On Yellowstone's 150th anniversary, we drive a 1936 bus that toured the park's 2.2M acres

[Hagerty]

Los Angeles County is a 15-hour drive from Yellowstone National Park, so it may seem like an odd place to get up close and personal with a classic Yellowstone tour bus. Nevertheless, Winslow Bent is stoked to be here, and so are we.
https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/on-yellowstones-150th-anniversary-we-drive-a-1936-b...

[roamic]

I've always admired those buses. My stepfather drove one in college, maybe at Bryce? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M1dmsQbQTQ

[Seadog]

Hagerty's articles have delighted me many times over the years and this one was no exception. I was blown away to learn a guy writing for Hagerty was a neophyte for driving any manual transmission. It stands in stark contrast to my experience as a woman who started her double-clutching career by learning to drive a '37 White fire engine. It was an antique by the time we finagled its donation to our volunteer fire department in the redwoods of California, but it served us well.

A few years later, I progressed to driving a '64 Kenworth in Utah. She had a 4X4 transmission with a granny box; two transmissions with unlimited opportunities to grind gears unless the magical RPM spot was attained.

Even my current non-syncro ride—a '57 Apache with three on the tree—keeps me in the game of manual transmissions from another era. I plan to sell her because even though she's a cool truck, I prefer riding my motorcyle, but I will miss Hagerty's Saturday morning reads.

[Snailish]

insure your bike with Hagerty and stay in the club? Or just stay in the club --pretty sure you can do that.

[camarogirl57]

Great article; that was truly a beautiful White design although designed not by them.
Did I read that correctly, that the author ( of a Hagerty publication) never drove a MANUAL? I would think that this would be a pre-requisite to employment with Hagerty! but he really stepped up with the non-synchro!

[Brandan]

He was just new to double-clutching. I can vouch for him, he was a natural.

[Gary_Bechtold]

I love Yellowstone and the Grand Teton's. Such a beautiful area to be in. It's been quite awhile since I was last there. I need to go again.

[Anntom1950]

Cant believe they drove that to la at 38 mph have freind has one they were on a trip and lost the brakes had a cliff on one side trees on the other they broke the e brake handle trying to slow it down needed up in the trees four people injured Dont use the stock brake system!!!!!

[Snailish]

Pretty sure it is Glacier National Park that has similar vintage buses... but theirs have been resto-modded by Ford.

[bruold1]

Love the door for each set of seats you surely don't see that anymore, back then everything was easier to load, nice article.