FRED with a rear small "garage"

[David_Walters]

Hello to all!

Thanks for the contributions on this site,I've read and learnt quite a lot by reading through all of the posts by all the helpful people here.

I've also spent quite a lot of time on youtube,google,RV sales web sites looking for a class A FRED with the small rear garage.

Looking for:
-FRED prefer.
-something smaller,say 28-32'
-years say from 2005 to 2012,up to $100k.
-prefer diesel,prefer Cummins but OK with International
-not fussy which side slide(s) are on,wall or not I don't care.
-not fussy about door location,layout.
-hopefully room to install a combo washer/dryer or has one
-prefer not having air brakes due to less maintenance and fooling about.
-single guy,to live in and travel around. Semi retired quite young.May pick up a GF along the way,who knows.


Why:
-don't really want a tow car,I can tow but would prefer not to have the extra drama.
-I'm used to driving a 21' Ford F350 Crew long box with a camper hanging 3' off the back plus another 2' with dirt bike carrier so I was at 26' and got around fine without a towed car.
-I have a Ducati motorcycle that would fit into the aft stowage-no tow car- and I'm Ok with maybe needing to remove one of the handlebars to fit.
-have mountain bike,paddle board,kayak,etc
-RED with the low pass throughs could take some of the stuff,maybe mountain bikes but not motorcycle.
-don't want the $$,$$$ Ducati motorcycle on a ramp on the hitch hanging off the back of the rig,RED nor FRED. Out of sight,out of mind.
-I've looked at "toy haulers" but they're bigger than what I need.

You could say the most important thing is that rear stowage.

I have figured out that if a unit has a bedroom slide it won't have a large aft stowage,so I can look through hundreds of pictures and quickly pick possibilities.

To date I have found:
-Damon/Thor Avanti 3106: The rear garage entry is 29" wide by 41" high. Flat all the way through,bike would squeeeeeeeze in and all would fit.

-Thor Serrano 31: The Z and V have the garage, the X doesn't (or whatever I may have them mixed up). But seems to have a hump in the middle sticking up,don't know if bike would fit.
Don't know the door size.

-Monaco Vesta: Has a large opening,but has a very large hump in the centre,looks about a foot high...bike likely wouldn't fit. Shame as I like the layout and looks.

-Gulf Stream Yellowstone: Looks like bike will fit and is flat all the way through. Don't know measurements of the opening but looks huge but this is a 36' coach.

I would take a gas one and MAYBE go up a couple feet if it meant being able to have my garage.

There is a bewildering array of brands,models,versions that it's so hard to screen though.

Would anyone know off hand of any more units that have what I am looking for especially with the rear garage?

And if anyone has one,if you could be so kind as to leasure the height and width of the rear opening for me?
I can let air out of the tires and squeeze into a 40" high opening.

I feel like a bit of a heel coming on here and asking,and unable to contribute much.
Thanks to all in advance for any assistance or tips you may have to give.

Regards

Dave

[MrWizard]

Garage ? or just a large storage space

Thor Serrano has rear storage with three doors, a large space with lots of room
but it is NOT a garage, you will never get a Motorized Vehicle in there
because of loading problems, the doors do NOT open at floor level

never mind just saw the "Ducati" mentioned

[David_Walters]

Thanks for replies,but that Newmar at 39-40+ is just too big and though I can well afford it...too mucho dinero.

I can buy a Damon Avanti with room for my stuff AND have $50k left over from not buying the Newmar. Which ought to last me a few years.

Have looked in the Toy hauler section,but almost all of those links are for trailers,and the rest are for units much larger than I need.

Like I said,it has to be a 40" or so high opening and space,by about 26-30" wide opening and space for my Ducati to squeeze in.
I've looked at Super Cs,can't really find anything. Either the aft is designed to carry 2 quads,or they put the genset and furnace back there.

Thanks again,any other ideas?

[Blackdiamond]

Look here in the Toy Hauler forum, the bottom of the list has some motorized TH list of TH

[rollingslow]

Didnt national rv make some MH with a garage

[Mr_Mark1]

JoeH wrote:
While bigger than you want, you could check out mid-engine diesels with a garage. Here's one here , a Newmar, and if you do a search on Travel Supreme mid-engine, you may find some for sale.

What an excellent suggestion for the Original Poster. You just about checked off everything on his list.

I have never seen a 'side' toy hauler like that. I've seen where the rear opens or the sides will have drop down doors but not slides like that.... cool if everything checks out operationally.

MM.

[Executive45]

Dick, did you miss that huge cover in the middle of the hallway?? I think you'll find it at night as you're headed to the bathroom in the dark ...:W...Dennis



What I found interesting is it's listed as a 43 footer with no tag axle. With the extra "space" in the rear, I would question the CCC.. That 350 will cause that rig to struggle out west......Dennis

[bluwtr49]

How on earth do you access the engine??? I didn't see any pics of that at all.

[RoyB]

I did a goggle search for the word 'FRED RV' to figure out what FRED stood for... Turned out to be a FRont Engine Diesel chassis...

Post makes alittle more sense to me now...

[JoeH]

While bigger than you want, you could check out mid-engine diesels with a garage. Here's one here , a Newmar, and if you do a search on Travel Supreme mid-engine, you may find some for sale.

[ncrowley]

Newmar has a coach with a rear garage.

[Kayteg1]

What was the question? 😉
Being technical hobbyist I did follow all the ideas I could see with garage build-into motorhome.
About 20 years ago somebody made a prototype what was kind of rollback tow truck with a boat on it.
The truth is none of those ideas went past prototype.
Floating pushers seem to be the only idea who had more than 1 build.
I actually liked the idea of mid-ship garage, but that would allow only very low, sporty car with limited length.
Forget about taking our Jack Russels Terrriers for a sightseeing.