What happened to pickup truck based "C"s?
While looking at YouTube, I noticed an older Four Winds Majestic (before that became the brand that used rentals were sold under) being pitched at RV Corral. It was on a 4x4 F-350 chassis. Having ...
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I don't see the advantage of a 4X4 class C.It would be nice on icy roads but actual 4X4 in the mountains raises terror on heavy vehicles from the twisting and bending going over rocks and ruts.
Dualies with weight on them goes in remarkable places giving lot's of traction,more so than single tires.
Width and ground clearance are the keys to getting into remote places,atleast in Idaho.Having logged most of my life,I have taken many trailers/fifth wheels and motorhomes into remote places and just don't see where 4X4 would benefit on a motorhome for "normal" off pavement camping.
I have owned several 4X4 pickups with a camper on the back and chose my currant Class C over pickup camper because of room inside.It is narrower than a Lance 8.5 and I have the clearance of a new 4X4,maybe more than some I see.My unit is 21ft.6" long bumper to bumper and my sons 2500 HD is 19 ft long making it about the length of a pickup and 9 ft camper.
99.5% 0f all my camping is off pavement on old logging roads and un-maintained roads where ground clearance and camper width is very important to get to the places I go.
Anything lower to the ground or wider would not have made it to this place I just got back from at the end of the road at a trail head.I s****ed just a little going in and out and a limb took off my cell antenna..
The only advantage I see to a pickup chassis is getting to the motor for maintenance.
Dualies with weight on them goes in remarkable places giving lot's of traction,more so than single tires.
Width and ground clearance are the keys to getting into remote places,atleast in Idaho.Having logged most of my life,I have taken many trailers/fifth wheels and motorhomes into remote places and just don't see where 4X4 would benefit on a motorhome for "normal" off pavement camping.
I have owned several 4X4 pickups with a camper on the back and chose my currant Class C over pickup camper because of room inside.It is narrower than a Lance 8.5 and I have the clearance of a new 4X4,maybe more than some I see.My unit is 21ft.6" long bumper to bumper and my sons 2500 HD is 19 ft long making it about the length of a pickup and 9 ft camper.
99.5% 0f all my camping is off pavement on old logging roads and un-maintained roads where ground clearance and camper width is very important to get to the places I go.
Anything lower to the ground or wider would not have made it to this place I just got back from at the end of the road at a trail head.I s****ed just a little going in and out and a limb took off my cell antenna..
The only advantage I see to a pickup chassis is getting to the motor for maintenance.
