cattle truck; garbage truck; painted bus
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 11 Feb 1999
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1366
The painted bus sounds like Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters (see The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test), or some other '60s bus (I remeber seeing those painted buses and VW minibuses). It was common enough to become a cliche.
If anyone's read that book, or one of the other late Beat or
early Hippie books, there may be such a sequence of vehicles.
-John Bishop
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