As much as I love this. I don’t $8,250 love this. I would probably swing at it for 5k but I also don’t know what others are selling for.

We’ve been doing this for decades. Those grader operators are heroes. We may complain about potholes in the pavement, but Alabama has some of the best-looking dirt roads in the country and I will die on that hill. (And you can be assured the road leading up that hill will be gorgeous, too.)

They have AC.  If you want WORKING AC, that’s too bad.  After all, it’s Texas.  No water breaks or shade for workers there, after all.  They’re just training the kids to be ready to work.

The “lifted truck” hate is a weird one to me. I think you need to specify as there are many different ways to lift a truck and for different purposes.

So I just looked up the specs on this thing. Should do about 30mpg on the highway and it has a 23.8 gallon tank — so that’s about 700 miles between fillips. And this “beast” weighs in at just 3836 lbs. A 2024 911 Turbo is just a few pounds behind at 3646. Crazy.

“address reports of air conditioning not working on school buses.”

Don’t worry, the Legislature will swoop in and cut more school funding. That will solve the problem.

No one has ever bought a Chevy Equinox — or any other compact crossover for that matter — based on how well it drove and how quick it was.

Yes, I did a typo, pedantic know it all, thanks. Now you can go correct other peoples posts. Thanks for reminding the world you are perfect.

If we were little shits when growing up the last thing our driver would do is go slow, the sooner rid of us the better, after one time of the bus going back to the school us kids listened, the trouble makers parents got extra pissed having to come get them from the principal and the rest of us got pissed that we spent…

Not to say I’ve been a school bus driver, but I have been guilty of locking the windows and lighting off an extra juicy fart just to hear the kids start screaming.

This was standard bus driver behavior when I was in school. Some thing, podunk location, dirt roads even. You had to have permission to put the windows down, and they’d deny as punishment. Our district had private contractor drivers who had their own buses. One old woman never shut off coolant flow to the rear heater…

Driving a bus full of kids with no AC going 6mph is just punishing the driver. No sane person would do that to themselves.

I have been in the classroom for over 25 years and I would never drive a school bus. I am shocked more of them do not loose it every now and then. The kids parents probably have trained the kids to treat the bus drivers like crap or like a servant. 

If you don’t like rolling coal, that’s fine - I agree with you 100%

You might want to look up the meaning of the word “most”.

Yes, or the owners are people for whom a few thousand dollars is pocket change, so quick conversation “we really should sell the old diesel since nobody drives it anymore” “ok, I will take it to the shop and have the maintenance done” tells local shop guy who they use and trust to get it ready to sell. $5000 later car…

My guess is, that fuel pump went or was on it’s way out the door, and it’s way easier to sell a running car than a non-running one. Add in the glow plugs (not really up on diesels, but maybe you do that at the same time as a pump normally, or maybe after 184k miles, they were on their last legs as well?), the cost of…

So, to the ban everything guy, why are you at a car site again? Most of what you hate is perfectly harmless. You’re getting your blood pressure up over nothing. Oh no, flame decals, someone call the authorities!

I’ve had a few of these over the years and they are getting harder and harder to find. Mechanically, absolute tanks. The main killer is rust, and sometimes transmission issues...but 95% its rust. This looks rust free, and 185k is nothing on the mechanical bits. Easy NP, these are delightful to drive, work on, and go…