Custom Eleganza on eBay interesting layout [message #245728] |
Sat, 29 March 2014 23:51 |
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mike miller
Messages: 3576 Registered: February 2004 Location: Hillsboro, Oregon
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Very interesting custom layout:
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=111312844404>
Find the shower.
This is the second time I have seen it listed and the price has dropped for this second listing. While there is a good chance the coach is worth close to the stating bid, I am not sure that the current market will justify it.
I have collected pictures from the ebay listing, but am having problems posting on the photo site... might be my computer. I'll try and figure it out later.
Mike Miller -- Hillsboro, OR -- on the Black list
(#2)`78 23' Birchaven Rear Bath -- (#3)`77 23' Birchaven Side Bath
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Re: Custom Eleganza on eBay interesting layout [message #245734 is a reply to message #245728] |
Sun, 30 March 2014 00:32 |
noi
Messages: 293 Registered: October 2010 Location: South of Fremont
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mike miller wrote on Sat, 29 March 2014 21:51 |
Find the shower.
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Interesting....
Right in the center, between the toilet/sink - I would be curious as to how the "drainage" issue is handled if the floor is not sloped to the drain!
looks like some kind of "moveable panel" arrangement maybe, I wonder if that is how it might be handled - But seems like it would still leave a lot of standing water.
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Re: Custom Eleganza on eBay interesting layout [message #245737 is a reply to message #245734] |
Sun, 30 March 2014 02:08 |
appie
Messages: 902 Registered: April 2013 Location: denmark
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6 gears ?
Appie
eleganza 76 "Olga" now sadly sold
6 wheel discbrake
Quadrabags
Springfield stage 2 462 olds
Manny tranny
( pictures at http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/g6489-olga.html
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Denmark
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Re: [GMCnet] Custom Eleganza on eBay interesting layout [message #245739 is a reply to message #245737] |
Sun, 30 March 2014 02:32 |
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USAussie
Messages: 15912 Registered: July 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia
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Appie,
In effect that's what you get with a switch pitch transmission, it has variable torque convertor vanes.
http://www.442.com/oldsfaq/oftsp.htm
They came in the 1966 & 1967 Toronados along with the 3.21 to 1 Planetary Gear final drive.
Bdub has the manuals posted on his website if you want more info:
http://www.bdub.net/manuals/1967_Toronado_3.21_Planetary_Final_Drive.pdf = 22mb file
http://www.bdub.net/manuals/1967_Toronado_3.21_Planetary_Final_Drive.pdf = 5mb file
Regards,
Rob M.
Sydney, Australia
AUS '75 Avion - The Blue Streak TZE365V100428
USA '75 Avion - Double Trouble TZE365V100426
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6 gears ?
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Appie
eleganza 76 "Olga" ( pictures at http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/g6489-olga.html
Volvo v70
Denmark
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Re: [GMCnet] Custom Eleganza on eBay interesting layout [message #245746 is a reply to message #245739] |
Sun, 30 March 2014 07:38 |
Joe Weir
Messages: 769 Registered: February 2013 Location: Columbia, SC
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love the layout - rear twins without stretching. The angles up front seem to work as well.
The shower. Unless that floor is vinyl, or teak with a million coats of poly, I don't see how that works long term. I think the center bath concept is awesome, mind you, I just don't see how those materials work. Nevermind how the entire floor of the coach does not flood when someone takes a shower.
Maybe that is why they are selling? JK
A+ on design and execution of the rest of it though. The white colonial cabinets aren't my taste, but overall colors and fabrics look like it was professionally done. If the GMC were resurrected tommorrow, I could see this layout as a possibility.
76 Birchaven - "Wicked Mistress" - New engine, trans, alum radiator, brakes, Sully airbags, fuel lines, seats, adult beverage center... those Coachmen guys were really thinking about us second hand owners by including that beverage center...
Columbia, SC.
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Re: [GMCnet] Custom Eleganza on eBay interesting layout [message #245795 is a reply to message #245731] |
Sun, 30 March 2014 18:09 |
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Wife and I have generally preferred to mess up somebody else's shower facilities when RVing. We eventually used the shower in our boat occasionally, but preferred the roominess of the marina facilities.
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> From: mickeysss@me.com
> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 22:02:23 -0700
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> Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Custom Eleganza on eBay interesting layout
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> no shower?
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> mickey anaheim, ca 77 palm playa
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> On Mar 29, 2014, at 9:51 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
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> > Very interesting custom layout:
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> > <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=111312844404>
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> > Find the shower.
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> > This is the second time I have seen it listed and the price has dropped for this second listing. While there is a good chance the coach is worth close to the stating bid, I am not sure that the current market will justify it.
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> > I have collected pictures from the ebay listing, but am having problems posting on the photo site... might be my computer. I'll try and figure it out later.
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> > Mike Miller -- Hillsboro, OR -- on the Black list
> > (#1)'73 26' exPainted D. -- (#2)`78 23' Birchaven Rear Bath -- (#3)`77 23' Birchaven Side Bath
> > http://m000035.blogspot.com
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Re: [GMCnet] Custom Eleganza on eBay interesting layout [message #245798 is a reply to message #245795] |
Sun, 30 March 2014 18:19 |
stick miller
Messages: 1036 Registered: March 2010 Location: Americus, Georgia
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Us, too Mac. We like to stay places with nice bath facilities. I once went to a basketball game in Auburn Alabama and invited a friend along. I had the rear twin Royale, at the time. I informed him that I had parked close to the bath house and that there were 2 things I didn't want him "taking" in the coach...one was a shower.
Stick Miller
'78 Royale - "White Trash" - she left me for another man
'76 Eleganza - "Cousin Eddie" Sold '84 Bluebird Wanderlodge - "Past Tents"
Americus, GA
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Re: Custom Eleganza on eBay interesting layout [message #245805 is a reply to message #245728] |
Sun, 30 March 2014 19:51 |
skip2
Messages: 544 Registered: September 2011 Location: Winter Haven,FL (center o...
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Seen that shower layout in a class B once. Lot of thinking went in it and I think there was a pan you actually plugged into the table receptacle and it that was also the drain, square curtain rod on the ceiling like the photo had.
Skip Hartline
74 Canyon Lands, FiTech,
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Re: Custom Eleganza on eBay interesting layout [message #245969 is a reply to message #245728] |
Mon, 31 March 2014 22:00 |
Lightfoot
Messages: 22 Registered: October 2013 Location: Southeast USA
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Hey all,
After reading an eBay comment! It looks like this owner bought this coach from the late Joe Allen. Does anyone know him or the current owners. I would like to speak with them and possibly even look at the coach. I saw Florida plates on it in the pics, and am all over Florida these days. So thought I would ask.
I bet Somebody knows someone.
Thanks
Chris Lightfoot
Working with a '73 palm beach.
Mary Esther FL
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