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Portland, OR · est. 2018

Retired city buses become rolling homes

A retired transit bus converted into a home, cut away to show the interior

A bus that hauled the #14 line for twenty years. Now it hauls a kitchen, a bed, and you — titled as a legal motorhome, built in a Portland shop you can walk through on a Saturday.

Why a bus

Forty feet of steel that already survived a million stops.

Vans run out of room and run out of road before the rust even starts. A retired transit bus is the opposite. The chassis is rated for a million miles, the floor is already flat steel, and the frame was engineered to carry sixty people standing up.

We buy them at surplus auction for less than a used pickup, gut them down to the ribs, and build a home that drives. We just move in.

1M+
mile-rated chassis
35–40 ft
of flat steel floor
DMV
titled motorhome
SAT
shop doors open
Conversion Packages

Three build levels. You pick where the bus stops being a bus.

Honest price ranges, not counting the bus itself. We'll tell you which level fits before you spend a dime.

Finished Builds

Three routes retired. Three people who live in them now.

The Cascadia — converted 2006 Gillig Phantom, ex-Route 4 Fessenden Inside The Cascadia — Reclaimed-fir galley, a wet bath behind the old farebox wall, and the destination sign rewired to glow above the bed. Peek inside The Cascadia inside

The Cascadia

Full Home
ex-Route 4 Fessenden

Reclaimed-fir galley, a wet bath behind the old farebox wall, and the destination sign rewired to glow above the bed.

2006 Gillig Phantom 40 ft · sleeps 2 Built $142,000
Linework — converted 2009 New Flyer, ex-Route 72 Killingsworth Inside Linework — Bunk-over-cab for the kids, a fold-flat dinette, and off-grid solar on the roof where the AC unit used to bolt down. Peek inside Linework inside

Linework

Road-Ready
ex-Route 72 Killingsworth

Bunk-over-cab for the kids, a fold-flat dinette, and off-grid solar on the roof where the AC unit used to bolt down.

2009 New Flyer 35 ft · sleeps 4 Built $98,500
The Fareless — converted 2004 Gillig Phantom, ex-Route 20 Burnside Inside The Fareless — A wood-stove corner, a soaking tub over the rear axle, and the original Burnside blind framed above the desk. Peek inside The Fareless inside

The Fareless

Full Home
ex-Route 20 Burnside

A wood-stove corner, a soaking tub over the rear axle, and the original Burnside blind framed above the desk.

2004 Gillig Phantom 40 ft · sleeps 2 Built $156,000
The detail we keep

Your kitchen still says Downtown.

It felt wrong to throw away the part that told you where the bus was going. So every build keeps its destination roll sign — rewired to glow over a stove, a desk, a bed. Strangers at campgrounds still ask which line it ran.

Destination blind 14 · Alberta
People who signed the title
“I toured a half-gutted bus on a Saturday, saw exactly how the wall went in, and signed two weeks later. No surprises.”
Dana Reyes — Lives full-time in The Cascadia, parked on five acres outside Bend.
“They kept the old route sign over my stove. Strangers at campgrounds still ask which line it ran.”
Marcus Oyelaran — Took delivery of Linework after a seven-month build.

Come walk through a half-finished bus before it's yours.

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