Classic (transit bus)

The Classic is a single-deck transit bus that General Motors Diesel developed from its earlier New Look design, keeping the New Look body from the belt rail up but adding a new front end with a wider front door. It was first meant only for the Canadian market, as an alternative to the unpopular Rapid Transit Series, yet sold well in both Canada and the United States, mostly as a 40-foot, 102-inch-wide coach, with 16 articulated 60-foot examples built. General Motors sold its transit bus division to Motor Coach Industries in 1987, and MCI built the Classic as the TC40-102A and TC40-102N and the articulated TA60-102N until the division passed to Nova Bus in 1993. Nova Bus kept building it until 1997, when agencies had turned to its low-floor LFS, and many Classics were later retired, resold or preserved.