THE dream bus of dream buses-

[dburt]

Does anyone have an extra 450K they can give me?? I found my dream bus on EbayMotors. I can just see this pup as my ultimate rolling home! Check this out: Item number: 320450117312

Of course there are some mods to be made, the rolling nighclub thing would have to go.

I think I am in love

(Maby Rudy or someone technologically advanced can post some pics of it)

[Griff]

Check's in the mail, Dburt!
That's a lot of pics, so here's the link instead.

(My bad, Rudy, (it wraps in my browser, too...))

[Rudy]

DB, I have over a dozen pics of it I will post them later today.

Griff, That link is so long that it is screwing up the scroll bar. Perhaps you can make it so that it is not so wide. If all you are looking for is the photos, then you can edit out that link altogether and just type in a few words about how you feel about Neoplan buses. I don't know if you will be able to delete your post, now that one has followed it. When you shorten your post, all of the posts will go to the proper size as well.
I have worked on the inside of a Neoplan before and will tell you that the first floor is only 5 feet tall. It is the second floor that you can stand up in.
Pics will be here this afternoon. Rudy

[Sharkey]

Rudy, you'd be best off to get a better browser, the eBay address Griff posted wraps nicely on my screen and does not disrupt the page formatting.

Having said that, it is possible to put nasty, long addresses into a neat link by using the {url} formatting provided by the forum software. The following is the code necessary to do this:

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[url=http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_rdc=1&item=320450117312&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.ebay.com%3A80%2Fi.html%3F_nkw%3D320450117312%26_sacat%3D0%26_trksid%3Dp3286.m270.l1313%26_odkw%3Dauctions%26_osacat%3D0%26_fvi%3D1&viewitem=]Click here to see the bus[/url]

(That's "[url=" followed by the address, then "]" , insert the text you want to be "hot", and finish with "[/url]" (no quotation marks in your code these are just for the demonstration, also no spaces allowed in the address code)

Will result in the following on the forum page:

Click here to see the bus

You can read more about BBCode in the Userguide Userguide Section 4_2_5 (scroll down a bit in that section).

There are also online services to make URL's more compact, check out:
http://www.tinyurl.com
which turns the eBay address into this:
http://tinyurl.com/yf9a2y6

A few photos of the bus would be appreciated, I can no longer see any images whatsoever on eBay auctions, they have cobbled the code so thorougly that my proxy software can't deal with it.

[Dennis The Bus Dweller]

Hmm, It's a cool rig but BIG in size and small on craftsmanship

[Rudy]

WOW! Something's weird. I went to some topics on different forums Sharkey's site, and they are all OK. I don't know what's up with this one. Oh well, here are a bunch of pictures of that Neoplan bus.

[Rudy]

Here are three of the inside.

[Rudy]

Here is one of the bathroom. I worked on a Neoplan once. There were two of these factory built bathrooms on the first floor. As I mentioned earlier, the ceiling on the first floor was only five feet tall. There was a stairwell that went to the second floor. It was there that you could stand up. The photos of the interior were of the second floor.



Another shot of the Outside.

[Rudy]

A shot of the generator, and two of the engine. UH OH! Is that a Caterpillar engine? Just kidding. It is a Detroit diesel.







A final note: I am not quite sure how they have this bus laid out, but I am presuming that of the two Neoplans I have seen, it is always the top floor that has the taller ceiling.

[Rudy]

Sharkey, I am using Google Chrome for my web browser.

[Sharkey]

Rudy, thanks for posting pics. The interior of that thing is FUGLY!!! I guess no one would care if their main intent was to get drunk on cheap beer on the way to some sporting event or concert. Amazing that is has all that open glass on the upper deck and most of it is covered by overhead upholstery. That and it would be like traveling in a tin can without a front windshield on the top floor. Every other one of these I've seen had a nice observation deck up there so you could get a close-up look at traffic signals and overhead wires.

[Rudy]

Sharkey, I agree about the industrial ugliness of the building of that bus. The article said that it took five years to bring it to that point. I could poop on a pile in the woods for that long and come up with the same results. I think it is absolutely ridiculous that they covered up the front window on the top floor. What a great place to look out of when traveling down the road.

I don't know why, but this thread is still way too wide. I did format my photos to fit. They are 640X480. It's not me.

I have to go see the wizard now. He will know what to do.

[dburt]

Rudy, you almost blew my romantic yen for this diamond in the rough when you said it had a CAT engine! Heresy!! Then I realized you were spoofing us. The Las Vegas lounge lizard motif is a big turn off for me, but I am trying to visualize the bus in serene shades of different greens with lots of real wood and some white trim, sort of like an update Adirondack cabin. And starlite or vista dome-type window on the front to see out, I would get antsy without lots of windows to see out of.

It was hard for me to swallow the rather large asking price for the finished product. The fake Vegas atmosphere does zip for me!

This bus reminds me of the 2-story Pickwick sleeper coaches of the '30's, as seen in the book American Buses.

[GoodClue]

Dburt ...
Been looking for images on the net of the Pickwicks ... have about a half dozen including models but none of the interiors ... I love the old busses, if you run across any interior layouts of the Pickwick I'd sure like to see them ...
Doug

[Rudy]

I will look.