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Originally Posted by truckster
I had to laugh at this line from the article: "At the time, Chevy engineers through it safer if the rear-seat passengers were only allowed to exit on the curbside of the vehicle."
Sure, that's why there were no four-door Novas, or Chevelles, or Impalas. Or maybe they just didn't want to go to the expense of designing and manufacturing that fourth door.
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Some very small school districts did use Suburbans as ''short busses.''
I rode to school, grades 1 - 4, on a short bus Chevy Suburban or GMC Carryall, but they were the Late '50s, Early '60s types. Two doors only. The driver had a long lever to open the door, and a leather strap to pull it shut. Front passenger seat was deleted. Plywood benches were built around the sides, and a locker room bench was set in the middle. Seat belts were only used by jet test pilots in this period.
This was a private carrier that served parochial and private schools.
Fifth Grade, I changed schools, and had to walk to school. Or take the CTA bus if the weather was bad. Of course [urban Chicago] if the weather was really bad and the busses didn't run, I had to press on regardless thru the driving snow, Southbound, like Capt Scott at the Antarctic.
Back on topic, I saw that article on the $1.1 Mil ICON Suburban in my Hagerty magazine. I was sorry they butchered a perfectly good K/10 body and chassis to start with. Why not resurrect a junkyard hulk?