Chassis build versus motorhome build
Hi there, I bought an advertised 1998 Georgie Boy in California and brought it back to New York. I took the paperwork to the DMV and they noticed the title says 1997 and the vehicle transfer document ...
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Bumpyroad wrote:Dutch_12078 wrote:Bumpyroad wrote:
I was looking at motor homes at the Foretravel dealer in TENN, Alcoa?, and saw a unit across the lot and the saleslady said it was a 2003 or so on a Ford chassis. I mentioned that the wheels looked awfully tiny for a 1999 or newer chassis and sure enough it had the 16 inch wheels. there were several years different between chassis and body. some yearly changes are important, some not.
bumpy
I suspect she was a bit off on the coach year on that one. The last 16" wheeled F53 chassis was the 1997 with the 460 V8 engine. The 1999's came with 19.5's and the Triton V10. There were no 1998 F53's.
yep. don't see where we disagree at all. it was built on a pre 1999 ford chassis with 16 inch wheels. but the model year of the motorhome was several years into the 1999 chassis vintage.
bumpy
No disagreement, Bumpy, I just think she was a ways off on her "2003 or so" guess of the year. More likely, it was no newer than a '99 coach model year, with a '98 being more likely. In that time period, it would have been highly unusual for a chassis to sit around more than a model year without going into production, two model years at the very outside. Even during the 2007/2008 down turn period, RV manufactures were selling off excess chassis inventory to other specialized vehicle manufacturers, rather than having them sitting around for extended times.
