Not shown: two double panels of The Rolling Stones on stage, a BIG gigantography covering all the roof (from the inside) of Maradona, and a lot of small curtains and trinkets of Boca Juniors in the front.
Best one I can remeber? The dude with a fake “minibar” of alcoholic beverages next to the drivers seat, and a LOT of fluffy interiors, like you know teddy bears with long “hair” ? Yeah that but blue, everywhere. And carved mirrors, these dudes love carved mirrors for some reason.
Also frequent: little and not so little fucking altars to a miriad of small deities like saints or Gauchito Gil, Gilda, Difunta Correa, Maradona, etc
Also related: Check “fileteado porteño”, formerly very popular in buses.
A very representative one shown here: https://youtu.be/qV8up2rQ20I
Edit: Holy shit it has its own wikiepdia page https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colectivos_de_Buenos_Aires#Objetos_ornamentales Check the whole article, very cool
This rules. Love it. Really screams “you are an intimate guest in the dominion of the bus driver”.
Check “fileteado porteño”. Buses used to be personalized in that style. Really cool. These ubiquitous Joker edgy images aren’t my liking, but it’s their bus so eh
Critical support for the Heath Ledger Joker.
:joker-che:
He was the first major villain in capeshit to make a good point that was undermined by his excessive violence.
This is so cool. I’d love to be in a personalized bus with neat posters and shit all over.
Most them are like that, idk if all lines allow it, or how old in the job you have to be to personalize your unit, nor who many drivers dhare a same unit cuz I don’t think they are doing 16 hours shifts
No I mean, I don’t think they are doing shifts that long. Their union is pretty strong. So units are probably shared by two or three drivers
All aboard the t w i s t e d bus
For real though being able to visually customise the bus you drive is awesome, jonker or no jonker.
It’s true of I believe everywhere where buses are concessioned to private companies, so I believe most everywhere outside of Mexico City, Guadalajara and possibly Monterrey. Since buses outside of cities are managed (and I use that word loosely) by private companies with little oversight from the government, drivers can pimp the fuck out of their buses/vans, to the point of installing dark lights and high end speaker systems and transform them into literal party buses. Within cities, transport is administered by the government itself, particularly in Mexico City, so no pimped out buses there.
