For most young people, the school bus is just a convenient way of getting to lessons on time. For some, it can be the scene of the occasional back-seat fracas.
But for two Cambridgeshire lads, it meant much more. "Stephen Longmire, 19, and Nathan Merryweather, 17, were distraught to learn the bus they used to catch to Stanground College could be crushed," reported the Wisbech Standard. So they joined forces with a third bus preservationist to raise the £1,350 needed to buy the double-decker and restore it to its former glory.
"When we knew it was going to be scrapped, we wanted to save it," explained Stephen, who used the bus for two years. "We had a look at it, liked it and it started up first time. Some of our friends call us bus geeks, but we don't care." Nathan added: "I've driven the bus on private land and in the depot, and it does feel strange. I'm now in the cab of the bus I used to get kicked off the back seat of when I was at school. It's an everlasting memory of my childhood." Who says today's youth have no drive?
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