Why are the RV classes "A" - "B" - "C" ?
I fully know the difference between the three main classes of RVs, I was recently asked why the respective classes are the letter they are. I can't think of a logical reason where the nomenclature or...
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The only such letter-designation that means anything related to the letter is the first one "awarded": the "Class C". "C" stands for "Chassis", as in Chassis mount camper- first described as such in the early sixties when the first mfr's pulled the bed off a pickup and permanently installed a "living space" there. The point of "Chassis mount" was to differentiate from the traditional slide-in camper.
There was no such thing as a Class "A" or "B" at the time....those designations didn't exist at all until some smart Advertising Genius figured out that calling something a "Class A" would make it seem more valuable to a gullible public. And at least according to the number of posts we see on here that say folks are "moving UP" from a "C" to an "A", it seems to have worked pretty well.
Anyway, they started using "Class A" for anything that was a ground-up build, having no relation/visible connection to any known vehicle. As anyone that's ever tried to work on one knows...;)
"B"s came about because- well, there was this unused letter between "A" and "C", so what the heck? :)
There was no such thing as a Class "A" or "B" at the time....those designations didn't exist at all until some smart Advertising Genius figured out that calling something a "Class A" would make it seem more valuable to a gullible public. And at least according to the number of posts we see on here that say folks are "moving UP" from a "C" to an "A", it seems to have worked pretty well.
Anyway, they started using "Class A" for anything that was a ground-up build, having no relation/visible connection to any known vehicle. As anyone that's ever tried to work on one knows...;)
"B"s came about because- well, there was this unused letter between "A" and "C", so what the heck? :)
