Does RV Size matter?

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> All the Forrest and coastal campgrounds have a 19' limit here in Orgn, so I
> went to a 23 (19' feet between the wheels ;>)
>
> just my story
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> Gene Fisher -- 74-23,77PB/ore/ca


Our first coach was a 23. It is cute and nimble. Then our friends the Van Winkles visited and they have a 26. With a full couch we decided it was 12 feet longer inside! The 23 has a dry shower and a bigger bed. Layout is everything. But the Eleganza typical layout did seem 12 feet longer, so much that my wife made Randy and I park side by side, with front bumpers even. She then measured at the back. Three feet. Think of that. We did an almost five week trip to Vermont, from CA, and were happy as can be.

Now we drive a 26' Eleganza SE with original gears and it is a cruiser. Love our coach.


--
'74 Eleganza, SE



Best Wishes,

George
 
> I love this reasoning. I only ever find one flaw in it... you need 70K in cash, or a lot of home equity, to do the GMC route. Some idiot dealer is almost guaranteed to give you financing on the new A. One of the things I love about my GMC... pay as you go. One of the things I hate about my GMC, I can't actually pay as fast as I want to go...


For me it's not the $$$ it's the time I have available to work on it that is the limiter. Now if I had all the time I wanted the $$$ limits could come into play.

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Steve Southworth
1974 Glacier TZE064V100150
Palmyra WI
 
All of this is music to my ears! I'm a big guy and these are little vehicles. I've looked at so many 40+ foot Bluebirds and Newells and Prevosts and I never felt intimidated by anything but the cost of purchase and maintenance. Although the GMC route means maintenance costs, they are paled in comparison to the big guys. Just tires alone - I can put new tires on a GMC for about the same cost as one tire for a BB. If not for the costs (and the wonderful people we hope to meet in the GMC community) I'd own a 45 foot bus.

I'm getting close on one (GMC). Just waiting to hear from one more guy before I get in my car or on a plane. I just have to get over the fact that i'm going to have to stoop a bit when I walk around and I'm probably going to have to sleep in a fetal position..and stand in the sink to take a shower.

This has been a real journey for me. When I met Ken Henderson back in the fall I never thought this would be a real option for me. Now I have a reasonable assurance that I can get this thing in my back yard - no storage costs, I can drive it to Atlanta and park in front of my daughters house without intruding on her life and I can afford it!

One thing, though. Don't discount the Wanderlodge community. The Wanderlodge Owner's Group website is incredibly huge and the people there (as well as the much smaller Newell group) are some of the finest in the world. I just wish I could afford to buy one of each.

Now if I could only find a raised roof, stretched GMC with a diesel pusher engine. 8)
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Stick (I used to be skinny) Miller
Wannabe
Americus, Georgia
 
> Now if I could only find a raised roof, stretched GMC with a diesel pusher engine. 8)


:lol: So what floorplan are you leaning towards?

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Carlo
77 GMC Model 26 Kingsley~ "Carbon Footprint"
 
The cost of operation is something many do not seem to factor in to a DP. My uncle paid the local Freightliner folks 400 bux for an oil change on his Alergo Bus. I nearly fell out. It costs me about 20 bux to change my own oil in the GMC. Oh well, he has deep pockets, I don't. But, I have more fun in our GMC than he does in the Bus.
Dan
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Dan & Teri Gregg

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You're so right, Carlo. Makes you feel really insignificant parked
near/between those big boys.

Sandra and Bob Price (on our way from TX to Nova Scotia--still enjoying the
journey after almost six weeks in "The Roadhouse", with lots of interest in
our coach here in Wells, ME).

>
>
> This was the first time I realized how small and nimble the GMC's are
> compared with SOB. This is an old pic from FEB 2010 from ALL Wheel
> Brake/Alignment in Redding CA. This was our second stop in waking up Carbon
> Footprint from a 5 year hibernation with the PO. This shop has a GMC parts
> book on hand and a line to JimK if anyone needs service in Reding CA.
>
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> http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo304/99flyer/1977%20GMC%20Motorhome%20Kingsley/biglittle2.jpg
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> Carlo
> 77 GMC Model 26 Kingsley~ "Carbon Footprint"
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“Life’s a Trip” in “The Roadhouse”
’73 Painted Desert
Huntsville, TX

Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another, be sympathetic, love
as brothers, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or
insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so
that you may inherit a blessing. --1 Peter 3:8-9
 
"So what floorplan are you leaning towards?"

If there was a nice one available in my pricerange it would be an Edgemont with long twins and dry bath. I'm probably going to opt for something else - most likely a wet bath. My wife is gonna kill me...a WET bath!

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Stick (I used to be skinny) Miller
Wannabe
Americus, Georgia
 
> "So what floorplan are you leaning towards?"
>
> If there was a nice one available in my pricerange it would be an Edgemont with long twins and dry bath. I'm probably going to opt for something else - most likely a wet bath. My wife is gonna kill me...a WET bath!


I have a dry side bath with rear twins. This was the 1st and only GMC I looked at when I bought it 6 months ago. At the Auburn rally, I was suprised to see how many GMC'ers envied this floorplan. I didn't get it at first, but now I do. It is a very comfortable floor plan.
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Carlo
77 GMC Model 26 Kingsley~ "Carbon Footprint"
 
Some people have all the luck.

Byron

>
> I have a dry side bath with rear twins. This was the 1st and only GMC I looked
> at when I bought it 6 months ago. At the Auburn rally, I was suprised to see
> how many GMC'ers envied this floorplan. I didn't get it at first, but now I
> do. It is a very comfortable floor plan.
> --
> Carlo
> 77 GMC Model 26 Kingsley~ "Carbon Footprint"
 
I never felt intimidated by anything but the cost of purchase and maintenance

Do the maintenance yourself. 25 qts of oil, a huge filter, grease 9
fittings, you're done for another 8 - 10,000 miles depending on what
your oil analysis says..

Just tires alone - I can put new tires on a GMC for about the same
cost as one tire for a BB. If not for the costs (and the wonderful
people we hope to meet in the GMC community) I'd own a 45 foot bus.

Yes, but don't forget, the tires last over 100,000 miles. My last set
went 106,000 miles and had decent tread left on them.

I'm getting close on one (GMC). Just waiting to hear from one more
guy before I get in my car or on a plane. I just have to get over the
fact that i'm going to have to stoop a bit when I walk around and I'm
probably going to have to sleep in a fetal position..and stand in the
sink to take a shower.

Sleeping on your side in the fetal position is the best thing you can
do for your back.
That small shower is more than I had in 26 years in the Navy.

Now if I could only find a raised roof, stretched GMC with a diesel
pusher engine.

Now you're back to buying a big pusher! Love the GMC for what it is.

--
Steve Ferguson
'76 EII
Sierra Vista, AZ
Urethane bushing source
www.bdub.net/ferguson/
 
Stick,

I understand and appreciate that observation.

Others,

About the price of tires -- big truck tires last a l-o-n-g time. No limit
like the medium truck tires.

Oil change? Price?

So, how do we justify even having a motorhome of any brand when it comes to
the financial side? You guys on here told me just a little over a month ago
not to consider financial outlay but to consider the fun of ownership. Have
you changed your minds or do you only mention that when its to your
advantage?

Give me a break. The difference between men and boys is the price of their
toys, right? Some folks just spend more on their bad habits than others.

I'll tell you this. It sure beats chasing a little white ball around a cow
pasture trying to get it to go into a snake hole. And the excuse about
exercise? You call walking to and from a self-propelled wagon exercise?

Byron

> One thing, though. Don't discount the Wanderlodge community. The Wanderlodge
> Owner's Group website is incredibly huge and the people there (as well as the
> much smaller Newell group) are some of the finest in the world. I just wish I
> could afford to buy one of each.
>
> --
> Stick (I used to be skinny) Miller
> Wannabe
> Americus, Georgia
 
Now if I could only find a raised roof, stretched GMC with a diesel pusher engine. Cool
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you were probably speaking tongue in cheek but that strange GMC rebuild that was mentioned here recently, was higher than a regular GMC.

True from the waist line up it was rebuilt, but from the waist line down, it was all GMC.

It appears taller as the storage pods are ABOVE the windows, not OVER the window as in an OEM GMC.

Maybe reconsider this one if it is in decent shape????????

LarC ( These things don't come to this board for no reason, sometimes. )


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74 GLACIER X, 260
455/APC/4 bagg'r(ver3)
Remflex Manifold gaskets
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Byron - Conventional wisdom is that on a 40,000 lb bus or a GMC - 5-6 years is the limit on tires regardless of the mileage. The increased weight of the bus probably makes this more crucial. At least that is what I'm told. I know people who have bought Bluebirds with Zero mileage since the tires were changed out that replaced them before the ride home. I don't blame them.

Hey, I'm going to look at a Bluebird next Sunday. It is an old FC with the engine in the front and a 3208 Cat at that. Driving a big bus is a pleasure to me. My dad had a new GMC in the 70's. It is like driving a Cadillac, but it is not the macho thing of driving a big DP, IMHO.

Having said all that, I've had neither and I'm going for the GMC.

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Stick (I used to be skinny) Miller
Wannabe
Americus, Georgia
 
There were pictures of that coach at a rally 2-3 years ago. He had put a stretched GMC body on a diesel pusher chassis. Maybe some one knows where to find them.



Now if I could only find a raised roof, stretched GMC with a diesel pusher engine. Cool
_________________________________________________________


you were probably speaking tongue in cheek but that strange GMC rebuild that was mentioned here recently, was higher than a regular GMC.

True from the waist line up it was rebuilt, but from the waist line down, it was all GMC.

It appears taller as the storage pods are ABOVE the windows, not OVER the window as in an OEM GMC.

Maybe reconsider this one if it is in decent shape????????

LarC ( These things don't come to this board for no reason, sometimes. )


--
Gatsbys' CRUISER :d
74 GLACIER X, 260
455/APC/4 bagg'r(ver3)
Remflex Manifold gaskets
_______________________________________________
Purchased 08-18-04

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That was from the Amana Colonies GMCMI fall convention. I'll look to
see if I still have the pictures

Emery Stora

>
>
>
> There were pictures of that coach at a rally 2-3 years ago. He had
> put a stretched GMC body on a diesel pusher chassis. Maybe some one
> knows where to find them.
>
>
>
> Now if I could only find a raised roof, stretched GMC with a diesel
> pusher engine. Cool
> _________________________________________________________
>
>
> you were probably speaking tongue in cheek but that strange GMC
> rebuild that was mentioned here recently, was higher than a regular
> GMC.
>
> True from the waist line up it was rebuilt, but from the waist line
> down, it was all GMC.
>
> It appears taller as the storage pods are ABOVE the windows, not
> OVER the window as in an OEM GMC.
>
> Maybe reconsider this one if it is in decent shape????????
>
> LarC ( These things don't come to this board for no reason,
> sometimes. )
>
>
> --
> Gatsbys' CRUISER :d
> 74 GLACIER X, 260
> 455/APC/4 bagg'r(ver3)
> Remflex Manifold gaskets
> _______________________________________________
> Purchased 08-18-04
>
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That was a cool looking rig. I have pictures of it in one of my photo albums.
I don't buy that on the truck tires. I have seen them dry rotted just like our's in 5 years. I would not run a set for ten, no way. But, to each his own. I just don't take chances with tires.
Byron, you got a break when Martha said "I do".
Dan
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Dan & Teri Gregg

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> http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=22646&title=hpim3252-medium-&cat=4836


that's cool! If I had spent all the time and $$ I would have at least gone with a double axle. That's one visual characteristic of the GMC that is trademark. Actually I wouldn't go that route, I would stick with my coach and keep the floorplan. I love the look. I love the community and I like the small total investment. There is NO better deal in RV'ing. Period. (in my not so humble opinion)

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Carlo
77 GMC Model 26 Kingsley~ "Carbon Footprint"
 
Steve said, "For me it's not the $$$ it's the time I have available to
work on it that is the limiter. Now if I had all the time I wanted
the $$$ limits could come into play."

Steve, don't retire! Your time is HERS then and you'll want to go
back to work to rest!

Roger Black
77 Birchaven
Burns, Tn
 
Steve, don't retire! Your time is HERS then and you'll want to go
back to work to rest!


Roger Black
77 Birchaven
Burns, Tn


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Roger, Roger, it is all in how you train those girls. :lol:

Byron, dont sweat the small stuff. We never liked your coach anyway. Martha makes us like you. So, with that in mind, close the discussion on crying the blues, sell the old Royalle and enjoy the SOB. Just don't forget about your friends, or I should say Martha's friends.
Come see us.
Dan
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