One thing we haven’t run across much of is collectors who like to have an old bus or two in their collection. We guess, like fire trucks, while the appreciation for them exists, the space and resources for something as big as a bus doesn’t, so they’re mostly sent off to museums or transformed into RVs. This 1948 GMC TDH-3207 transit bus for sale on Hemmings.com, however, has managed to remain stock and in running shape and out of a museum. From the seller’s description:
This specific “old-look” GMC bus is a 1948 model TDH-3207 which stood for Transit Diesel Hydraulic Automatic Transmission and spent most of its life in Madison Wisconsin. There were only 737 of this specific model built in 1948 through the GM Truck and Coach Division. The 1948 TDH bus is powered by a Detroit Diesel 471 inline 6 cylinder diesel engine and connected to a Spicer 91 angle drive 2 speed transmission. The TDH-3207 has been fully restored inside and out using the correct tri tone color combination of a white roof, dark green middle and pale green bottom color. The exterior also features front and rear double folding doors, Slanted front windshield glass, Southern California Rapid Transit District badging and side placards. This specific TDH is a 28 passenger seated bus with polished hand rails and recovered vinyl seats in the correct pale green color. The interior also has a period correct fare box, period correct epoxy plastic white steering wheel with GMC center badge, complete dash board with speedometer, oil pressure gauge, air pressure gauge as well as all the switches for exterior lights, dome lights, headlights high and low, step light, buzzer, sign control and door controls. The mileage was last recorded on 1/1/84 at 730,862 miles. The bus rides on a full air suspension with air brakes as well as 20 inch 6 lug steel wheels wrapped in Power King tube style tires all the way around.
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