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  Sacramento, Ca. Railroad Museum.
  Kent, Wa. Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum

To help get over the electrical wiring learning hump as well as for future stuff, you could do what I am going to do. I plan on insulating, and then making two (or 4, havent got there yet) hinged boxes running the length of the coach. One will be where the top of the walls meet the ceiling and the other where the floor meets the wall. In the lower one I will run plumbing and in the top one I will run wiring. I havent figured out yet about running wires and plumbing vertically yet and for that part I may have to bury it in the wall.

General Patton Museum on I 10 at Charaico Summit, which is just west of Indio California. In the early 70 we went on a jeep trip out through where General Pattaon trained his men.  It was still pretty much intact then, but doubt it now. The museum has a lot of WW II tanks and outher equipment have not been inside the building.
ED

The pocket book will dictate what you do.  Tom has it right if you can afford it. I added 1/2 pink board on top of the inch and a half spray foam.

Ponderosa Ranch in Incline Village is closed.

There are literally hundreds of military, aircraft, railroad, mining museums.  Also there are great websites that will tell you where they are.

Couple of my favorites:
George A. Patton museum 30 miles east of Indio, Ca right off Interstate 10.
March AFB in Riverside, Ca
Tankland- 1918 Rosemead Bl, South El Monte, Ca.  Tanks and land based vehicles.  Including a running air raid siren powered by a Chrysler Hemi!
Planes of Fame, Chino, Ca
Pima Air Museum, south of Tucson, Az.

Good Luck, TomC

The Illinois Railroad Museum in Union Il. Lots to see there and.....there are a few buses there.
There is a rail museum in Green Bay, WI. that has quite a bit to see.

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Wow, excellent responses and ideas! I had forgotten about the Ohio museum stuff, I had seen it online or something before.


Okay, let's expand if that's alright. I thought of two other types.
How about railroad museums and exhibits and western theme (wild west history, ghost towns, etc..)

I know there is Tombstone, Az, there used to be Ponderosa Ranch at Incline village which though a pseudo tv set was still cool I thought. I've heard that there is a famous western movie set in Kanab, Utah but then I was told it was lame and really nothing to see or do. Anything in Texas? Colorado? Wyoming?

Isn't there a cool rail museum in PA? Seems like there are some railroads in southern Colorado though I've not actually visited, just been told of them. They were on my list for this year before harder times hit.

I stripped my interior down to the metal (incredibly dirty!). Inspected the metal and found a crack over each of the two doors-mainly from years of opening and closing the doors thousands of times (transit bus).  I then wire brushed the entire bus, Rustoleum primed it, then installed 1x2 fir strips going fore and aft at 16" center on the roof bows and walls.  Framed out in wood the two Fantastic fans, three roof top A/C's and wired what would be buried in the ceiling including overhead lighting.  Then had spray foam installed even with the 1x2 fir strips that gave me 2.25" of foam insulation on both the ceiling and walls.  Also had custom RV windows made from Penn Glass.  

With all windows and roof vents closed, the interior is so tight that anyone coming in and closing the door will make my ears pop.  To combat that, I leave the bathroom Fantastic vent cracked open just enough to allow the motor to come on if we need it-I used a small piece of wood taped in place to prevent the knob from turning.  Never seem to get rain in.

I can't emphasize this enough-the key to really good heating and air conditioning is to have excellent insulation.  I can keep my bus warm with one 35,000btu propane furnace (coldest I've been in is 25 degrees), and easily keep the bus cool running down the road with just two of the three roof top A/C's running (hottest I've been in is 108 degrees).  I highly recommend you remove that fiberglass insulation and do it right with spray insulation over 1x2 fir strips. Good Luck, TomC

This was a while back I still need to do the roof. I will be doing it during Sept. I Have been using the bus this year but haven't finished the roof insulation as I wanted to get the lighting down pat before I closed it in.

John

Hey Ed,
Any chance you can bring some parts off that marine 8V92 you were talking about?
I could use a pair of heads, blower & turbo.