End of an era: Myanmar's 'big belly' Chevy buses from WWII face scrap

[Alex van de Wetering]

Thanks for posting this Phil. At first I thought these buses were only built with a CMP as inspiration, as we have seen with trucks in a different country (?), but to my surprise they were actually built on a CMP base, and at least front clip, fenders, grille and bumper were retained without modification.
Sad to see them go......you wonder if they had any spares to keep these truck running for all these years or if they just replaced arts with parts from a later truck or vehicle(?)

although the segue in the middle to an almost completely unrelated story was weird

Now that was strange indeed.....almost if the editor mixed up two stories!

Alex

[Neil Ashley]

Its the fate of the 40 Humber Armoured Cars and Bren Gun Carriers etc etc we want to know about.

Presumably already scrapped.

[welbike]

Hi there,

Same happened in the US, the late 30's White busses had been running forever in the Glacier National Park, and were just falling apart! but Ford came to the rescue, and so the bus bodies were put on a modern LPG running Ford chassis and engine!

Shame the White/Volvo Co. didn't get involved!! (edit, Volvo is owned by Ford now, so they did!)

See also here: http://http://www.seriouswheels.com/cars/top-1930s-White-Glacier-National-Park-Red-Bus.htm

And a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYuszWB8l8w

Cheers,

Lex