Save these 70's buses coaches from the scrapman

[oman5]

Presumably most of these would be old enough to be speed limiter exempt? Not going to be much of an issue with Bedfords admittedly, but something with a Leyland TL11 engine and a high-ratio diff should be able to bomb along at 70+, leaving the flashy new National Express Scanias choking in its exhaust smoke.

 

and the rest!! I used to go to school on stuff like this, My Faves were Leyland Leopards and AEC reliances, both with panorama elite II bodies. both of these could go off the clock. The AEC had the AV760 engine (which went on to become the TL12) and went like stink

[rml2345]

A bit off topic, but Midland Red's first motorway coaches would do 90ish... In 1959.

A good Leopard is capable of topping 80, so you could certainly keep up with the traffic in one.

[dieselnutjob]

Instructions:-

1 buy, insure etc

2 reduce to nine seats

3 register it with DVLA as nine seat MPV

4 register it with TFL as congestion charge exempt

5 register it with TFL as LEZ exempt

6 paint "F U TFL" down the side

7 drive around central London causing as much chaos as possible

[Cavcraft]

Any update on the coaches? I hope to God they get saved, but short of finding a buyer for my CLK and arranging storage I'm out. If anyone does fancy some sort of 'group' save I'd chip in a bit.

Maybe we could find a disused airfield or something and have bi-monthly meets where we could all have a drive.

[2cvspecial]

cymru !

[Dick Cheeseburger]

39 minutes ago, 2cvspecial said:

cymru !

 Bloody hell! I've just sent info on this to a fella massively into his 70s/80s coaches.  Will now have to tell him to disregard the message as the content was from almost a decade ago...

I wonder what became of them? That's crazy that the 75 YRT didn't sell for £850 and was subsequently scrapped. 😕

[CortinaDave]

Looks like this one survived at least... passed a few more MOTS but on a sorn since 2015.

The others mostly don't seem to have been tested again after 2012 so I presume they were scrapped 

[Lankytim]

Scrapped? Urgh. I blame myself. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

10 hours ago, CortinaDave said:

Looks like this one survived at least... passed a few more MOTS but on a sorn since 2015.... 

That reminds me of the oul Wallace Arnold livery....