GMC 5301 'New Look'

Per Bus World Encyclopedia of Buses (1988)

Most notes in the entry for the GMC 4516 apply to this bus.  That being a 35 foot and this a 40 foot long bus.

Model designations indicated nominal capacity (53) with the odd-numbered models (-5301, etc.) being 102 inches wide and even (-5302, etc.) being 96-inches.

Starting in 1968, the Detroit Diesel 8V-71 engine, relected by "8" in the model number, and VS transmission with overdrive were offered as options for high-speed expressway operation.

Although production of the new-look in the U.S. was discontinued in 1977, GM of Canada continued to produce them at their Ontario plant, changing the letters in the trapezoidal nameplate under the windshield from "GMC" to "GM."