| [GMCnet] ??I'd like your thoughts about a GMC I'm looking at. [message #276183] |
Sat, 18 April 2015 23:47  |
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I have a little different opinion with which not everyone will agree. When looking at restored anything - houses, buildings, cars, GMC motorhomes, etc, - I look for the very best one I can afford. The expensive things are all the things you can see and touch - in the GMC case interior and paint. The whole mechanical system - engine, transmission, final drive, brakes, steering, etc. - can be renewed to like new condition for about $20k, but you can barely touch a quality paint job for that. A quality interior with all new appliances and house utilities will run double that. So, from my POV, I will buy what I can see and redo everything I can’t see to like new condition no matter what the PO represented. Just my take. Your mileage may be different. I would never consider starting with a few thousand dollar hulk. I enjoy using the GMC far more than looking at it up on blocks beside the house. Besides, I really don’t enjoy getting up and down off of a concrete floor anymore and the cost of replacing my knees is way more than paying a qualified person to replace things on our two GMCs. I mean no disrespect to those of you who still really like to wrench, or who feel you have no alternative, but it is just no longer my thing. I used to love mechanical stuff in my air cooled Porsche days, but would no longer enjoy the 44 hours the flat rate book allows a master mechanic with all the tools and experience to rebuild a 6 cyl. air cooled Porsche engine. I do still like designing and hand crafting fine furniture, though! (grin).
Jerry
Jerry Work
The Dovetail Joint
Fine furniture designed and hand crafted in the 1907 former Masonic Temple building in historic Kerby, OR
glwork@mac.com
http://jerrywork.com
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Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 14:45:10 -0600
From: Kerry Pinkerton
To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] ??I'd like your thoughts about a GMC I'm looking
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I agree, I figure I wasted a good 6-8 grand on my coach because I paid for all the 'repairs and upgrades' only to find out later that the PO hired
idiots, fools, and/or crooks to do the work. At this point, I've personally gone through EVERY system on my coach except the maserator (which is
installed poorly). In doing so I've replaced or redone just about everything. I'd have been much better off just starting with a 4 K coach to begin
with.
The flip side of this is that without having to do all this work, I wouldn't know 10% of what I know today so perhaps it's best to just consider it as
paying for my education.
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Kerry Pinkerton
North Alabama
77 Eleganza II, 403CI, Manny Brakes, 1 ton, tranny, lots of aluminum goodies.
77 Kingsley by Buskirk. Rear twins/dry bath, EFI Caddy.
Also a 76 Eleganza to be re-bodied as an Art Deco car hauler
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Jerry & Sharon Work
78 Royale
Kerby, OR
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