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JIPJOBXX

JIPJOBXX

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Oh I see it now and boy that was quite an unusual rig! Here is a motor home on Craig List Seattle for $500 dollars!

I saw this a few years ago and the guy wanted 5000 dollars for it and my buddy stated to me as we were looking at that he would haft to pay us 5000 dollars to take it.:D

http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/rvs/1664543522.html

TodFitch

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I wonder how those front opening windows on the driver's compartment were secured. Seems like they would get ripped all the way open if you were traveling at any significant speed.

The general styling looks like late 1930s but with the references to jet technology as noted by claybill, I'm guessing late 1940s for that bus.

Edit: The Internet Movie Database says that the movie Stolen Harmony was made in 1935: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027043/

That jet engine treatment on the back with what appears to be a swept tail/wing on the back sure don't look like 1935 to me. The rest kind of sort of does.

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Furylee2

Furylee2

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Your picture disdappeared. It was there when I first read this thread but now it is the dreded red X

That's all I get. And I didn't get to see it a first time.

randroid

randroid

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Folks,

Actually, that style was just coming into vogue in the thirties and is not as out of place as it may seem. Aviation had the public's imagination and while jet aircraft weren't in production they were very much on the drawing boards. My Dad, a night-fighter pilot for the USMC, once told his brother that the reason the US didn't have an operational jet during WWII was lack of technology to create bearings that could stand the extreme heat inherent in such engines. Presumably that hurdle has been crossed since then.

-Randy

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