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GM Intercity Coaches 1944-1980 Photo Archive

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I am a avid American bus fan and have essentially all the major bus books published concerning American buses in the last 30 years or so. This is the only book dedicated to those funny looking intercity buses w/ the hump in the roof of the 1970s/80s affectionately called the "Buffalo Buses" by their bus drivers and fans. This book gives excellent photos of all the major companies and the minor companies that used the bus. By all accounts, it was a good bus. But, the fact that Greyhound started making their own buses (i.e. MCI, which bought by Greyhound) doomed GMC's Intercity Coach days and also this line of Buffalo buses. Nevertheless, it was well liked by drivers and mechanics alike. Brian Grams and Andrew Gold did all bus fans and industry people a great service by chronicling this bus in the Iconografix photo archives series. You will get many hours of enjoyment reading this book. I have a whole library of bus books and I periodically read through them, and I find surprises and new info no matter how many times I read them. So, I highly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the GM Buffalo buses. They certainly have more character than many of the bland, boxy coaches out in the market today in 2008.

These bus books are ideal.126 pages,1 bus photo per page with captions.Little light on for text but interesting enough for most bus enthusiasts.

This book is not only well illustrated, but well researched by a professional in the intercity bus industry. It is an excellent treatise on how the General Motors line of highway coaches evolved from the GM take over of Yellow Coach in the 1930s to the final parlor coach to leave the factory in Pontiac,Michigan, taking General Motors out of the highway bus business. These buses, in my opinion, were far superior to some of the junk plying the highways today, and I don't mean MCI,Prevost or SETRA, I mean the likes of DINA.