Smaller Prevost

Can't say I've ever seen a Prevost coach that size and we have been traveling full time for 11 years.

I think some of the very early Prevosts were smaller in the 1930's when they started to the 1950's.

Was the small Prevost new looking?

Prevost is missing a good part of the market by not making a smaller Prevost chassis. I think people are willing to pay for a smaller chassis with the safety and quality that comes with Prevost.

And wondering why your posts would have been deleted.

MM.

When you say Prevost, do you just mean bus?

I've seen a few of these lately:


A 30' Temsa bus.

Temsa TS30

T bone wrote:
I spotted a smaller Prevost coach the other day,a very nice looking rig but looked to be only about 26 feet long..Couldn't find anything about them on the web..Lets see if this gets deleted like the other times I posed this inquiry!!

No picture(s)???

Since all Prevost coaches are conversions using the Prevost chassis, and are custom ordered, I see no reason why a customer could not order a specific length to be produced during that process.

I remember Newmar having a small but expensive small Class A. since it had a wet bath and a tiny refrigerator I can see why it didn't last long.
bumpy

rgatijnet1 wrote:
Since all Prevost coaches are conversions using the Prevost chassis, and are custom ordered, I see no reason why a customer could not order a specific length to be produced during that process.

If they don't make them, you can't order them. Prevosts did offer a 40 ft. and a 45 ft. length for many years (can't remember the cut-off date, maybe late '90's for discontinuing the 40 ft.). Retooling for someone wanting a 35 Prevost bus would cost 10's of millions for the factory.

But let's say, you buy a shell and have it customized to a shorter bus. A converter will not do this as they only convert the interior.

I have a friend that wanted a 4 door Rolls Royce convertible. RR doesn't make that and wouldn't do it (friend flew to the factory in England). So, he bought a new RR Phantom, found a speciality custom shop and had the top cut off and the frame reinforced. The whole process took 8 yrs as the first two shops screwed it up. It was an ordeal but he finally got the car. Spending a huge sum for all of this just to have a 'one of a kind' was silly to me. RR makes a 2 door convertible .... adding another set for rear doors and the whole process to convert a Phantom he could have had 4 Phantom drop-head coupes. :h

Now, how is he going to get parts if something fails? Like the huge convertible top? Once the tip of the saw hit the metal on that new Phantom, the warranty was gone.

MM.

A number of years ago I had a bus company as a customer that leased entertainer and special use busses. They were buying shorter (at that time) chassis and stretching them to the 45 ft. length that was then the industry standard.

Obviously they felt the economics of doing so worked for their operation.

My point being, if they could stretch a bus chassis it wouldn't be any more difficult to shorten one. Truck dealers and aftermarket body builders alter the wheelbase on truck cab and chassis all of the time. It is just mechanics and someone able to do the work or willing to pay for what they want.

I've bee seeing them too. Look to be around 30' or so. They are new, like brand new. I don't think they are Prevost but definitely a bus.

No reverse - just carry the steering wheel to the other end and away you go: