In a message dated 11/10/10 8:23:39 AM, healeys-request@autox.team.net
writes:
> Just watched the "Chasing Classic Cars" episode entitled "Road Trip" on
> HD
> Theater last night. The bus was the featured vehicle on Wayne's trip
> up the
> California coast to the Monterey vintage races. Along the way,
> Wayne stopped
> to show it off to Jay Leno, who took it for a test drive.
> Interestingly,
> Wayne had bought the bus for $50k and was trying to sell
> it for $95k. Bus
> looked in great shape
>
The bus seems to be in reasonable shape (Tracy and I saw it at Monterey),
but some conversations among a few knowledgeable folks suggests that it was
not a BMC Training Bus, but rather one of the buses used to transport the
Mini Coopers in a whirlwind round-the-country demo tour the first year they
were on the market. (three pro drivers -- I believe Stirling Moss, Denise
McCluggage, and Innes Ireland, but that's off the top of my head -- drove them
at
various tracks around the country).
In any case, the interior of the bus is completely stripped out except for
vehicle hold-down rails along the floor, but the only opening is through a
door in the side, that would have been big enough for a Mini but not for
anything larger. There is no opening in the tail, as there would have been for
a
works race car hauler, and there's no evidence that there was ever any
interior in the bus of any sort.
Best
Gary
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