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COVERSTORY HINO-CUSTOM ADVENTURER SOMETHING SPECIAL With its delicious retro look underwritten by modern bus performance and appeal, this very first Hino RN8J chassis on a Custom Adventurer-body ‘school bus’ is something the kids will love and hate to have to leave after each journey. WORDS FABIAN COTTER IMAGES SARA CLARK 42 <strong>ABC</strong> November 2020 busnews.com.au
Time ‘waits for no man’, as the saying goes – and nor should it. Yet its passing brings equal amounts of pleasure or pain when we reminisce the emotional sights and sounds of our youthful yesteryears as we spearhead into each new day. Or perhaps some of us sleep-deprived writers should just merely start reading more Hemingway… That aside, there will be some things of the past that seem to transcend time and consistently find a beautifully congruous place in the modern day. And when it comes to buses, the strikingly retro-cool colour scheme of Victoria’s Turnbull’s Bus Service – in use since the company’s origins some 70 years ago – still looks stunning and ‘factory fresh’ now. Well … technically it really is factory fresh because the delectable tan, cream and ruddy-brownish maroon PPG paint hues actually are new, gracing this recently released Hino-Custom Adventurer school/ charter head-turner. “We have always used that colour scheme; it actually came from an early Toyota Deluxe Coaster colour option,” explained David Turnbull, dealer-principal of Turnbull Toyota in Yarrum and Sale. “My 86-year-old father, Ian Turnbull (the mastermind behind the styling who started out as an apprentice mechanic), originally decided [on] that. “We have always had Hino bus Hino has a comprehensive suite of business solutions for its customers. chassis and we currently run five school buses and all [with] Custom coach bodies. “We use Denso air conditioning. We like Denso as it’s the same that’s in Toyota and we have had a Toyota dealership for 56 years in Yarram and Sale,” he said. BORDER CROSSING Right about now you can appreciate where this is going. Once recent pictures of the new bus – while it was being refuelled out in public by stalwart Hino sales manager Kevin Fielding – surfaced on a bus-related website and went Above: Ian and David Turnbull, representing generations ‘two’ and ‘three’ out of ‘four’ to date. Left: This recently released Hino-Custom Adventurer really is a good-looking head-turner. busnews.com.au November 2020 <strong>ABC</strong> 43
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