Talk me out of buying an RV QUICK!

clinehall · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 3:41 pm

A couple of friends of mine want to buy an RV together as they are BIG tailgaters at ECU. Thats pretty much all they would use it for. Me on the other hand could see it being a track taj mahal (I want to be Whitney when I grow up)

1. I have seen some old piece of crap pulling a trailer with a race car, any thoughts

It is 1988 Fleetwood with 56k on it that's about all I know about it.

Jason Tower · **Joined:** Wed Jun 11, 2008 3:31 pm **Posts:** 1173

i wasn't sure what an 88 fleetwood looked like so i searched google images, shouldn't be too difficult to talk you out of it

http://www.cocgb.dircon.co.uk/%2788_Flt ... m989-L.jpg

clinehall · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:36 pm

Jason Tower wrote:

i wasn't sure what an 88 fleetwood looked like so i searched google images, shouldn't be too difficult to talk you out of it

http://www.cocgb.dircon.co.uk/%2788_Flt ... m989-L.jpg

Hey with some 22's I'm all over that.

JamesMilko · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:48 pm

Do it. I envy'd the guys with RVs pulling toys at CMP this weekend.

Gwen Habenicht · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:52 pm

JamesMilko wrote:

Do it. I envy'd the guys with RVs pulling toys at CMP this weekend.

Yeah, 'cause nothing could go wrong with a 23 year old RV that would leave you stranded on the side of the road. Like, say, on the way home from VIR.

Gwennie

JamesMilko · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 5:17 pm

How bad can it be? You got a place to sleep and eat wherever you are.

Pete Guthrie · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 5:32 pm

two words: gas mileage

George Bright · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 5:48 pm

Do like you do when you get car envy. Goto a new RV dealer and it should pass.

DickRasmussen · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 6:56 pm

Cline,

2 words to describe a 22 year old large RV which has been "sitting around" for most of its life.

Maintenance. Lots!

FYI.

Dick
Who tows his race car with a 1988 Class B Camper Van that we recently restored.

ColinOConnell · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 8:44 pm

Cline,
Get an F350 and an enclosed trailer big enough for the car plus about six feet if it's a gooseneck and twelve feet if it's a tag. I've got everything that we need for a family of three (Kevin is busy with college) to camp in the trailer: two cars, heat, A/C, three air mattresses, tables, reclining chairs, a grille, cooler (looking at a mini-fridge), a couple of ez-ups, tools, eight extra tires/wheels, spare parts/brake pads/fluids, five gas cans, 20' of indoor/outdoor carpeting (makes VIR camping pretty nice) and a boatload of other junk. 25,000# combined road weight, but I have gone a little overboard. Basically, It's homey enough that Debbie likes to come to the track with us. You don't need no stinking motorhome, you can't even get half that stuff in a roach-coach with beds.

This fits in any driveway (HOA be damned) :mrgreen:

JohnByers · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:27 pm

You can't even see the front door of the house! :lol:

<---- jealous

ColinOConnell · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:38 pm

JohnByers wrote:

You can't even see the front door of the house! :lol:

What house??

JasonWatts · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 10:51 pm

ColinOConnell wrote:

JohnByers wrote:

You can't even see the front door of the house! :lol:

What house??

The big white house. its got the door right there on the side... you guys must be blind.

You should really consider adding some windows... I thought all houses came with windows in this day and age.

steve remchak · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 11:56 pm

Gwen Baake wrote:

JamesMilko wrote:

Do it. I envy'd the guys with RVs pulling toys at CMP this weekend.

Yeah, 'cause nothing could go wrong with a 23 year old RV that would leave you stranded on the side of the road. Like, say, on the way home from VIR.

Gwennie

VIR Hell................... Nelson Ledges, PBIR. rock on Dude. i'll tow the car you just show up with the hotel........... :thumbsup:

TomFreeman · **Posted:** Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:25 am

Back away from the checkbook, Cline. Slowly, slowly... I've done plenty of research on RVs, as when I will probably buy one when I retire.

- Old RVs - run away unless you plan to restore all the vehicle mechanical bits and the "house" bits. As someone else said...vehicles that sit deteriorate just sitting.
- Lots of RVs don't tow well because of the overhang of the body over the chassis. You can fix that (somewhat) with bracing from the chassis, but that's a less than optimal situation.

I figure Donnie will show up in this thread soon, since he probably has more actual hand on experience with this stuff than most anyone.

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