| [GMCnet] Ok, big question [message #337549] |
Tue, 02 October 2018 11:53  |
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'Similar "SOB" experience as Sandra/Bob Price... Ours has been with a
"classic" aluminum-bodied Airstream motorhome (with a "million" rivets) on a
GM P30/"454" CID truck chassis. Despite the rear air suspension and air
bags-in-coil springs front suspension, it still rides/handles like a truck.
As part time Alaska residents, we leave it in Alaska and use it each summer
for about three months. 'Have done that for about twenty years (after twenty
years as Alaska residents). Its one advantage over a GMC is that any truck
technician can service it for things that would be inappropriate for me to
do in the private RV park we use for the summer (a Princes Cruise Lines
"wilderness" facility). When we return to "America" in September and get in
the GMC to go to the fall GMCMI convention, the contrast in luxury, ride and
handling is strikingly positive relative to the Airstream. We rent cars at
destinations so we drive at car speeds.
Reliability for both has been excellent, with "aircraft-equivalent"
maintenance (and repairs as needed) for both the GMC (25 years) and
Airstream (20 years)...
Fred
Fred Hudspeth
1978 Royale (TZE 368V101335) - Tyler, TX
1982 Airstream Excella (motorhome) - Cooper Landing, Alaska
Message: 7
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:58:09 -0500
From: Sandra Price
To: gmclist@list.gmcnet.org
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Ok, big question
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W bought our GMC at the end of January, 2005, right after Bob retired. We
drove it to AK from Texas twice--first time two months; second time five
months. Comfortable, with minor problems either time. In 2010, we drove
to the northeast US and on into the Maritimes, another five months. I
finally learned how to use the wet bath successfully. We attended almost
every GMCMI Convention over those years.
Bob was diagnosed with a serious illness
in 2013 and couldn't do the routine repairs required for the GMC, so we
bought a gasoline-powered SOB in January 2015--30' with two slides. Bob
likes the extra space with the slides, but the shower is no bigger than the
GMC. It's on a V10 Ford truck chassis, therefore, it rides like a truck
and the cockpit has about the same noise as our GMC. The GMC is a more
comfortable ride. There IS more storage space in the SOB, but either way,
you need to carefully plan for your needs.
We just got home from the GMCMI Amana Convention (left home 8-5 and got
home today). The last 3 nights we didn't put the slides out simply because
we would only be at the RV park overnight. We had about as much room
inside as we would have in our GMC. Using the automatic levelers and
slides really doesn't take much more time than just parking and getting set
up for overnight.
We'd rather be traveling in our GMC, but are glad the SOB keeps us on the
road. Also, when we have had the SOB in for repairs, they aren't concerned
about how long they keep it. Twice, I've called and picked it up before
they could finish repairs so we could take the trips we had planned.
Always tell them when we need it to make trips, but they don't do what they
have told us they would.
As others have said, it's your choice what works best for you. Whichever
way you go, don't let anything steal your joy.
Sandra Price
On Sep 29, 2018 11:30 PM, "tom geiger" wrote:
Ok, so I'm approaching retirement and am struggling on if I keep my GMC and
put more money in her to do some trips to some National Parks, or do I
sell her and get something newer with slide and more room? There are
concerns on how the GMC would be on long (month plus) trips to the west and
north. Was wondering what everyone felt on using the GMC on extended trips?
Thanks,
Tom
76 Eleganza 2
KCMO
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