Many know my more recent genre Buses and Girls photography as those earlier buses I really like have all gone so now I enjoy my bus hobby more for the photography. As well as being an artist I owned a small transport business before I retired but today I have a little job too driving a minibus dong a school run to Wolverhampton in the afternoon and occasionally other jobs. It gets me out and about and satisfies my childhood ambition to drive a bus.
Sunday 6 August 2017
70's Neoplan: All Glass and Polished Chrome
These Neoplans from the Seventies were very much influenced by glitzy America with all that polished chrome and glass. In a way I quite like this one as both the more subtle maroon relief and wet weather at Berlin Zoo manage to soften the blow!
I've never been a great fan of American-style excessive brightwork (bling!), and I think that body would have worked much better with the side stainless steel flat rather than ridged.
But, as you say, even then the brightwork needs a sensitive livery to tone it down and I can imagine that some of them must have looked absolutely awful!
I've never been a great fan of American-style excessive brightwork (bling!), and I think that body would have worked much better with the side stainless steel flat rather than ridged.
ReplyDeleteBut, as you say, even then the brightwork needs a sensitive livery to tone it down and I can imagine that some of them must have looked absolutely awful!
Horrendous lol!
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