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Fantastic Video on all things Eagle

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Fantastic Video on all things Eagle

Post by beltguy »

A while back Eric posted a link to a YouTube video on Facebook that is a must see for anyone interested in Eagle buses.

It is a video that was filmed this year and is an interview of the "who's who" of people associated with Eagle buses over the years. Lots of fun stories and quite a bit of history.

The video is rather long, but well worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaK0_dcHq0g

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Re: Fantastic Video on all things Eagle

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Jim, thanks worth the watch, would have been interesting if my (our) old friend Norris could have set in.
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Re: Fantastic Video on all things Eagle

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Has anybody heard from Norris? Is he still alive and well? He certainly has helped many of us over the years.
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I wish I could have been there when it happened. The only one of those folks in the video that I knew in the past bas Dave Millhouser. but I could have added a few interesting
bits and pieces such as how I went to Viet Nam on an Eagle bus, actually several between Miami and Fort Lewis, WA. I could have also spoken about John Hecket of
Panhandle Trailways in Amarillo, TX, a dear friend and maybe a few other subjects and people as well. I was also at Eagle Day in 1988 and I had the possibility of blowing the roof off the factory but I thought it best to keep silent. It had to do with the the fact that I had the idea that 2 stroke GM diesels would not be for much longer because of ever-
tighter emissions requirements. Time permitting, I'd have also spoke about the Flxible Vista-Liner 100 or VL-100 and how it influenced Eagle design.
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Re: Fantastic Video on all things Eagle

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Small world, I too rode in an Eagle (Model 01) for the first time when I left the Army Induction Center in 1965 to go to basic training at Fort Dix, NJ. I thought the whitewalls were silly, but I appreciated the lack of leaning in the corners. :)
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