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| Bus of the Day: August 11, 2015; Playart '78 Scania CR112 | |
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| Dean-o-mite | Aug 11 2015, 03:49 AM Post #1 |
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![]() For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: Scania CR112 ![]() ![]() I lost 107 Playart cars from my collection, including many of my favorites, to the heat damage sustained during flood restoration reconstruction at my house that I've spoken of in bits and pieces around here at the Garage. I'm still photographing the destruction to share, and ask for help in finding replacements for some of the nearly 900 total cars that were damaged / melted. This Playart Scania Bus was stored separately, and escaped damage. I enjoy the 6 opening doors, and the "Hertz Courtesy Bus" livery. The Scania CR112 does not have an entry in the English Wikipedia site, but there was an entry on the Swedish Wikipedia site, which has been linked above, but unless you can read Swedish, you will need a translation website handy. I used Google to translate the information included with today's feature. ![]()
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| Ford1965 | Aug 11 2015, 07:57 AM Post #2 |
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Love the other Greenlight models in the background!
Edited by Ford1965, Aug 11 2015, 07:58 AM.
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| Ethanator | Aug 11 2015, 08:16 AM Post #3 |
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Can you make a want list of cars you are looking for and pin them in the Car lot bay? Nice bus BTW |
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| Harvestman | Aug 11 2015, 11:12 AM Post #4 |
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Would love to get a copy of this one. |
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| microbuss | Aug 11 2015, 01:43 PM Post #5 |
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uh b4 I go crazy ![]() What is the scale of this bus? |
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| Dean-o-mite | Aug 11 2015, 02:51 PM Post #6 |
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Online references state it is 1/87. The cars I used to represent "Hertz rental cars" in a couple of the pics, are Greenlight 1/64, which I also used as a size reference. |
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| pjedsel | Aug 11 2015, 03:17 PM Post #7 |
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Nice looking bus from Playart - I agree the opening doors are fascinating! I can't say I have ever seen this one
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| Hobie-wan | Aug 11 2015, 05:22 PM Post #8 |
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That's cool. I didn't know Playart made any bigger busses like that. I thought they just did the dinky ones and double deckers. |
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| corvairjim | Aug 11 2015, 11:28 PM Post #9 |
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Nice bus, and a nice job posing it with the el Cheapo rent-a-cars. You probably could also have found a couple of Greenlight Dodge Darts and Chevy Cruzes to flesh out the display, maybe even one of their Chrysler 300's to represent the high end. My Hertz bus (a Dinky) is yellow over white and represents a much smaller bus, not one of these full-length city service=size behemoths. (Photo available upon request)
Edited by corvairjim, Aug 11 2015, 11:31 PM.
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| ivantt | Aug 12 2015, 10:00 PM Post #10 |
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
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I really like this bus a lot!! Nice idea displaying it with a rental car lineup!! Hmmmm..... I wonder if Greenlight would consider doing a bus in 1/64. They've done the tow trucks, would a bus sell enough to get back their investment?? |
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| Harvestman | Feb 23 2016, 12:08 AM Post #11 |
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A later version of this design was sold in the US as the Saab-Scania N112. It operated in Durham, NH; Stamford, CT; Coralville, IA; Iowa City, IA; Madison, WI; Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN; Honolulu, HI; and Brockton, MA. Here is a photo of the CT Transit scheme courtes of Kevin Nicol and CPTDB.ca. ![]() http://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Saab-Scania_N112 |
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