Vintage Winnebago Star of the Movie

Stim wrote:
I saw the movie The Pleasure Seeker last week and a 1975 Winnebago Indian was featured.
Here is a link to a discussion on the Winnebago used in the movie with a movie trailer at the bottom.
Movie was funny but also sad.
https://winnebagolife.com/2018/04/winnebago-in-the-leisure-seeker

Fixed your link: Clicky

Stim wrote:
I saw the movie The Pleasure Seeker last week /snip/

For those purists who might want to look the movie up, it's actually The LEISURE seeker. OP was deriving PLEASURE watching it..:B....Dennis

My dad had one of those

watching Breaking Bad on Netflix today and they were using an old 80s? bounder as a meth lab. OF course they referred to it as a Class C???
bumpy

Executive wrote:

Stim wrote:
I saw the movie The Pleasure Seeker last week /snip/

For those purists who might want to look the movie up, it's actually The LEISURE seeker. OP was deriving PLEASURE watching it..:B....Dennis

Must have been that spell checker changing things! (That's my story and I am sticking to it!!)
It is a good movie that also covers the subject of Dementia.

I had a 1974 Winnebago Indian. The one in the movie was shorter, I guess politics at the time (oil embargo in 1974) caused downsizing.
Mine handled horribly with the front end too light!
It had tanks, generator and 2-40 lb propane tanks behind the back axle. You had to watch the outside mirror for a semi passing, it would blow the RV 1/2 a lane over if you weren't ready!
Bought it with a bad delaminating roof and replaced it myself, had to build it on the ground then put on and fasten.
BUT, I still had good times in it!

Double post

That brings back some old memories.
Back in the 70's I raced and the factory provided a Winnebago for going to the races and pulling the race machines on a trailer.. I am not sure which model it was but I think Chief, or something similar, comes to mind. I member it was very noisy and not comfortable to drive.

was this the era of the P-30/32 chassis?
bumpy

I believe that was before the P Series chassis. My family had a 1970 Winnebago when I was growing up. I believe it was an Indian, 23' maybe. It was on a Dodge chassis.

The first time I watched the movie RV, I knew where many of the gags in the movie came from. Not as common in modern RVs, but just a few years ago... From my earliest memories, the Winnebago had no working parking brake and putting the transmission in park really just put it in neutral. If I recall correctly, the parking "brake" shoes were separate brake shoes that engaged the drive shaft, so you can imagine how effective they were just based on the size. I usually had the duty of jumping out and chocking the wheels when we parked so it didn't roll away... Dad always said he had the transmission fixed multiple times and it always failed quickly. In the later years we owned it, the master cylinder leaked and you had to top it off and pump up the brakes before driving it. Then there were the poorly designed exhaust manifolds that always cracked. Not to mention I'm pretty sure it was severely overloaded before you put gas in the tank.

There were a lot of things to hate in that motor home, but I didn't know any different back then. Not sure if there were "better" alternatives at the time. But we loved that RV. We traveled all over the country in it sometimes tying it together with literal bailing wire (or coat hangers) and duct tape to make it back home. Ah, those were the days ;).