What Constitutes Vintage Class A
DW and I are dissatisfied with the build quality, and lifestyle of our new 2013 travel trailer. We're having trouble selling outright, due to a seeming glut on the market. We are considering trading i...
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rgatijnet1 wrote:RayChez wrote:
I believe vintage coaches would be twenty and older. That is what it is on automobiles, so it probably would be after twenty.
Have read several RVer's recommending Prevosts and MCI etc etc. These chassis would have to be old bus chassis in order to be vintage. Now it sounds nice to say get a old Prevost, but you also have to think, how many miles this chassis has on it when being used as a commercial bus. Probably a million miles before they retire them. So my point is that it is going to take lots of money to restore that chassis and parts and engines do not come cheap. So you got to consider how much it would take to restore and whether it is worth it, and you also have to figure that it is old and a lot of places they will not even let you in the RV parks. They do not have slides which makes it pretty crowded in comparison to todays coaches with lots of room.
Personally I would not take an old Prevost or MCI etc. Things wear out no matter how good it was built when it was new.
You can do what ever turns you on, but what I just posted is something to think about.
They have been building top of the line RV's on Prevost and MCI chassis for well over 20 years. In fact, the link I gave a few posts back showed a 1985 Prevost RV with ONLY 108,000 miles. That would be hardly worn and it certainly meets your standard of over 20 years old. That one did not have slides but slides started on the Prevost chassis about the same time they started on the other brands.
Here is a 1988 Prevost with 44,000 miles and a slide. Again, not worn out and certainly ready for tens of thousands of more miles without a concern. Liberty Coach
It seems like I have read many times in this forum to stay away from coaches that have just been sitting around. This Prevost with only 44K miles in 26 years puts out a red flag immediately. It is the worst thing you can do to a coach is to let it sit for years at a time. Gaskets dry up and things just start to deteriorate. With 44K miles it probably still had the original tires.
