| Re: non-GMC trip report making our coaches look good [message #323564 is a reply to message #323528] |
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Matt Colie
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Registered: March 2007
Location: S.E. Michigan
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Johnny Bridges wrote on Thu, 07 September 2017 16:47Gas here is up to 2.80 from 2.19. I understand the further South you go, the worse it gets. I'll note, as late as 1985 when their head of Marketing spoke to us, ALL delta employees were hired from within. He said he moved up from Ramp Rat, the options being Flight Engineer, Reservations Clerk, apprentice mechanic, or Flight Attendant. Everyone from the CEO on down. They started coming apart when they went outside the Company for executives and haven't recovered.
But I don't see a month wait for a part, particularly on a new coach. Walk out to the yard, yank that part off a new coach, and send it.
--johnny
Gas here has gone from 2.25 to 2.50 and very little comes for the gulf coast.
About the part, from what I understood (I was not really eager to listen, but I had to pretend) this was a chassis part (you do know that most motorhomes have two builders, and chassis builder and the coach builder and they do not have a JimK that can get you anything), and that chassis was now out of production. It actually took six weeks before the coach was back on the road.
In the early days, Motorhomes always had two names (not like Billy-Bob) like Dodge-Travco, Winnebago-Chevy and etc. This is why the early GMCs were often called GMC-Gemini. Though the situation was very different as GMC did not ship Gemini a bare chassis to build on as they chose.
Matt
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan with OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Near DTW - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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