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Old 09-29-2011, 02:01 PM   #1
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How about a 10 dr Burb

Found this on Craigs List would be a wild project

http://memphis.craigslist.org/cto/2556948784.html
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Old 09-29-2011, 03:07 PM   #2
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Re: How about a 10 dr Burb

thats an international
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Old 09-29-2011, 03:50 PM   #3
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Re: How about a 10 dr Burb

OOps I guess it is, I'm sure some one could hack it in to a Suburbam
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Old 09-29-2011, 04:42 PM   #4
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Re: How about a 10 dr Burb

That has to be the same extended cab that was in TX at the Decatur swap meet two weeks ago. That thing is ruuuuuuuuufff.
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Old 09-30-2011, 09:01 PM   #5
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still an interesting old rig. restore it and farm it out to high school kids going out to prom. more interesting than a Hummer H2 conversion!

the international competed with the burb back in those days. the burb was a ruggeder, more powerful truck. but the international had some advantages like 4 doors and folding seats. i saw a nice one at the Barrington (NH) truck show last year. somewhat smaller and easier to get into but still has great ground clearance.
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Old 09-30-2011, 11:50 PM   #6
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Re: How about a 10 dr Burb

Anyone have more info on the ol' 10 door? There used to be on next too the scale at a local scrap yard for years. Long gone now but were they like a touring truck made from international, or were they made through a custom shop?
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Old 10-01-2011, 09:14 PM   #7
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Re: How about a 10 dr Burb

I don't know whether they were factory or aftermarket but Checker,Pontiac,GM,International and probably others have been around at some point.Most I have seen were at one time "Airport Limo's" used as people movers at airports.
I saw 4 4 door Suburbans at a local wrecking yard a few months ago.I would like to have one for crusin' a group of us on Power tour or the like.
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Old 10-04-2011, 10:37 PM   #8
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http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/a/armb...armbruster.htm

Armbruster & Company was formed in 1887 by Tom Armbruster, Charles Kaiser and Walter Walkford to build and repair horse-drawn vehicles in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Fort Smith is located along the Arkansas-Oklahoma border, and at the time was a busy supply depot catering to settlers moving west into Indian Territory. Armbruster built "holdup proof” stage coaches that featured secret compartments for valuables that were built into the coaches floors and interiors, compartments that would re-appear during prohibition.

Twenty-five years later Armbruster & Co. was in the midst of the automobile revolution and offered their coachbuilding talents to owner of the internal combustion engine. By 1920 the firm was a thriving auto body repair depot and enjoyed a great reputation in and around Fort Smith and Tulsa, Oklahoma which was located 120 miles to the Northwest.

Sometime between 1921 and 1923, Jordan Bus Lines, a Fort Smith bus company, commissioned Armbruster to build them an extended-wheelbase multi-door touring car-based coach that could be used for short inter-city runs as Jordan had found that using a half-empty full-sized 25-29 passenger coach on short runs was a money-losing operation.

(Armbruster's advertisement in the 1954 Silver Book stated "builders of automobile extensions for over 25 years". That dates their first "stretch" to at least before 1928. Local sources date their first stretched vehicle - the Jordan Bus Lines job - to 1923, and one states the bus was ordered in 1921 and completed in 1923.)

With their first "stretch" under their belt, Armbruster developed a small regional market for their extended-wheelbase multi-door auto-coaches and built around 20 per year through the start of WWII. Until the late 1940s, Armbruster had no real competition and was the only firm producing Chevrolet-based airport buses and multi-door limousines in any quantity. Built using both Chevrolet passenger cars and Suburbans, these 12-passenger people movers were used by hotels, taxis, airlines, corporations, and tour companies.

Armbruster also built on Buick, Cadillac, Checker and Chrysler chassis, but had an arrangement with Queen City Chevrolet, a large Cincinnati, Ohio dealer. The dealership supplied Chevrolet chassis to Armbruster, who, in turn, sold completed coaches through Queen City's distribution firm, which was called Stageway. Because of the reciprocal relationship, Stageway was able to sell Chevrolet-based airport limos cheaper than anyone else, although they were not Armbruster's only distributor.
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Old 10-06-2011, 07:47 AM   #9
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Re: How about a 10 dr Burb

The International counterpart to the Suburban was the Travelall. They were built very stoutly. If anything,they were built tougher than Suburbans. The used the leaf spring/solid beam front suspension when GM had gone to 4 corner coil springs. There were various coach companies to build such vehicles. Dodge built the Town Wagon into the '60s and Ford never really made a truck based wagon,although Marmon-Harrington custom built the "Ranger" in the late 40s-early 50s. There were plenty of stretched Suburbans running around at one time. Pretty much all built as airport limos.
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Old 08-08-2012, 12:51 PM   #10
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Re: How about a 10 dr Burb

I'd like to buy one of these Stageway suburbans. Anyone have any leads on one for sale?
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