[Jon A.]

The replacements probably were GM buses. The "New Look" came out for 1959 and was very widely used. We had those too, the last ones going down with the 1983 Classics. The last of those were 1981-82 T6H-5307N models, purchased used from out west in 2003. Our fleet now is mostly New Flyer D40LFs and Nova LFS articulated buses, nothing to sneeze at. I heard a New Flyer go by a few minutes ago. Quite far from the roar of an '83 Classic going by here on a peak hour route, which is mostly what they did during their last few years. Another kind of bus we had was the 1992-93 MCI/NovaBus TA60-102N articulated buses. I'm only mentioning these because we had 14 of only 16 ever made, and none of ours were saved. They were assigned fleet numbers 701-714. Many, if not all of the Classics I mentioned before used Allison V731 transmissions that varied in their number of forward gears. The Classic artics used the Allison VR731, with retarder. The last one on the road was 706, which made its last run on January 18th.