I only had one bus with that blessed 429. It was a stump pulling son of a gun, but holy cow that thing was a pain. It never started good and the manifolds ran so hot that you could plan on new ones every few years and a head or two pulled to drill out the twisted off studs. I can't recall what those manifold cost but I remember nearly crying every time one would crack. That thing was a deal. It did run pretty good once I stripped away all of the emissions stuff, but I wasn't too impressed otherwise. It was the only 71 passenger bus I ever had that in the bitter winter you only had to run one heater fan of the rear pair (for the whole bus) and everyone was still boiling out. I could load up every seat and the torque would still sit you back in the chair, too. The one thing Ford new how to do right (in my opinion) was their medium duty line from the early 60's to the mid 90's. I never had a bus newer than 1995 so I'm not sure about the last "overhaul" and what came of those. Those Fords took me many miles.
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