RIGS Ep. 2 - James Conrad converted a BUS

Video Transcript

hey everyone I'm James Conrad I'm here with my girlfriend Jordan Kim this is our fourth year together on the road we've we spent the last three seasons touring out of a Ford Transit van I did that conversion myself and it was a great home for us on the road we had a little running joke that people would be like oh you guys make it work and um whatever that means we kind of loved it but after a while you know three years full time with two people in a van was feeling a bit small so we decided we wanted something bigger and we felt like a schooly type conversion was going to be our best bet and last year I was kind of scouring the internet trying to find the right bus trying to find the right rig and we ended up coming across this F650 shuttle bus this thing's about 36 feet bumper to bumper so it's a pretty large vehicle but that gave us a huge cabin we got 25 feet by eight feet of space inside to work with and yeah I'm stoked to show you guys my rig today one of the reasons we ended up picking this specific bus was it's got a full cab so we got a we got like a co-pilot seat up front a lot of the shuttle buses that we were looking into um the stairway and like the door that actually kind of opens is right there where the passenger seat would normally be and with how much how many long drives we end up taking we were really looking for something with this full-size cab and then like lower parts the cops doesn't even feel like it's here anymore which is awesome um we can get in and out this side door and we got like a little lock we can lock here or unlock to open so super handy there we actually hired a crew to do the conversion for us we pretty much had had three months to try to get it bought and built we found a crude I'm in Austin Texas called chewy design Co ended up just working out perfect with the timing wise and we're super stoked on the work that they were able to knock out for us so make sure you check them out they...