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Mon, 23 May 2016 05:14  |
Handyman
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Hello to you all,
A short introduction of my person, and why I love it reading and looking into this forum.
My name is Daniel, and I live in the Netherlands, so I am Dutch, build: 1952, and a retired Fysical Therapist. I still know like yesterday the first time I layed eyes on a new GMC in 1975, as it was on sale, for the first time here nearby .... WHOWwwww ... and I still have that same WHOWwww feeling ever since.
But things go how they go, and since they had to be imported, the extra taxes and so on, we simply couldn't affort one, NO WAY ...
Starting a career, not so much money, and a little caravan was all what was possible after a while ... 
But the Motorhome-virus struck me and as time went by a little "Bergland C-Class Motorhome" build on a cuttaway chassis of Peugeot, after 11 years a Buerstner, a french build Pilote, now a Hymer let's us drive all over Europe (the last three, all B-Class Types)
In 2014 we made our first trip to the US and rented a Road Bear C-Class MH for a month, we loved the journey to the West Coast, and back at home, did within a few months book our next journey, 2015, bringing a factory-new Cruise America MH from Chicago to SF. Route 66, Nat. Parks Las Vegas, Death Valley, Reno, Sacramento and so to SF.
And had I know that Applied was so nearby the drop-off station of Cruise America in the SF Area, I would had visited it !! Now I know that .... #@#$%$$#* Missed chance!
But since last year slowly the GMC-virus came back like an (good)illness and getting under my skin, so I looked and searched the web, and fell of my chair, what a wunderfull and astonishing community you have, helping and advising each other.
I am enjoying reading about and looking at all those pictures, youtube-videos etc.
And since we are, again visiting, the US and Canada, this year, now in june, making a 4 week trip from Calgary to Calgary, going to Banff, Jasper, Vancouver, Seattle, Spokane, Grand teton, Yellowstone and so back to Calgary, I hope to see some of the Great Motorhome Coaches, we all call GMC !!
Perhaps there is even some place on the trip, were you could point us at a GMC-to-Musthave-Seen ...
Our plans, like friends of us doing right now, is bringing our MH to the US and Canada and travel with it for half a year there, or even buying a GMC, letting it in the US or Canada, in storage and using it for the months we can come and travel, your wonderfull countries. The way I did read some members here do it also ?
But for now I am already exited and glad we can, again, hopefully make a nice trip.
Thanks to you all for keeping up the GMCMH-Flag so high.
Bye, Daniel
Daniel Jacobs, NL-USA 1977 GMC Eleganza II, Rebuild 455 (2019) 3.55 FD. FiTech and (Modified) FCC, Electric Pump, insulated GasTanks, 100A Alternator, APC, McDash, Schräder Valves + extern Fills, Ceramic Film, TPMS, FlexSteel Seats
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| Re: [GMCnet] Introduction [message #301007 is a reply to message #301006] |
Mon, 23 May 2016 05:26  |
Olly Schmidt
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Hello Daniel,
welcome to the list.
I am one of the Europeans with a GMC in storage in the US. Definitely a
good way of doing things, and preferable over shipping a European
vehicle back and fourth imho.
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Peer Oliver Schmidt
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| Re: [GMCnet] Introduction [message #301009 is a reply to message #301007] |
Mon, 23 May 2016 05:41 |
Handyman
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Hello Peer,
Thanks for the warm welcome!
Since we are the ones up so early in the morning .... or as our European-Time now is already 12.35 PM ... we can respond immideatly
I could say: "Gutentag", since my German is not so bad at all, but as a guest here, english it has to be.
A direct question, as I may, did you license the GMC through a Limited Firm or to your own name?
And as you point out, importing, the shipping, the TÜV/RDW checkups, bringing in parts and the repairs, makes the coists much more over here then when one keeps the MH in its homeland, I persume.
Bye, Daniel
Daniel Jacobs, NL-USA 1977 GMC Eleganza II, Rebuild 455 (2019) 3.55 FD. FiTech and (Modified) FCC, Electric Pump, insulated GasTanks, 100A Alternator, APC, McDash, Schräder Valves + extern Fills, Ceramic Film, TPMS, FlexSteel Seats
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| Re: [GMCnet] Introduction [message #301013 is a reply to message #301009] |
Mon, 23 May 2016 06:54 |
Olly Schmidt
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Daniel,
it is registered to my name at a friends address. Works just fine. The
only thing I had to bring was proof of address, which consisted of a
bank account statement to my name at the address.
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| Re: [GMCnet] Introduction [message #301014 is a reply to message #301011] |
Mon, 23 May 2016 07:04 |
tphipps
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Welcome to the GMC group. As nice and helpful as a group can be. If you do bring your coach to the U.S. and intend to tour the Southern States, please be sure that it has A/C. Sad to say, we came across a German couple that were near New Orleans, in July, without A/C. They were miserable.
I think if you print the Black List, you should find a GMC owner somewhere on your planned trip.
Tom, MS II
2012 Phoenix Cruiser model 2552
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| Re: Introduction [message #301015 is a reply to message #301006] |
Mon, 23 May 2016 07:31 |
Handyman
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Thanks, again for the warm welcome, Matt, Peer and Tom,
Also for the usefull info, I appreciate it.
And yes our MH has a front AC, but I would absolutly put a extra Coach AC on it.
As we already visited, the various west states, and got the final hit in Death Valley, last year n the end of mai, not even quite as hot as it can get, then, we even loved the very basic AC on the rental RV ....
But buying a GMC and leaving it wait for us, as we come for trips, is also something we are thinking of ...
Bye, Daniel
Daniel Jacobs, NL-USA 1977 GMC Eleganza II, Rebuild 455 (2019) 3.55 FD. FiTech and (Modified) FCC, Electric Pump, insulated GasTanks, 100A Alternator, APC, McDash, Schräder Valves + extern Fills, Ceramic Film, TPMS, FlexSteel Seats
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| Re: [GMCnet] Introduction [message #301017 is a reply to message #301015] |
Mon, 23 May 2016 07:35 |
Olly Schmidt
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Daniel,
> [..]But buying a GMC and leaving it wait for us, as we come for trips, is also something we are thinking of [..]
If you do get one, make sure you leave it with someone that drives the
coach monthly so it doesn't catch the "sitting around breaking down"
syndrome.
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Peer Oliver Schmidt
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