| Re: Creating a Poll for the first time - be gentle! [message #215207 is a reply to message #215159] |
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bryant374
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Registered: May 2004
Location: Pleasant Valley, NY 12569
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Richard,
Although I voted (appears I'm in a minority group) no one catagory fits my thoughts. Here are a few of my thoughts (call them opinions or biases if you like):
First, I'm a traditionalist. What drew me to the GMC MotorHome was the original design, the inovation and the uniqueness. Many of us drove them for 100 or 200K miles and with proper maintenance had few if any reliability issues and a ton of good times.
That was then, this is now.
Forty years or so and many thousands of miles have passed. Some talented folks have designed some wonderful new gagets for us, I remember well when we had a choice of only ONE final drive ratio or ONE air bag design, etc. There now are many choices, the question in my mind is, after we make all those changes, when is it no longer REALLY the GMC MH we so admired?
So here is what I really think:
- We need an RV for reliable travel, change it to your needs for reliable and comfortable travel, enjoy!
- We need (maybe a couple/few) of GMC Motorhomes that are very nice originals to be preserved. There are very few presently in that state, likely decreasing rapidly. The example presently in the RV Museum in Elkhart has littly resembleance to an original GMC (in my opinion). We should be able to do better.
- we need to scrap for parts recovery poor examples of GMC motorhomes. Enticing some potential GMCer with a low price only to find the costs to rehab (properly) are significant and results in an unhappy experience. Likely the GMC is put back on the market only to repeat the cycle again. Get them off the market and into the parts pile.
- If only 50% of the coaches in the Registry were kept as operational, functional, useful coaches, it is unlikely demand would ever match supply. That over supply has driven prices down with little likelyhood of recovery. Scrapping the poor examples may help this problem some, for sure will help the parts availability.
Note: I have changed my opinion over the past several years. A number of years ago I would have been outraged at the thought of "destroying" a GMC. Times have changed, we have a glut of vehicles and not sufficient buyers. We should do everything we can to encourage new GMC MH ownership, I do.
Regards,
Bill Bryant
PO 1976~PB (owned 34 years)
1914 Ford (owned 70 years)
1965 Corvette (owned 39 years)
GMC Motorhome History
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