I’ve been scratching under my hat over a number of issues regarding that old school bus as a potential escape route, studying pictures taken last time in town. Wondering how a person might get around various problems.
One that jumps out immediately is the fact there’s no way of locking the doors, either the front, or the emergency door. So a person who didn’t fix that problem wouldn’t want to be a sound sleeper. Or go off out-of-sight of it if he had anything inside he wanted there when he got back.
Another is that no obvious place to mount a spare tire seems to be included in the design. I suppose a person might rig a way to keep one on the roof if there’s no place underneath to hang it.
Those wheels appear to weigh 75 pounds or more, though, so getting them up there would be a growth experience.
Interestingly, there appears to be an old Volkswagen living underneath there.
Evidently it was retrofitted to power a huge refrigeration air conditioning complex above the rows of seats, both sides. My thought is that the shelves are nice, but the refrigerator is gonna have to come out. Maybe the VW engine, too, so’s to make room for a spare tire.
Meanwhile, the windows don’t lock shut and some screens would have to be rigged to keep insects out and provide a disincentive for cats jumping out open windows to explore the highway.
I’ve always wanted something with a lot of switches to try to figure out as I drive along.
Nothing about it, I reckons, that can’t be overcome, but a challenge or two if the thing decides to jump into my life.
[I was watching for a place in here to use the word ‘footfeet’ because it’s such a novel piece of language history involving automobiles. For the unaware, people used to call the brake, clutch and throttle pedals ‘footfeet’. But there’s not a lot I can think of to say about the footfeet of this bus. Hmmm, except,]
The footfeet appear to be intact, adequate and functional.
Old Jules
So Far From Heaven 