True.
When I rode it, the Grummans had just started coming in. There were still plenty of Fishbowls on the routes.
I also remember the big snafu with the Grummans. They got taken off the streets and the RTS started appearing.
I was so into it that I even wrote a paper in my 5th grade English class about the Grumman situation. I was only 10 for crying out loud, but I was that much involved in the newspaper stories. Looking back, I wondered what my English teacher was thinking getting a paper like that from a kid. Probably that a parent or older sibling helped me with it, right?
If I tell you that my friend who was also 10 at the time and I would have debates over which bus was better looking: the Grumman or the RTS. And boy oh boy, did he let me have it when the Grummans were ordered off the streets. :-)