SULTANA

[CrabbyMilton]

Some interesting bus eye candy here.
I've always been fascinated with the twin steer axle versions.
Perhaps Jeffery Ornstein on YOUTUBE will do a video on these at some point.

https://myntransportblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/sultana-by-ramirez-trailers-de-monterey-sa-1952-present-monterey-nuevo-leon-mexico/

[plyonsMC9]

Wow!, great pics. 

I did not realize the Scenicruiser ever had the fender skirts.  Very cool!,

Kind Regards, Phil

[Busted Knuckle]

Wow!, great pics. 

I did not realize the Scenicruiser ever had the fender skirts.  Very cool!,

Kind Regards, Phil

They didn't those are Sutana buses! (Scenic clones)
  BK 

[CrabbyMilton]

More like doppelgangers. Of course GM never built a twin steer version.

[plyonsMC9]

I always thought fender skirts on a car looked really nice.  But on a bus - over the top cool!!!

Thanks Knuckle for that clarification.   

Kind Regards, Phil

[Brian R.]

I once road a Sultana (with the double steering axles) from Mexico City to Mexicali. Long trip. It was a regular passenger run, There were two drivers. They always changed drivers without stopping. When the driver got tired they would swap on the run and the tired one would open a trapdoor in the floor and disappear into a bed down below. Brother and I had been climbing mountains around Mex City.

Another time in Bolivia on the "worlds most dangerous road" ( from the high altiplano down to the jungle )( chickens and goats on board and on the roof)  I was in the rt. front passenger seat with a bottle of Pisco to steady my nerves. The driver kept giving me envious glances, and a pleading sort of look , so I handed him the bottle and we shared to the bottom of the descent. I figured what the hell, most of the time the buses make it.

[Iceni John]

Another time in Bolivia on the "worlds most dangerous road" ( from the high altiplano down to the jungle )( chickens and goats on board and on the roof)  I was in the rt. front passenger seat with a bottle of Pisco to steady my nerves. The driver kept giving me envious glances, and a pleading sort of look , so I handed him the bottle and we shared to the bottom of the descent. I figured what the hell, most of the time the buses make it.

Is that why dual steer axles are not uncommon in Peru and Bolivia even now?   I've wondered how many buses there have crashed because of a front tire blowout.

Your bus trip there sounds like many I've taken across Asia, where bus drivers have a disconcertingly fatalistic approach to driving:  "If we all die, it's just the will of Allah".   

John   

[luvrbus]

Is that why dual steer axles are not uncommon in Peru and Bolivia even now?   I've wondered how many buses there have crashed because of a front tire blowout.

Your bus trip there sounds like many I've taken across Asia, where bus drivers have a disconcertingly fatalistic approach to driving:  "If we all die, it's just the will of Allah".   

John

Riding the buses to the job site in Saudi everyday you always wondered is this guy going to kill us  today in the name of Allah 

[CrabbyMilton]

I once road a Sultana (with the double steering axles) from Mexico City to Mexicali. Long trip. It was a regular passenger run, There were two drivers. They always changed drivers without stopping. When the driver got tired they would swap on the run and the tired one would open a trapdoor in the floor and disappear into a bed down below. Brother and I had been climbing mountains around Mex City.

Another time in Bolivia on the "worlds most dangerous road" ( from the high altiplano down to the jungle )( chickens and goats on board and on the roof)  I was in the rt. front passenger seat with a bottle of Pisco to steady my nerves. The driver kept giving me envious glances, and a pleading sort of look , so I handed him the bottle and we shared to the bottom of the descent. I figured what the hell, most of the time the buses make it.

How in the world can they get out the seat and switch without even stopping? If that's not dangerous I don't know what is. Then add "sipping medicine" to the mix. I guess the owner doesn't care as long as the people get to their destination.
This reminds me of my high school days riding the transit bus. One time coming home, I had a driver in training with an instructor sitting on the side facing seat.  The kids behind me had a shakes or malts. The instructor came back and told them that it's ok to hang on to the shakes but don't drink them on the bus. One of them said...Whoa who's driving the bus? Then seeing the trainee driving...Oh, I thought the bus was going by itself.