late-day stumper
On our way out of work last night, this GM Scenicruiser coach greeted us on Main Street. Despite the lengthy inspection by Publisher Jim Menneto and Senior Editor Jim Donnelly, we couldn’t come up with...
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A new book from Iconografix highlights Highway Buses of the last century photo courtesy Iconografix For all of us who couldn’t see the U.S.A. in our Chevrolets, the alternative way to do it was in an...
View ArticleScenicruiser rally scheduled
restored Scenicruiser #771 in front of the Greyhound bus depot in Blytheville, Arkansas Ever since we ran an article in the January Hemmings Motor News about the GM PD-4501 Scenicruisers, we’ve...
View ArticleGreyhound’s GMCs in Chicago
A recent perusing of the ATHS Forums’ popular What Am I section turned up the above shot of one of 60 so-called “trailer coaches” that Greyhound fielded for the 1933-1934 Chicago Century of Progress...
View ArticleBusmen’s holiday in Arkansas
We recently heard from our pal Tom McNally in Peoria, Illinois, who has a special jones when it comes to certain old vehicles. Tom is one of those people who are into the GM Coach PD-4501 bus, better...
View ArticleTribute to a lost era in American travel
If ever a book on an icon of the American highway was decades overdue, this was it. Nobody had ever written a technical and social history of the GM Coach PD-4501, better known as the Scenicruiser,...
View Article“A Million Miles a Day:” Greyhound reflects on its semicentennial
For the 1964 World’s Fair, participating companies went all out in their efforts to make the best use of such a stage. Ford introduced the Mustang there, Chrysler showed off its Turbine cars there,...
View ArticleFuturama, Rotunda, Autofare, and a big tire: the rest of the 1964 New York...
General Motors Futurama building at the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair. Read all the press releases coming out of Ford lately, and it’d be easy to get the idea that New York City threw a giant party...
View ArticleThe trackless trains of the 1939 New York World’s Fair
Trackless train photos courtesy BusTalk.info. With all the focus recently on the 1964 World’s Fair and the release of the Ford Mustang, we thought it would be interesting to jump back another 25 years...
View ArticleFrom a single Hupmobile to a fleet of 1,552 buses, Greyhound turns 100
1962 Greyhound Super Scenicruiser, built by MCI. Photo courtesy Alden Jewell. Whether or not you have affectionate memories of riding across the country with them or can only think of them as the...
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