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MCI Conversion Interior Shell Build
The bus was looking so much better on the inside with all of the paneling up on the walls and the back area shell completed. Cleaning up was easier, too. Everything was slowly becoming new where before it was all old and nasty. It was a lot of work to get it to this point,…
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Installing MCI Bus Lower Bins
Here are some more photos of the lower bins and the work we did to finish them off.
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Painting the MCI Bus Panels
In the photos below you can see the panels that were installed where the windows used to be. The back panel is where our bedroom would eventually be and the center panels were where the bathroom and kitchen pantry area were to be located. Taking out the windows meant that we could build inside from…
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Taking the City Bus Ticker Down
At this writing, I can say that I really wish we had kept the City Ticker Roll for some later project, but we did not. We managed to get the steel box removed from the front of the bus with a grinder and many hours of work. Then we removed the ticker from the box…
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MCI Bus Clean Up Begins
The big red bus was purchased and was now parked in front of our new headquarters (the diner turned into our shop and offices). Now the real fun began. In addition to removing the lavatory in the rear of the bus, we also removed all the siding/paneling from the inside and most of the rubber…
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Installing the AC Units on our MCI Bus Conversion
The first of two AC units are now installed and working. It is really really hot here, I am sure we will use this AC for all its worth. This was actually an amazing amount of work to get these two A/C units on the top of the bus, cut the holes in the steel,…
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Our MCI-9 Bus Conversion is Under Way
We now finished the painting on the side of the bus where the windows were taken out. You can’t see to much from the photo but I think Scott would rather the photo be taken from this far away being that this was his first paint job on a vehicle.
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Finding the Right MCI Bus for a Conversion
After the quilt show in Fort Lauderdale we headed for Heartland Motor Coach in Ocala, FL (update: they are no longer in business) to look at a few buses they would have that might be suitable for our new bus conversion project (or our traveling home). They had two or three that we were interested…
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We Bought an MCI-9 Bus for Conversion
After the quilt show in Fort Lauderdale we headed for Heartland Motor Coach in Ocala, FL to look at a few busses. They had two or three that we were interested in. Scott had been discussing the various ones available and prices with Ron, the salesman there, through email and now we were actually going…
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An Office to Park the Bus
What would possess a moderately intelligent couple to move from the house in the photo below to the Kountry Kitchen, also below? At the time these photos were taken, we had our “reasons.” However, in hindsight, it is always easier to see what the real goal was. We had been living in this beautiful house…
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