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ach60 Samba Member
Joined: May 14, 2001 Posts: 4139 Location: Santa Maria
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busdaddy Samba Member
Joined: February 12, 2004 Posts: 51153 Location: Surrey B.C. Canada, but thinking of Ukraine
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 5:45 pm Post subject: Re: President’s Car or PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) Cars |
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Those are really cool, they look alot like the trolley buses that used to operate here in Vancouver.
_________________ Rust NEVER sleeps and stock never goes out of style.
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Mike Fisher Samba Member
Joined: January 30, 2006 Posts: 17970 Location: Eugene, OR
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2017 7:49 am Post subject: Re: President’s Car or PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) Cars |
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Saw Clint Eastwood riding in a PCC in Dirty Harry. _________________ https://imgur.com/user/FisherSquareback/posts
69 FI/AT square Daily Driver
66 sunroof,67,70,71,71,71AT,72,72AT,73 Parts
two 57 oval ragtops sold
'68 Karmann Ghia sold
Society is like stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you end up with a lot of scum on the top! - Russ_Wolfe/Edward Abbey |
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janerick3 Samba Member
Joined: June 04, 2006 Posts: 1879 Location: Colorado
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2017 8:16 am Post subject: Re: PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) Cars |
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There are a few of the SEPTA PCCs here in Colorado awaiting restoration. They look like crap, with clouded plexiglass windows and interior paint jobs with runs everywhere, by-products of a low-budget, 1980s fleet renovation. _________________ Thanks,
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coad Samba Scapegoat
Joined: September 12, 2002 Posts: 7552
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Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 5:07 am Post subject: Re: President’s Car or PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) Cars |
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PCC cars are great.
If you hunt for them there are some good videos from El Paso, TX showing how they're restoring their PCC cars.
What's nice about their fleet is that the cars they're restoring are original El Paso cars that they put into storage when they shut down their line back in 1974. Whoever was smart enough to hang on to them deserves a medal.
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79SuperVert Samba Member
Joined: May 31, 2002 Posts: 9758 Location: Elizabeth, NJ & La Isla Del Encanto
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Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 7:18 pm Post subject: Re: President’s Car or PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) Cars |
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The Newark, NJ City Subway used them up to a few years ago. Their acceleration was breathtaking.
_________________ Central Jersey VW Society
Wanted: Art Collins VW (Savannah, Georgia) items - license plate surrounds and other items. Also ivory "AM", "FM" and "SW" buttons for a US Blaupunkt Frankfurt. |
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hotsam Samba Member
Joined: December 02, 2015 Posts: 366 Location: Ashburn, VA
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 7:26 am Post subject: Re: President’s Car or PCC |
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Small world, I worked in Hornell in 2004 as a production planning consultant. WMATA 2k/3k rehab. It was Alstom Transportation at the time. _________________ 1968 Beetle |
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ROCKOROD71 Samba Member
Joined: January 18, 2012 Posts: 2770 Location: Boston, MA
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 11:15 am Post subject: Re: President’s Car or PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) Cars |
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I ride a PCC car every so often. Where I live in Boston still has ONE trolley line operating them. I wish I could say they do it for historical value, truth is our transit system here is terrible and I live in the poorest part of the city, so guess who gets the 80 year old trolley cars?
Weirdly enough it is the most reliable line, even in winters. _________________ 1971 STD BEETLE- DD-1st car, 1st love. keepin' it stock! 1600DP, Solex 34-3 Mexi Bosch SVDA Dist NOW w/POINTS
1977 WESTY "KrustyKamper" 2L FI
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30 years from now, the next guy may not want your girlfriend, but he may want your classic car, depending on how nice you were to it. |
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Careful guys, a petulant child can grow up to be president these days. |
**winter drivers: no survivors!**rust warrior**#keepbodyshopsbusy** |
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Patty B. Samba Member
Joined: July 14, 2005 Posts: 2181 Location: Brampton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 11:48 am Post subject: Re: President’s Car or PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) Cars |
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The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) also used PCCs .
Pic I found on line:
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coad Samba Scapegoat
Joined: September 12, 2002 Posts: 7552
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 2:49 pm Post subject: Re: President’s Car or PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) Cars |
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Patty B. wrote: |
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) also used PCCs .
Pic I found on line:
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Good article about how it's almost the end of the line for the Toronto PCC cars, and how they've wound up all over the world:
http://spacing.ca/toronto/2016/05/30/streetcar-named-retire/ |
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70 140 Samba Member
Joined: September 22, 2002 Posts: 8471 Location: Ontario Canada
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Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 7:33 pm Post subject: Re: President’s Car or PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) Cars |
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The 60-70s sales of the TTC streetcar fleet to other countries were mostly cars that still had service life. They sold the junk ones locally. Usually to farmers for storage or accommodation for temporary farm labour.
Here's one outside of Guelph Ontario
www.google.ca/maps/place/4170-4096+ON-6,+Puslinch,...&hl=en |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12860 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 6:18 pm Post subject: Re: President’s Car or PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) Cars |
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#1169 appears in Dirty Harry. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12860 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 6:21 pm Post subject: Re: President’s Car or PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) Cars |
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One also appears multiple times in "A Christmas Story". _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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coad Samba Scapegoat
Joined: September 12, 2002 Posts: 7552
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2018 4:50 am Post subject: Re: President’s Car or PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) Cars |
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A newly rebuilt San Francisco PCC hits truck. PCC wins, but will need major work.
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Around 8:30 p.m. on New Year’s Day, the newest PCC streetcar to reenter regular service following a complete rebuilding collided with a large box truck while returning to the carbarn after completing its day’s work on the F-line. The impact knocked the streetcar, No. 1063 (painted to honor Baltimore Transit), off the track and turned the truck on its side. No injuries had been reported by the time this post was made. The streetcar had no passengers aboard at the time of the collision. |
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