1969 General Motors T6H-4521 New Look #22 Ex-ETS Part 1 of 2
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- Опубліковано 29 бер 2008
- #22 is a 1969 General Motors T6H-4521 35 foot long New Look bus, originally belonging to Edmonton Transit System as #22, it was retired in 1998 and restored by a private owner in Calgary some years later. This video was taken in March 2008, age 39 for the bus! See the Detroit Diesel 6V71N come to life from a cold start in this video, PART 1 OF 2, part 2 is an interior video.
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A truly timeless classic machine, I absolutely love the GM New Look, they weren't just the best looking bus, but the most reliable & best built too, a crying shame they have all been replaced by rubbish now, its the same story here in the UK :(
I remember my old bus. I do miss it at times, but at least we got to take it for a good drive before it went back to Edmonton Transit to join their historic collection.
I love to collection of buses you have in your lot. We have about 5 that we are working on now. 1965, 1972, 1982, 1983 GM New Looks, and a 1985 GM Classic.
Love that beautiful Detroit Diesel 6V71 sound! These buses certainly bring back alot of very happy memories! I'm an all time Detroit Diesel fan! Love them Detroits! Pretty looking bus too!
man, i remember these busses!
melts my butter! Just beautiful~!
THIS is the look and sound of city buses I remember as a kid.
Now We're Cooking. Throwback "All The Way". Now That's A Memory To Live With. Nice Video My Friend.
And of course, people such as you have these. Helps to preserve these. A number of agencies still use these..
Yea, two speed. top speed for most of these buses was about 80-90km/h. the 2 speed transmission was very common with these buses from 1959-1977. And these buses were sold in mass quantities all over North America. Still works just fine for routes that stayed on city roads.
Our area had this bus but it was the GM T6H-4521A that was purchased by the Mercer County (NJ) Improvement Authority (They ran the Mercer Metro before New Jersey Transit took it over in 1984) in 1970, and ran on Mercer County (NJ) Streets from 1970 until 1985. These were the only Fishbowls that were purchased new.
in Toronto till about a year ago TTC (Toronto Transit Commission ) which is public transit still used these buses, you see less of these being towed then the new ones that they are using now. I like the look of this bus classic,
@smokefreak2006 Exactly! Forget making buses quieter. If they sound like this they deserve to be loud!
Understand that this Detroit Diesel is a 2 stroke cycle engine..It only revs to around 2400rpm but since each cylinder fires on EVERY downstroke, it sounds as if it's revving twice as fast. At 4:55 in the vid you can clearly hear the blower whine, COOL!
97SCT, that bus used to be owned by myself too. It was a 1960 GM TDH5301 from Winnipeg, #271. The bus was in a little rough shape with rust and corrosion all over, engine was tired, and needed a ton of work. If I had the money and connections like I did with my 1969 T6H4521, I may have considered fixing the TDH5301 instead. I also didn't have access to the parts until after I sold the bus unfortunately. Now that Winnipeg Transit bus had been removed from the property and scrapped
I hope you guys will show it on video when it will be done! ;) Fishbowl and Classics are my favorite! In Quebec City Transit they have a few 1985 and 86 Classics left but they will out of service in june 08... To bad!
Whenever is see a GM new look speeding in a highway like in action it reminds me of speed
Yes, the 6V71.
It's actually one speed and torque converter. The VS2 is two speeds+torque converter, and the V730 three speeds+torque converter.
The earlier Fishbowls and GM Old look buses have only one speed. it uses the torque converter to start out and get up to speed, then locks and directly drives the wheels.
They used 40 and 35 footers, there were roughly a dozen different buses for different scenes. Some interior scenes used 35 footers.
@MrRackensack You're rite. They should've used an RTS 4sp PBN AT.
Sort of, same basic model yes. But the one's in speed were a little different.
The bus has a 2 speed transmission. It would be difficult to get any sort of decent speed without getting the engine to work hard into its highest RPMs
None that I know of. Long gone several years ago to the best of my knowledge.
Oh look mostly Fishbowl buses and one MCI MC9 Crusader ii Coach that GMC Fishbowl is gotta be 35feet or 40feet transit bus
With the engine sitting so far back behind the wheels how did the transmission attach to the engine and the rear wheels? The engine is positioned laterally and I'm assuming the transmission is attached to the engine in the same fashion as in front wheel drive cars. If thats not the case then how does the power reach the wheels.
Looks like there's an ex-Winnipeg Transit bus beside it.
When I see a new look bus I think of the movie speed
I grew up on Boston T New Looks. I'm visiting Boston again in April, for the first time in a long time. Anyone know if there are any New Looks in service in the Boston area at all?
Definitely has power steering!!
They used the 40 footers, right?
do you know how many litre's the engine is i miss these old 6v71n engines i read on a wiki page that its classified as a v6 diesel engine now most of are current buses new flyer xd40's uses a cummin's l9 clean diesel engine's i remember riding these old 1960's gm new look buses when i was a little boy i think in 1994 i do miss the old bell noise they made when you pull the chord i heard there are still some sitting at a1 auto salvage on highway 16a
that's wat i thought, 40 and 35 footers in speed, but the funny thing is the jump looks like a 35ft, but the making of the movie was a 40ft, well watever if ur not a bus lover u won't notice but i did so that makekme a buslover!!!!....lol
the startup thing is just how rgrta's orion v 1154 died. It wouldn't start up
@kevlo86
Much more common that what some other baby fishbowls had, an Allison MT 543.
AT540, AT545 or MT643. However, the MT644, MT647 and HT747 were all available in the Orion I since 1983 (MT647 since 1985-86).
RIP GM two stroke
how many liters is it?
4:54 to 5:01 it sounds like a D40
its a 7.2 liter v6
What is the speed limit of this bus or of the bus from speed?
Technically 90 km/h (about 50-60 miles) but realistically you wouldn't get it that fast
Yea, two speed. top speed for most of these buses was about 80-90km/h. the 2 speed transmission was very common with these buses from 1959-1977. And these buses were sold in mass quantities all over North America. Still works just fine for routes "
They're still around in Southern California.