Was it identified as a flooded vehicle? I think if a vehicle is flooded like that it doesn't have much salvage value. Hmmm...it seems to me there was some fraud after Hurricane Andrew or maybe it was the flood of '95? when people and businesses were trying to launder flooded vehicles.
If you want to the auction, you would have seen that it was, in fact, clearly identified as one of "those busses" you see in the picture and as non-operational.
They used the infamous picture, marking which one it was.
There were actually people who did want it. They got 23 bids in the second auction, I think more in the first one before it was pulled.
Now that I search my memory, I seem to remember the busses were worth more as salvage, so they were eventually sold in bulk.
Unfortunately for them, a schoolbus is a rather awkward collectable ... it's just too big!
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