in Montmagny (80 musicians coming from 12 countrys). That's great !
Denis, North of Montreal, 1989 Prevost XL40, 8V92TA HT740

Offline Oonrahnjay

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Re: Engine removal this summer
« Reply #17 on: April 20, 2019, 08:02:47 PM »
  That would be so cool !!!

I didn't know there was an annual gathering of accordionist in Montmagny (80 musicians coming from 12 countrys). That's great !

      Oui!  Le Carrefour Mondial du Accordian (Accordeon).  It is a weekend long orgy of accordeon music from all the world -- all the four corners!  Fabulous concerts and soirees de danse every night. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg7zSp7QP6E
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Re: Engine removal this summer
« Reply #18 on: April 21, 2019, 10:52:10 AM »
I was moving from Hamilton to Nova Scotia, so a lot of weeks I would drive one way on the weekend, work for the week telecommuting, drive home the next weekend, and so on.  Pickup towing a 20ft car hauler full of household goods one way, empty on the return trips.  Took around 20 - 25 trips.  I was very happy when the AR30 extension was finished and I didn't have to go into Montreal.
1980 MCI MC-5C, 8V-71T from a M-110 self propelled howitzer
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Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia

 

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