Does anyone know how I could find a broken-down looking bus on short notice?

September 9, 2008 1:58 PM

I need a broken down looking bus in Raleigh NC. How can I find one of those?

To make a long story short, I'm looking to find a dilapidated old bus to serve as a background for a media event I'm putting together.

How does one find such a thing? A junkyard? A school?

As an aside, I often find myself with location specific local questions like this that I feel silly asking metafilter about. Is there some way to localize ask metafilter? Maybe create a listserve? Anyone want to help me put together a NC one?

posted by willie11 to Shopping (3 answers total)

I'd try Craigslist, eBay, and the local school bus company (or school district, if they own their own buses). Hemmings Motor News might be worth a shot, too.
posted by zippy at 2:07 PM on September 9, 2008

Followup - here's what I found on a Craigslst Raleigh search for bus:

- 1970 Silver Eagle Bus (perhaps not broken down enough)
- 15 passenger bus
posted by zippy at 2:10 PM on September 9, 2008

Call local transit departments and find out where their boneyards are, and whether or not they would allow you to tow a hulk out of the yard for a day, then bring it back.

Of course regular junkyards will also have them, but you'd pretty much have to buy, not borrow it. Then you'd be stuck with a huge broken bus.
posted by M.C. Lo-Carb! at 2:47 PM on September 9, 2008 [1 favorite]