I just found a 1977 Superior? Chevy bus on ebay. It has an electric door. I didn't think that you could get that on a school bus back then. I'm not sure if it's a Superior or not.
You could most definitly get some form of powered door on Superiors back them. A district near me got them on their Superiors from arround 70-79. The contiued with air door on all their buses from 70-87. From 88-95 they got manual, and then went back to air in 96. Just thought i'd let ya know that air door Superiors are ( well were) out there! Greg
I wonder how reliable Superior's electric door was, considering how junky the electric doors are even on buses built today.
I'm very surprised that they even offered electric doors back then. Of course they offered air doors on the Type Cs and Ds, but electric truly shocks me, no pun intended.
It shouldn't be a shock. The chassis had no air supply so if the customer didn't want a manual door they had relativey few alternative choices. Electric would have been one of them.
Electric doors have been a struggle for all manufacturers through the years so I am guessing the Superior version was the same.
Notice the Pacemaker was an 84" wide body rather than what would be considered a standard 96" wide body.
Interesting Chevy bus on ebay
Posted - 02/26/2005 : 6:29:12 PM
It shouldn't be a shock. The chassis had no air supply so if the customer didn't want a manual door they had relativey few alternative choices. Electric would have been one of them.