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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 176 I have more zippers then a pair of cargo pants | | I have more zippers then a pair of cargo pants Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 176 | Seen this on Craigslist & contacted the guy who's going to being doing Marge, since I don't need another project but knew he's always on the look out for projects to save & restore. He asked me to go look at it & possibly pick it up for him. Long story short I drug it home w/me after sending him picture of it. Oddly the platform for the seats was only on the drivers side, so it must have been planned to be a small bus from the beginning. Early 50's School Bus/Suburban
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Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. ~ Arthur C. Clarke | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 | "Oddly the platform for the seats was only on the drivers side, so it must have been planned to be a small bus from the beginning."
How far across does the seat platform go?
On a normal Suburban, the driver and middle-passenger seat platform goes about 70% across towards the right side. The right-most passenger-seat (that pivots forward) in the 47-55 Suburban is attached to the floor, not a platform.
Good find. Let us know if your friend takes it on as a project. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 176 I have more zippers then a pair of cargo pants | | I have more zippers then a pair of cargo pants Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 176 |  didn't know that Tim, thanks for educating me on that. I do know it was a school bus because of the writing on the side & back. Inside is gutted, but I've seen some of the stuff this guy has done & this burb/bus is in better shape then some of the others he's saved.
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Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. ~ Arthur C. Clarke | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,440 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,440 | It looks 'very restorable'. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 4,168 "Hey! I sound like Darth Vader!! | | "Hey! I sound like Darth Vader!! Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 4,168 | I've seen PMK's work. Too bad he's 3000 miles away from me. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 176 I have more zippers then a pair of cargo pants | | I have more zippers then a pair of cargo pants Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 176 | It looks 'very restorable'. Doubt it'll be restored since as far as I can tell he doesn't restore the trucks. It'll either be put on a late model frame truck frame w/all the modern stuff or cut up to save another one or to built something. As I have seen him say, "Stock stuff doesn't make the money"....joe
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Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. ~ Arthur C. Clarke | | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 | I've seen PMK's work. Too bad he's 3000 miles away from me. What.... Only 3000 miles? Lucky you,I've got a 3000mile wide flippin' big puddle in the way!  I'm astonished at PMKs ability to turn these trucks round as fast as he does. Seems like a decent guy to deal with. He stands by his work too.
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1950 Chevy Advance Design 3100 in ScotlandIn the Stovebolt GalleryMore pix on Flickr. I've definately got this truck thing in my blood ... my DNA sequence has torque settings"Of all the small nations of this earth,perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind" Winston Churchill.
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