Classic buses and trains in Abano Terme, Padova with Fondazione FS and Storicbus
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- In the video I got mixed up with numbers:
1) the Fiat 370 is a 370.12.25, i.e. 12 metres long and with a 250 HP V6 engine.
2) the Fiat 306 is powered by the horizontal version of the Fiat 203 (not 306!) in line six cylinder engine, which also powered the Fiat 682n trucks and other Fiat trucks and buses. The two tone blue Fiat 306 Cameri belongs to my old friend Giovanni Perati, a true master of non-syncro gearboxes and on UA-cam as / @giannixatikarus
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The second bus will give you a big clutch leg!
Nice video Patrick, very interesting 👍🏼
Makes me think of the Ford coach that took me to and from college in the 80's. That had a front engine with a hump next to the driver. He was only a small chap, but he had to double declutch like a good'un, slowing to walking pace going from 1st to 2nd (or so it seemed).
Memories of listening to Steve Wright on the coach radio. LOL
@ Fond memories!
I always enjoyed Steve Wright.
We had a bus driver that did the Bangor to Donaghadee school route.
He had the sideburns like Elvis and the slicked back hair.
You can guess what the kids called him and sang on the bus.
It just made him drive faster so you got home earlier 😂
He was never without a feg hanging out of his mouth either!
We didn’t have any Fords in Ulsterbus, mostly Leyland, but I think may have been built under license in NI.
@@bugler75 "Ask Elvis" LOL
Wrights "Zoo Format" was revolutionary.
Do you remember Tony Blackburn & Arnold? Or Stewpot on Saturday mornings? He always seemed to play "My Bruvver" by Terry Scott. Or the Ying Tong song.
I wonder what you asked the bus driver to make him drive so fast? :)
Our bus was operated by a local independent called Pam's Coaches. The coach was ex Shearings up in Manchester. Most of the other coaches and buses on our schools contract were independents. You had anything from a brand new Bova to an old 1967 centre entrance Plaxton bodied AEC Reliance (ex Glenton Tours, London). Interesting times.
I guess Ulsterbus helped the Bristol RE to stay in production, they liked those, didn't they?
Lots of exercise! But a well trained driver can perform clutchless changes by listening to the engine revs.
I remember the Italian military with Fiat 306 and 308 (the medium weight coach) with this type of Cameri bodywork in the late 70s and 80s. By the time I was called up the coaches were Fiat 370s, usually the 10 metre 370.10.20 version, with the 200 HP Fiat-Unic 8220 engine. They also had the more powerful 25 version, usually on a 10 metre chassis, but I remember alsi seeing 12 metre versions. In my time mini/,idi-buses were either OM/Iveco A55s with Fiat bodies or Iveco A90 with Cacciamali bodywork. I remember dozing off with an MG42/59 machine gun between my legs in the back of an A90, on the way to target practice, having been lumbered with 12 kg of machine gun. There was dozing off when we were travelling by lorry, the Italian army keeps tarpaulins rolled up on the sides and back when transporting troops, with the benches along the centre, so on a cold winter day you got your head blown off and sleeping was out of the question.