RayChez wrote:
Yes gasoline motorhomes with big engines have lots of power, but man they eat gasoline like crazy. I had a 454 chevy pickup with a big overhead camper. I started climbing the Sierra's from Bishop to Mammoth. It went up easy, but I was almost out of fuel by the time I got to the top of the mountain. LOL! And the Ford 460 was even worse.
Many years ago, when I lived in the Flathead Valley of Northwestern Montana, not far from the West entrance to Glacier National Park, I had a 1969 Chevy C20 that was like that. I had a 9 foot camper on it, and it had the old 292 inline 6 with 4 speed tranny.
That thing had a terrible thirst for fuel!
I haven't done a fuel economy check on the Southwind (I don't really care), but from here to Great Falls it seems to take pretty much the same amount of fuel as the old Tioga 29 Foot Class C with the 460 Ford did.
