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Arthur needs a new home
Jun. 15th, 2022 09:59 amMy ex-SFMTA/Muni articulated bus is losing its pandemic home. It's been playing the role of a cabin on a friend's land north of Chico for a couple of years now. I'll retrieve it next month to use as an RV for a camping event. That trip will be roughly Chico to Oakland to Ukiah to Oakland. After that, I see four possibilities, presented in order of preference:
1) Drive the bus to MA. I would do this if 4-8 other people wanted to join me for the road trip and help pay for fuel. The trip could be a week to a month, probably starting late July but possibly later if I can find safe temporary parking in the bay area.
2) Find a new home for the bus in CA. It's 60ft long and needs to be away from vandalism risk. I use it approximately once per year, and the rest of the time it can be a not-so-tiny home, or just storage, wherever it's parked.
3) Sell the bus in CA. It runs and drives well enough, but has some moderate cosmetic and mechanical issues that an attentive owner would probably want to address. Plenty more details are available.
4) Scrap the bus in CA.
4a) I could probably get a few grand from a scrapper directly.
4b) It's worth a lot more if I can hire someone with a truck and tools to spend a month tearing it apart and selling the parts, possibly longer to sit on the best parts. Just the wheels would probably beat the (4a) value.
If you're interested in helping make any of these options happen, get in touch.
Photo from when the bus was pretending to be a cabin for hikers and campers on a different friend's land near Joshua Tree.
