Never Tardy No More

The yellow school bus is an American icon. The bus served both the cities, suburbs, and rural communities from Alaska to Florida. Type C was most popular with school boards. Seating for 90 little bodies. No frills. Dependability. My perfect attendance awards of 1962 through 1965 were as much a testament to the Bluebird bus as much as my good health.

"You're not sick unless you're bleeding." My mother liked to say whenever her children ran a temperature. There were six of us. She liked us out of the house.

Ken Kesey,author of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, painted a school bus in psychedelic color swirls for a trans-America voyage famousized by Tom Wolfe's THE ELECTRIC KOOLAID ACID TEST. Thousands of noble school bus suffered the same fate. I was picked up by several in the early 70s. Hippie chicks, lice-ridden mattress, weed, and a slow ride. The 1973 Gas Crisis harpooned these LSD land cruisers into extinction, however the yellow school bus survived in the real world.

They still transport millions of school children to their destination.

A shitty school where they'll get bullied by fellow students and berated by ignorant teachers.

Evel Knievel once almost cleared 14 school buses.

Crash 101 was his first class that day.

Now a car fanatic has outfitted a school bus with a Phantom jet engine.

The top speed.

Over 300.

Really good on those cornfield straightaways.

For a view of a fast school bus please go to this URL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU8zbLdUqAQ