93 PT-40 for sale in Nashville

[Pete Masterson]

Hey, no problem. I just had to laugh. It's not really ugly (to me), but pale green just doesn't do much for me. Probably has something to do with the local transit district that was created out of the bones of the Key System bus lines. The Key system busses were mostly a dark yellow with white roof and dark green trim.

The newly formed transit district (about 1960) selected designer colors of teal and salmon (light green and dark pink) as the primary colors for their fleet. I honestly thought they were one of the ugliest bus color designs I've ever seen. (But the colors were "in" that year.) Indeed, that color scheme hung around for nearly 30 years...

I'm sure, had we found a teal and fushia bus during my search that was otherwise appropriate, we'd probably have taken it. -- The only hard and fast design choice was "no pink." (And there was at least one coach that otherwise met my search criteria that was rejected on that basis, as I recall, the exterior was quite similar to the green one we're discussing, but it had a ton of pink in the interior.)

Oddly, one of the WBWLs whose appearance I find most appealing has been on sale on Vintage Birds (a '93 located in Palm Springs, third listing from the bottom) that's essentially white with a blue-green (dark teal) bottom 18" with an almost purple trim color stripe and swoosh design. I would have seriously considered that coach had it not been overpriced by $40,000 or so at the time.

Indeed, I wasn't particularly thrilled with the brown colors on my coach when seen in the photos. But, in person, it's much more attractive.

I guess, what I'm trying to say is, colors are very subjective. And, since I work as a graphic designer, I'm quite used to having clients select colors that are far from my favorites -- and I don't let it bother me. 

Pete Masterson

'95 Blue Bird Wanderlodge WBDA 42

El Sobrante CA

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On Apr 18, 2008, at 6:08 PM, jim riordan wrote:

Pete,

 

I won't take it persoanlly..88WBWL white teal and fushia think it looks pretty good!