My New Distraction

[robinson46176]

Any updates?

My wife and I just acquired an old class C motorhome and are trying to get it ready to go. The water damage that is so common on these RVs is minimal on it and so far I'm pretty happy with it. We hope to use it a lot but are still looking at other directions for long distance travel like across country type stuff. Silly fuel prices are a big factor.


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[dusty]

Any updates?

My wife and I just acquired an old class C motorhome and are trying to get it ready to go. The water damage that is so common on these RVs is minimal on it and so far I'm pretty happy with it. We hope to use it a lot but are still looking at other directions for long distance travel like across country type stuff. Silly fuel prices are a big factor.


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There has been no significant progress as of yet. Getting the RV relocated to our residence has become a small problem. Though it has belonged in the family for these many years, the registration has not been kept current. Now getting it registered and ultimately insured has been difficult.

I expect to have the trailer in the drive way some time next week or early the week thereafter.

By using photographs and Sketchup I have been attempting to complete all of the advance planning for the intended tear down and rebuild.

It also appears that I have ven minimal water damage - oh I so hope.

Good luck with your endeavors and may you have a safe and uneventful maiden voyage with yours.

[frank81]

are still looking at other directions for long distance travel like across country type stuff. Silly fuel prices are a big factor.


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You could always try this!

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[fredsheldon]

Or you could try this, it gets 25 mpg on the highway and 22 in town. And it has a bathroom

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I won this one on E-bay as the only bidder for $47,500. It's an Airstream Interstate, 2004 model. It was less than a year old and had 9,000 miles on it. You usually can find them on E-bay these days for $35,000 with less than 50,000 miles on them. They have a 5 cyl MB turbo charged diesel and can pull a 5,000 trailer as well. I use it as a daily driver to my grandkids ball games and my little boat sailing hobby.

[robinson46176]

This class C is only going to need minimal work. It is actually usable as is but there are still many things I "want" to do to it. Lots of little tweaks and up-keep items. I do need to replace the wood shelf above the fridge and install a new back-splash behind the kitchen stove.
One of the biggest things I want to do is redecorating the interior.While it all needs thorough cleaning including the carpeting which is fairly new I really dislike the interior. The layout is generally fine and it is roomy and open (I hate it when they try to make a camper all chopped up like a tiny 6 room house). It has a lot of good storage. The paneling is good but is a wood-grain about the color of decaying brown oatmeal that is turning gray.
Looks like it passed away.
The trim is darker brown and for some reason they thought it should be "rustic". They ran it through some kind of machine that made it look like cheap crating lumber with machine drive marks all along its face except you can tell it was intentional. This is an old 1978 and styles were a bit different then. I don't really care that it is "out of date". Such things don't matter much to me as long as it is decent but this interior is just kind of depressing. The paneling isn't grooved like most of it was so it would paint easy, We are just trying to pick some good colors. The lower cabinet doors are the same sad color as the walls. The upper cabinets are all stronger grained tambor and look a lot better than the gloomy lower doors. The bathroom door is in the center of the back and is very dark brown. It sucks the light out of the space like a black-hole.
The bathroom is quite light and cheery...
I'll try to remember to get some pictures.
Like many of these it sat much more than it was driven. The people we bought it from never did get around to using it...


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[robinson46176]

I remembered to take a couple of pictures this morning.
In the drivers side shot you can see where I have started repairing some peeling and light rust at the lower edge of the driver's door. I am also doing the bottom front edge of the hood and one other spot just behind the front bumper.
We still need to clean the outside grunge from where it was sitting and never washed. We find "Soft-Scrub" to be a good product for that. It's not something that you want to do a lot but when something has a lot of old grunge it will really brighten it up. Wax will follow.
We will replace the faded (and a couple of missing) clearance lights with LED lights. I replaced a bad wiper blade yesterday. Just lots of little things... Some of the cabinet door and drawer handles need replacing and we will likely just replace all of them alike.
That top / shelf above the fridge will be woodworking and I want to reconfigure one bunk bed from an upper bunk into a storage shelf by removing the front half. Kind of hard to explain, I'll try to get a before and after picture.

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[jebber]

Very Interesting and makes me wish I had more land to work on larger projects like this.

I'm looking forward to seeing your progress.

[robinson46176]

You will notice that the brand name of the motorhome is "Honey".
For some reason my wife flatly rejected my suggestion that we buy vinyl letters and add the word "Wagon" below it.


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