| Re: Fair Warning - Price's coach in Family RVing.... [message #340288 is a reply to message #340286] |
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Matt Colie
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Registered: March 2007
Location: S.E. Michigan
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kerry pinkerton wrote on Wed, 23 January 2019 08:18This whole episode is too bad.
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Alex Ferrara told me he had looked at the steering and determined it was off. Alex told me that they were planning on bringing the coach to the Man Cave but never showed up.
As to the price of 500K I believe that is BS. I recall the Princes saying it was around 200K at Dothan. I don't even know HOW you could spend 500K in a 26' package.
The whole thing is a perfect example of people with more money than brains.
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Sad.
Kerry,
I am not certain at this point where I saw this coach, but the primary builder was there and he allowed that his shop had put 2000 Man Hours into the body work. This could very well be 200K$us alone. The rest of it, could easily roll up that much again.
I was also very impressed (Please note the I did not assign a direction there). My basic instinct (as a naval architect) that it was wrong. Just the awing housings make it look like a problem, but with the weights of all the included features, it might have been saved. But I doubted that anybody had done a weight, balance and roll-center on this.
We are very serious museum people, museums should contain items that are either very typical of the class, those that show specific developments or accomplishments or those of some historic note. This belongs on the big mistakes column in my opinion.
During the day today I am going to send to the editor and tell him he got the title wrong.
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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