Need to move a lot of people around? There's any
number of buses available on the market – but few of them offer the kind of
style that this one does. It's a 1937 White 706, coachbuilt by Bender for use
as a tour bus at Yellowstone National Park. And it's coming up for auction next
month in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
The bus not only features five doors (plus the
tailgate) but a removable canvas roof that offered visitors to Yellowstone what
were sure to have been fantastic views of the protected wilderness. 98 of them
were made between 1936 and 1938, but we doubt many of them are still in working
condition.
This one is not only operational, but has been
mechanically modernized to make it more usable. It packs a 300-cubic-inch Ford
straight six, an automatic transmission, power steering and brakes, electric
fuel pump, and 12-volt electrical system – all modern equipment that wasn't
available back prior to World War II.
RM Sotheby's had Greg Keysar capture the classic bus
in the gallery below, and expects it will fetch between US$ 30,000 and US$ 40,000
when the gavel drops on October 5.
