How we replaced a rusty beam in the bus
Every vehicle needs a good backbone and in this case, our rig has two: One for the truck itself, the factory frame, and two, the coach frame that supports
Rusty Beam Tetris: Like Operation, but with a Skoolie
Under bus rust busting begins. Steph jumps in with the wire wheel. I’m not particularly fond of – or good at – metal fabbing things. I’m a
Rust, crust, and dust: Excavating Sunny’s undercarriage
Fighting claustrophobia in a HAZ-MAT suit whilst wielding a grinder. One of my favorite books/movies of all time is Stephen King’s Christine, about the ’58 Plymouth Fury
From ancestry to skoolie, a brief history
Buses Aplenty – The bus in the foreground is a 1958 International 68-passenger and the bus in the background is the 30-passenger 1950 International. If you look really
Doing brakes on a bus is just like doing brakes on any other vehicle, just way harder
Doing brakes on a bus is just like doing brakes on any other vehicle, just way harder and much more time consuming. After our first adventure home, we wanted
We found a great new watering hole
Back in the heady days of sprint-distance triathlon training (hopefully we’ll have more heady days), sometimes it got a little difficult to keep up with the training and keep
Top 6 reasons we bought a skoolie
I’ve got a damn bus to build, so let’s not muck about and get right to it… No. 6 – PRICE. Every traditional camper van was approximately $9 million
DISCLAIMER: I only think I know what I’m talking about
I got my license in 1989 at 16.5 years old, the youngest possible in the great state of Massachusetts. I bought my first car based on a Creature Double
Brakes only slow you down
Rusty is putting it mildly. So when we test drove Sunny for the first time, she developed a little smoking habit. As we alighted on the test
Show me some bus…
The day after we (barely) made it home after buying Little Miss Skoolie, alias Sunny the Bus. She’s a small bus. A mini. A shortie. Alias: Sunny