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Rich
Top Member
United States
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 Posted - 06/18/2003 : 7:28:46 PM
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This is a school bus used in the movie Dumb and Dumberer.
Did Ward actually build such a small bus, or is it a rebuild? I'm betting on a rebuild, since the rear passenger window is so much smaller. |
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SuperiorGMC1963
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USA
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Posted - 06/18/2003 : 8:13:12 PM
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| Wow! That bus might be shorter than my Camry! Great job of shortening it! |
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Jim
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 06/18/2003 : 8:21:29 PM
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| Is it just me or is that bus off the ground? Looks like its jumping something. |
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1983WardFord
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 06/18/2003 : 8:49:27 PM
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Originally posted by MRJim
Is it just me or is that bus off the ground? Looks like its jumping something.
It was... Well, it was going over a hill at a high rate of speed. It was a "try to lose the car following you" deal. |
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thomasfan892
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 06/19/2003 : 03:37:55 AM
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| That bus looks cool, but I prefer larger buses. |
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Bus Boy 39
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 06/19/2003 : 06:18:24 AM
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That bus was actually rebuilt. I watched a special on the movie on MTV. The back half of the bus is actually a Blue Bird and the front half is a Ward. What the did was cut away both buses and connected them. The wanted a small bus like that so it could do some nice stunts {Jumping the hill, flying around town, racing}. Both of the buses were 66 passenger, and why they just didn't use one bus and make it shorter is unknown to me. I guess the Blue Bird maybe had better back-end suspension?
Anyway, it took the movie people a whole year to locate two buses and rebuild it. The engine in there is also rebuild....It's was monstered up to make it run races better as they do in the city. |
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Buskid
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 06/19/2003 : 06:48:56 AM
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It's part-Blue Bird, part-Ward? Wow, I never knew that. I wonder what Blue Bird components they used on it. The only visible part I see on there that could've come from a Blue Bird is the cowl. The rest of the front-end and rear-end are definitely from a Ward.
That's interesting! |
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busdrver4jesus
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 06/19/2003 : 6:07:43 PM
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| I have watched that movie several times, and for the life of me, I can't recall seeing that bus in the movie. What scene was it in? |
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Thomas Ford 85-16
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USA
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Posted - 06/19/2003 : 6:27:09 PM
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Originally posted by busdrver4jesus
I have watched that movie several times, and for the life of me, I can't recall seeing that bus in the movie. What scene was it in?
It was in the sequal, not the first one. I don't think you'd have time to see the sequal several times if it just came out!  |
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SuperiorGMC1963
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 06/19/2003 : 7:06:45 PM
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| Hmmmm Half Blue Bird and half Ward. Does that make it a Ward Bird? Or maybe a Blue Ward? |
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Buskid
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USA
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Posted - 06/19/2003 : 7:22:14 PM
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| I like Blue Ward. |
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american busing 2
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Posted - 06/20/2003 : 03:44:10 AM
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| i like ward bird |
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busdrver4jesus
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 06/20/2003 : 05:26:58 AM
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Oh - now I feel dumb and dumberer! I did not realize they had a sequal coming out! I miss read the title. I did not see the other "er" in dumber!
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98TomFord
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 06/21/2003 : 11:25:31 AM
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I have to say it's one cool ooking bus! I think they should call it Ward-Bird, it sounds cool. |
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Steven A.Rosenow
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USA
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Posted - 06/21/2003 : 12:51:47 PM
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| For some odd reason, the back end of the bus just doesn't resemble a Blue Bird... |
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B. Busguy33
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USA
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Posted - 06/21/2003 : 5:10:03 PM
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Looks like a 100% Ward body to me.
I also fail to see where they would attach two halves of two different bus bodies to make one bus body. Sounds easier to just cut one bus body to build a bus such as that. |
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SuperiorGMC1963
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 06/21/2003 : 7:53:02 PM
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| I agree! They say that a picture is worth a thousand words and by the looks of that bus the body appears to be 100% Ward...which would make sense. |
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unimog
New Member
USA
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Posted - 06/24/2003 : 06:38:28 AM
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| Cool Stunt Bus, some of our fellow comarades could use that one, specially the ones that cannot back up or turn around at all... |
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