Another thing from the past... While a kid growing in Brasil, we use to travel mostly by bus. Well planes were expensive and the railways were being phased out - old "Pra frente Brasil" politics. Anyway, I had my first Airplane trip on a Cruzeiro do Sul Caravelle (nice plane - PP-PDX latter crashed), from Rio to Belo Horizonte and got bac by train - a real sweet trip !!! But like I've said, most of the time we drove in dad's VW bug, or we took the bus. The best company to travel, nice GM buses and latter on Scania, was Viacao Cometa. We took the great PD 4104 Morubixaba (middle photo), nice 2 stroker GM bus, A/C, comfortable seats and a sound from heaven. Latter on Cometa used Scania buses with Ciferal bodies called the Papo Amarelo, Jumbo and Turbo Jumbo (loved to ride on the Turbo Jumbo). But the best of thoses came later when the Dinossauro series came (far right photo- what a beauty). What a great bus. Fast, turbo, air suspension, nice looking. All the other series were made by Cometa's CMA and you have the Flecha Azul (blue Arrow) series ... Well I've just got vent that the Dinossauros are going out of the lines and despite the fact they're still great buses, Cometa new owners are moving to boring Mercedes bus with Marcopolo bodies. Well there is a project for the Dinossauro V series (far letf photo) and I cannot agree more that represents the soul of the Cometa heritage. Hope I'll see one of those on the road
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