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Last Flx Demo New Look Front 2
Beautiful survival story about this bus. This is the final New Look Demo that was made by the then Grumman Flxible Corporation. This bus never served any transit operation thus the original miles on this bus is under 180,000 miles. This was a special demo ordered by the New York City Transit Authority in the late seventies. It was originally a 30 ft bus! The transit authority was going to explore the use of shorties on their lightly travelled lines bus the order was cancelled soon after the unit's completion as the city decided no to short buses. If you look closely at the roof line you can see the original NYCTA paint job coming through.
So with the city rejecting the bus it became a factory mule first being resized to a 35ftr, then a 40ftr. The bus has inside one of every different transit style seat that was available at the time as test beds to see which seat was best to offer. It had every transmission in it at the time as well as many different motors. It now has a fairly new 8V71 TURBO!!!, yes a rare 8V71 Turbo connected to a then new technology air throttle. No saying how many innovations in the Grumman Flxible organization passed thru this unit since, right after the Grumman 870 went into full production. And today with so many New Look GM Fishbowl still running in regular service or preserved, the Flxible New Look is indeed a rare beast. Really non- existent!!
Last Flx Demo New Look Front 2
Beautiful survival story about this bus. This is the final New Look Demo that was made by the then Grumman Flxible Corporation. This bus never served any transit operation thus the original miles on this bus is under 180,000 miles. This was a special demo ordered by the New York City Transit Authority in the late seventies. It was originally a 30 ft bus! The transit authority was going to explore the use of shorties on their lightly travelled lines bus the order was cancelled soon after the unit's completion as the city decided no to short buses. If you look closely at the roof line you can see the original NYCTA paint job coming through.
So with the city rejecting the bus it became a factory mule first being resized to a 35ftr, then a 40ftr. The bus has inside one of every different transit style seat that was available at the time as test beds to see which seat was best to offer. It had every transmission in it at the time as well as many different motors. It now has a fairly new 8V71 TURBO!!!, yes a rare 8V71 Turbo connected to a then new technology air throttle. No saying how many innovations in the Grumman Flxible organization passed thru this unit since, right after the Grumman 870 went into full production. And today with so many New Look GM Fishbowl still running in regular service or preserved, the Flxible New Look is indeed a rare beast. Really non- existent!!