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| Re: 1978 Center Kitchen Royale for Sale [message #358016 is a reply to message #357994] |
Mon, 24 August 2020 14:48   |
Scott Nutter
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Really nice looking “mostly original” coach. Cadillac motor I guess is a plus. I wonder how the frame is? Could be a great candidate for a rear twin bed conversion!
Scott.
Scott Nutter
1978 Royale Center Kitchen, Patterson 455, switch pitch tranny, 3.21 final drive, Quad bags, Dave Lenzi super duty mid axle disc brakes, tankless water heater, everything Lenzi. Alex Ferrera installed MSD Atomic EFI
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| Re: [GMCnet] 1978 Center Kitchen Royale for Sale [message #358028 is a reply to message #358016] |
Mon, 24 August 2020 20:15 |
Jerry Wheeler
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Scott Nutter writes: "could it be a great candidate for a rear twin bed
conversion"...
Yes, it could be if you are only 5 feet tall OR you would have to cut holes
in the closet on the passenger side. How do I know?? I owned a center
kitchen Royale and ended up buying another Royale with the rear lounge
which I converted into rear twins. This was back in 2000, when I had 3
GMCs at one time.
JR Wheeler 78 Royale NC/OR
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 3:55 PM Scott Nutter via Gmclist <
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> Really nice looking “mostly original” coach. Cadillac motor I guess is a
> plus. I wonder how the frame is? Could be a great candidate for a rear
> twin bed conversion!
> Scott.
> --
> Scott Nutter
> 1978 Royale Center Kitchen, Patterson 455, switch pitch tranny, 3.21 final
> drive, Quad bags, tankless water heater, everything Lenzi. Alex Ferrera
> installed MSD Atomic EFI
> Houston, Texas
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| Re: [GMCnet] 1978 Center Kitchen Royale for Sale [message #358031 is a reply to message #358016] |
Mon, 24 August 2020 21:21 |
dan molnes
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Is a 500 a plus? Or just a wash I’m a little partial to center kitchens also as I can’t seem to want to sell mine , did you convert yours to twins
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> On Aug 24, 2020, at 12:55 PM, Scott Nutter via Gmclist wrote:
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> Really nice looking “mostly original” coach. Cadillac motor I guess is a plus. I wonder how the frame is? Could be a great candidate for a rear
> twin bed conversion!
> Scott.
> --
> Scott Nutter
> 1978 Royale Center Kitchen, Patterson 455, switch pitch tranny, 3.21 final drive, Quad bags, tankless water heater, everything Lenzi. Alex Ferrera
> installed MSD Atomic EFI
> Houston, Texas
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| Re: 1978 Center Kitchen Royale for Sale [message #358056 is a reply to message #357994] |
Tue, 25 August 2020 20:14 |
Scott Nutter
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I did not convert mine to twins, and I don’t think I ever will. When people convert their center kitchens to rear twins they usually cut the rear cabinets to accommodate their feet. But I just measured, and the max head to toe length is 6 feet 1 inch with the modified rear cabinet.
But I could NEVER cut the original wood in the interior. It is just too beautiful.
The nice thing about the rear lounge is that it can be converted to full XL bed. Plenty of room to Stretch out from head to toe. Even side to side is not too bad.
Scott.
Scott Nutter
1978 Royale Center Kitchen, Patterson 455, switch pitch tranny, 3.21 final drive, Quad bags, Dave Lenzi super duty mid axle disc brakes, tankless water heater, everything Lenzi. Alex Ferrera installed MSD Atomic EFI
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| Re: [GMCnet] 1978 Center Kitchen Royale for Sale [message #358065 is a reply to message #358056] |
Tue, 25 August 2020 21:23 |
Jerry Wheeler
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That is exactly why I sold my center kitchen Royale and purchased the rear
lounge Royale. I did not want to cut the cabinets in the center kitchen
model. My twin beds are 6 feet long (maybe 6'1") and I fit nicely in the
bed. Even better today since I am now 5'10" according to my doctor. One
shrinks when they get old....................and the belly swells
out.........
JR Wheeler 78 Royale NC/OR
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 9:14 PM Scott Nutter via Gmclist <
gmclist@list.gmcnet.org> wrote:
> I did not convert mine to twins, and I don’t think I ever will. When
> people convert their center kitchens to rear twins they usually cut the rear
> cabinets to accommodate their feet. But I just measured, and the max head
> to toe length is 6 feet 1 inch with the modified rear cabinet.
> But I could NEVER cut the original wood in the interior. It is just too
> beautiful.
> The nice thing about the rear lounge is that it can be converted to full
> XL bed. Plenty of room to Stretch out from head to toe. Even side to side is
> not too bad.
> Scott.
> --
> Scott Nutter
> 1978 Royale Center Kitchen, Patterson 455, switch pitch tranny, 3.21 final
> drive, Quad bags, tankless water heater, everything Lenzi. Alex Ferrera
> installed MSD Atomic EFI
> Houston, Texas
>
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| Re: 1978 Center Kitchen Royale for Sale [message #358066 is a reply to message #357994] |
Tue, 25 August 2020 21:34 |
Scott Nutter
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Jerry,
Out of Curiosity, what was the rear setup of the center kitchen that you sold? I am not familiar with all the center kitchen models.
Scott.
Scott Nutter
1978 Royale Center Kitchen, Patterson 455, switch pitch tranny, 3.21 final drive, Quad bags, Dave Lenzi super duty mid axle disc brakes, tankless water heater, everything Lenzi. Alex Ferrera installed MSD Atomic EFI
Houston, Texas
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| Re: [GMCnet] 1978 Center Kitchen Royale for Sale [message #358069 is a reply to message #358066] |
Tue, 25 August 2020 22:39 |
Jerry Wheeler
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I bought my first GMC in 1997 and attended my first GMC rally in 1998 at
Bean Station. That fall, we attended the GMCMI rally in Marion, NC. There
was almost 400 GMCs at this rally and we enjoyed the open house and loved
the Royales and the woodwork in them. So I decided to buy one and went to
FLorida to purchase a 1978 center kitchen Royale before the end of the
year. We attended the spring 1999 GMCMI rally in Myrtle Beach, SC, taking
our new to us center kitchen Royale. It didn't sleep well; it had a full
size bed going across the back of the coach and when the one sleeping
against the rear window had to go to the john in the middle of the night,
it was not fun. So we decided to purchase a third GMC, a 78 Royale rear
lounge model, which I converted into rear twins. I sold the center kitchen
model that summer. My first coach I kept for 20 years and eventually sold
it for $5000, half of what I paid for it (and that's not counting the 7
Alcoas, the heated Ramco mirrors and the Fantastic fan I put on the
coach). I just needed to get rid of the 77 transmode because I needed the
room in my Oregon home shop. I have been on the GMCnet since the 1998
GMCMI rally. I rarely post. I sold Ramco mirrors at wholesale cost for 5+
years (2000 to 2005) and put together a group buy for the Howell FI system;
that was back in 2007 best I recall. Anyway, I plan to move to my Oregon
home this fall, going home after living and working in NC for the last 50+
years.
JR Wheeler 78 Royale NC/OR
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 10:34 PM Scott Nutter via Gmclist <
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> Jerry,
> Out of Curiosity, what was the rear setup of the center kitchen that you
> sold? I am not familiar with all the center kitchen models.
> Scott.
> --
> Scott Nutter
> 1978 Royale Center Kitchen, Patterson 455, switch pitch tranny, 3.21 final
> drive, Quad bags, tankless water heater, everything Lenzi. Alex Ferrera
> installed MSD Atomic EFI
> Houston, Texas
>
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| Re: [GMCnet] 1978 Center Kitchen Royale for Sale [message #358074 is a reply to message #358069] |
Wed, 26 August 2020 06:49 |
Ken Henderson
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Jerry,
How well I remember that Marion, NC rally in '98! I'd just bought Tweety
Bird the previous April 30. I'd already rebuilt the engine I totalled at
59065 miles in the way home from Texas with it. But I'd also gutted it, so
drove the '97 40' SOB to Marion. Boy! Did I ever catch the dickens from
lots of folks!: "That gutted coach is what we WANTED to see!" Guess that
laid the foundation for Paul & Nancy Doane's habit of "sleeping on the
floor" in coaches without even dash panels! :-)
Ken H.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 11:40 PM Jerry Wheeler via Gmclist <
gmclist@list.gmcnet.org> wrote:
> I bought my first GMC in 1997 and attended my first GMC rally in 1998 at
> Bean Station. That fall, we attended the GMCMI rally in Marion, NC. There
> was almost 400 GMCs at this rally and we enjoyed the open house and loved
> the Royales and the woodwork in them. So I decided to buy one and went to
> FLorida to purchase a 1978 center kitchen Royale before the end of the
> year. We attended the spring 1999 GMCMI rally in Myrtle Beach, SC, taking
> our new to us center kitchen Royale. It didn't sleep well; it had a full
> size bed going across the back of the coach and when the one sleeping
> against the rear window had to go to the john in the middle of the night,
> it was not fun. So we decided to purchase a third GMC, a 78 Royale rear
> lounge model, which I converted into rear twins. I sold the center kitchen
> model that summer. My first coach I kept for 20 years and eventually sold
> it for $5000, half of what I paid for it (and that's not counting the 7
> Alcoas, the heated Ramco mirrors and the Fantastic fan I put on the
> coach). I just needed to get rid of the 77 transmode because I needed the
> room in my Oregon home shop. I have been on the GMCnet since the 1998
> GMCMI rally. I rarely post. I sold Ramco mirrors at wholesale cost for 5+
> years (2000 to 2005) and put together a group buy for the Howell FI system;
> that was back in 2007 best I recall. Anyway, I plan to move to my Oregon
> home this fall, going home after living and working in NC for the last 50+
> years.
> JR Wheeler 78 Royale NC/OR
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 10:34 PM Scott Nutter via Gmclist gmclist@list.gmcnet.org> wrote:
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>> Jerry,
>> Out of Curiosity, what was the rear setup of the center kitchen that you
>> sold? I am not familiar with all the center kitchen models.
>> Scott.
>> --
>> Scott Nutter
>> 1978 Royale Center Kitchen, Patterson 455, switch pitch tranny, 3.21
> final
>> drive, Quad bags, tankless water heater, everything Lenzi. Alex Ferrera
>> installed MSD Atomic EFI
>> Houston, Texas
>>
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| Re: [GMCnet] 1978 Center Kitchen Royale for Sale [message #358079 is a reply to message #358074] |
Wed, 26 August 2020 11:05 |
dan molnes
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Jerry I have a center kitchen and a rear lounge ,I’m trying to get up the strength to sell one of them but I’m conflicted. Huge bed or couch I know yuppie problems their both 78’s
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> On Aug 26, 2020, at 4:50 AM, Ken Henderson via Gmclist wrote:
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> Jerry,
>
> How well I remember that Marion, NC rally in '98! I'd just bought Tweety
> Bird the previous April 30. I'd already rebuilt the engine I totalled at
> 59065 miles in the way home from Texas with it. But I'd also gutted it, so
> drove the '97 40' SOB to Marion. Boy! Did I ever catch the dickens from
> lots of folks!: "That gutted coach is what we WANTED to see!" Guess that
> laid the foundation for Paul & Nancy Doane's habit of "sleeping on the
> floor" in coaches without even dash panels! :-)
>
> Ken H.
>
>
>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 11:40 PM Jerry Wheeler via Gmclist > gmclist@list.gmcnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> I bought my first GMC in 1997 and attended my first GMC rally in 1998 at
>> Bean Station. That fall, we attended the GMCMI rally in Marion, NC. There
>> was almost 400 GMCs at this rally and we enjoyed the open house and loved
>> the Royales and the woodwork in them. So I decided to buy one and went to
>> FLorida to purchase a 1978 center kitchen Royale before the end of the
>> year. We attended the spring 1999 GMCMI rally in Myrtle Beach, SC, taking
>> our new to us center kitchen Royale. It didn't sleep well; it had a full
>> size bed going across the back of the coach and when the one sleeping
>> against the rear window had to go to the john in the middle of the night,
>> it was not fun. So we decided to purchase a third GMC, a 78 Royale rear
>> lounge model, which I converted into rear twins. I sold the center kitchen
>> model that summer. My first coach I kept for 20 years and eventually sold
>> it for $5000, half of what I paid for it (and that's not counting the 7
>> Alcoas, the heated Ramco mirrors and the Fantastic fan I put on the
>> coach). I just needed to get rid of the 77 transmode because I needed the
>> room in my Oregon home shop. I have been on the GMCnet since the 1998
>> GMCMI rally. I rarely post. I sold Ramco mirrors at wholesale cost for 5+
>> years (2000 to 2005) and put together a group buy for the Howell FI system;
>> that was back in 2007 best I recall. Anyway, I plan to move to my Oregon
>> home this fall, going home after living and working in NC for the last 50+
>> years.
>> JR Wheeler 78 Royale NC/OR
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 10:34 PM Scott Nutter via Gmclist > gmclist@list.gmcnet.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Jerry,
>>> Out of Curiosity, what was the rear setup of the center kitchen that you
>>> sold? I am not familiar with all the center kitchen models.
>>> Scott.
>>> --
>>> Scott Nutter
>>> 1978 Royale Center Kitchen, Patterson 455, switch pitch tranny, 3.21
>> final
>>> drive, Quad bags, tankless water heater, everything Lenzi. Alex Ferrera
>>> installed MSD Atomic EFI
>>> Houston, Texas
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> GMCnet mailing list
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| Re: [GMCnet] 1978 Center Kitchen Royale for Sale [message #358196 is a reply to message #358193] |
Tue, 01 September 2020 10:48 |
Dolph Santorine
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With that aggressor Lincoln on the bill.
That’s it!
Dolph
DE AD0LF
Wheeling, West Virginia
1977 26’ ex-PalmBeach
Howell EFI & EBL, Reaction Arms, Manny Transmission
“The Aluminum and Fiberglass Mistress”
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"--OO--[]---O-"
> On Sep 1, 2020, at 11:46 AM, Johnny Bridges via Gmclist wrote:
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> Probably Yankee money :)
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> --johnny
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> Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
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