The last of the Flyer E901A trolley buses were retired from active service in Vancouver on April 20th, 2008. Many had already been withdrawn from service in the year and a half leading up to that final day, some of which had already been scrapped.

However, 80 of the old trolley coaches were given a reprieve from the scrapper. It was confirmed around the time the buses were retiring from active service with Translink that they would be sold to the company running transit in Mendoza, Argentina. Representatives from the company sifted through the dead buses at OTC and hand-picked the 80 that they would buy at a cost of $2,300 apiece.

On October 31st, 2008, members of the media, along with some members of the Transit Museum Society and Trans-Continental's photographers, were granted access to Fraser Surrey Docks where the buses were being loaded onto the ship that would take them to South America. Special thanks to Drew Snider of Translink, Brady Erno of Fraser Surrey Docks, and all others that made this photo opportunity possible.