Bought a Class C in California, I live in Kansas...

Tarz483 wrote:

Awsome , How do you estimate you saved ? And how much is trip home , just curious, its totally something i would do, at 1...

Awsome , How do you estimate you saved ?
And how much is trip home , just curious, its totally something i would do, at 1 time i sold Chevrolet in California and at that Time (not sure if they still are?)
The new corvettes where $10'000 over the MSRP
And people where paying it , all they had to do was buy a plane ticket just about Anywhere out of California and saved $10 grand, i really never understood this, in my mind its fun to take a little trip and driving home in your brand new corvette sounds like fun to me, obviously if its far depending where you flew to you would have to get a motel
But still there us no way a plane ticket, gas, food, Motels.
Would have costed even half of Ten Grand.

Tarz483 wrote:

Awsome , How do you estimate you saved ? And how much is trip home , just curious, its totally something i would do, at 1...

Awsome , How do you estimate you saved ?
And how much is trip home , just curious, its totally something i would do, at 1 time i sold Chevrolet in California and at that Time (not sure if they still are?)
The new corvettes where $10'000 over the MSRP
And people where paying it , all they had to do was buy a plane ticket just about Anywhere out of California and saved $10 grand, i really never understood this, in my mind its fun to take a little trip and driving home in your brand new corvette sounds like fun to me, obviously if its far depending where you flew to you would have to get a motel
But still there us no way a plane ticket, gas, food, Motels.
Would have costed even half of Ten Grand.

SCR wrote:

Reminds me of an adventure my Dad and uncle had in 1946 . My Dad was 16 and his older brother had just got back from...

Reminds me of an adventure my Dad and uncle had in 1946 . My Dad was 16 and his older brother had just got back from service in the war. Cars were scarse on the west coast and people in CA would pay good money so my Uncle bought the car in the pic below and he and my Dad took a rode trip from Youngstown Ohio in the car below and sold it for a nice profit in Los Angeles.
His brother took the train back and offered my Dad a ticket but he decided to hitch hike back with the $1.26 or something he had in his pocket just to see if he could do it.
He was going to jump a train in Arizona before he saw some guys on a chain gang crew and some guy told him that's what will happen if they catch you. In Texas he said he went in a bar and got a beer and bowl of chili for 35 cents or something and could still remember how good it tasted 50 years later.
Lots of other really cool stories from that trip and other adventures my old man had that I heard over the years. Like hitch hiking to Indy to watch the 500 with his buddies when he was in high school. I have the Indy 500 programs he got in 46 and 47.
Anyway he passed 9 years ago and my Mom passed last year, and I was the Trustee for her Trust.
I had been going through stuff and looking for pictures my Dad said he had of the stock cars he built and raced in the early 50s. And I came across a couple stacks of pictures labeled California trip, and Indy 500 trip. He never told me he had these pictures. Still looking for the stock cars pictures.

SCR wrote:

Yeah he had some real adventures over the years.He didn't want to get stuck working in the steel Mills the rest of his life so he...

Yeah he had some real adventures over the years.He didn't want to get stuck working in the steel Mills the rest of his life so he got on the road a lot. I think that was the case with a lot of young men back then.
He had a high school friend who's family had money to send him to a prestigious University ( not sure which one). He's sitting on the bank of a river watching his friend compete in a rowing competition. Some fancy cars pulls up and a chauffeur opens the door and out steps Grace Kelly. She walks over starts talking with my Dad, asks him if he wants a cold beer. The Chauffeur opens the trunk and she's got a tub of cold beer on ice. She was there to watch a friend that was also on the team. They hung out and drank beer for a bit.
Crazy shit.

Tarz483 wrote:

Awsome , How do you estimate you saved ? And how much is trip home , just curious, its totally something i would do, at 1...

Awsome , How do you estimate you saved ?
And how much is trip home , just curious, its totally something i would do, at 1 time i sold Chevrolet in California and at that Time (not sure if they still are?)
The new corvettes where $10'000 over the MSRP
And people where paying it , all they had to do was buy a plane ticket just about Anywhere out of California and saved $10 grand, i really never understood this, in my mind its fun to take a little trip and driving home in your brand new corvette sounds like fun to me, obviously if its far depending where you flew to you would have to get a motel
But still there us no way a plane ticket, gas, food, Motels.
Would have costed even half of Ten Grand.

SCR wrote:

Reminds me of an adventure my Dad and uncle had in 1946 . My Dad was 16 and his older brother had just got back from...

Reminds me of an adventure my Dad and uncle had in 1946 . My Dad was 16 and his older brother had just got back from service in the war. Cars were scarse on the west coast and people in CA would pay good money so my Uncle bought the car in the pic below and he and my Dad took a rode trip from Youngstown Ohio in the car below and sold it for a nice profit in Los Angeles.
His brother took the train back and offered my Dad a ticket but he decided to hitch hike back with the $1.26 or something he had in his pocket just to see if he could do it.
He was going to jump a train in Arizona before he saw some guys on a chain gang crew and some guy told him that's what will happen if they catch you. In Texas he said he went in a bar and got a beer and bowl of chili for 35 cents or something and could still remember how good it tasted 50 years later.
Lots of other really cool stories from that trip and other adventures my old man had that I heard over the years. Like hitch hiking to Indy to watch the 500 with his buddies when he was in high school. I have the Indy 500 programs he got in 46 and 47.
Anyway he passed 9 years ago and my Mom passed last year, and I was the Trustee for her Trust.
I had been going through stuff and looking for pictures my Dad said he had of the stock cars he built and raced in the early 50s. And I came across a couple stacks of pictures labeled California trip, and Indy 500 trip. He never told me he had these pictures. Still looking for the stock cars pictures.

Tarz483 wrote:

Awsome , How do you estimate you saved ? And how much is trip home , just curious, its totally something i would do, at 1...

Awsome , How do you estimate you saved ?
And how much is trip home , just curious, its totally something i would do, at 1 time i sold Chevrolet in California and at that Time (not sure if they still are?)
The new corvettes where $10'000 over the MSRP
And people where paying it , all they had to do was buy a plane ticket just about Anywhere out of California and saved $10 grand, i really never understood this, in my mind its fun to take a little trip and driving home in your brand new corvette sounds like fun to me, obviously if its far depending where you flew to you would have to get a motel
But still there us no way a plane ticket, gas, food, Motels.
Would have costed even half of Ten Grand.

SCR wrote:

Reminds me of an adventure my Dad and uncle had in 1946 . My Dad was 16 and his older brother had just got back from...

Reminds me of an adventure my Dad and uncle had in 1946 . My Dad was 16 and his older brother had just got back from service in the war. Cars were scarse on the west coast and people in CA would pay good money so my Uncle bought the car in the pic below and he and my Dad took a rode trip from Youngstown Ohio in the car below and sold it for a nice profit in Los Angeles.
His brother took the train back and offered my Dad a ticket but he decided to hitch hike back with the $1.26 or something he had in his pocket just to see if he could do it.
He was going to jump a train in Arizona before he saw some guys on a chain gang crew and some guy told him that's what will happen if they catch you. In Texas he said he went in a bar and got a beer and bowl of chili for 35 cents or something and could still remember how good it tasted 50 years later.
Lots of other really cool stories from that trip and other adventures my old man had that I heard over the years. Like hitch hiking to Indy to watch the 500 with his buddies when he was in high school. I have the Indy 500 programs he got in 46 and 47.
Anyway he passed 9 years ago and my Mom passed last year, and I was the Trustee for her Trust.
I had been going through stuff and looking for pictures my Dad said he had of the stock cars he built and raced in the early 50s. And I came across a couple stacks of pictures labeled California trip, and Indy 500 trip. He never told me he had these pictures. Still looking for the stock cars pictures.

Sierra Ranger wrote:

That was like a mini Jack Kerouac novel in one Vital post.

Falcon wrote:

Does that garage lock? How many bikes do you think you can fit in there?
That's a cool solution.

Timo_2824 wrote:

Yes the garage locks, I'm betting if I really wanted to I could get 3 bikes in there, but realistically 2. That will be pushing the...

Yes the garage locks, I'm betting if I really wanted to I could get 3 bikes in there, but realistically 2. That will be pushing the weight limit, you gotta watch how much weight you load behind the rear axle on class C rv's. They tend to have a high rear weight bias unloaded, and it you get crazy they can pop wheelies on bridge transitions or dips.

When my son starts riding a full sized bike I'll either move to a trailer or a big class A with a 12ft garage.

Falcon wrote:

Does that garage lock? How many bikes do you think you can fit in there?
That's a cool solution.

Timo_2824 wrote:

Yes the garage locks, I'm betting if I really wanted to I could get 3 bikes in there, but realistically 2. That will be pushing the...

Yes the garage locks, I'm betting if I really wanted to I could get 3 bikes in there, but realistically 2. That will be pushing the weight limit, you gotta watch how much weight you load behind the rear axle on class C rv's. They tend to have a high rear weight bias unloaded, and it you get crazy they can pop wheelies on bridge transitions or dips.

When my son starts riding a full sized bike I'll either move to a trailer or a big class A with a 12ft garage.

Falcon wrote:

I like the big Super "C"s by Four Winds, but hell I'll never have that much money. [img]https://www.doityourselfrv.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/RV-MODS-fOUR-wINDS-sUPER-C-FUN-MOVER-5.jpg[/img]

I like the big Super "C"s by Four Winds, but hell I'll never have that much money.

Timo_2824 wrote:

Yes the garage locks, I'm betting if I really wanted to I could get 3 bikes in there, but realistically 2. That will be pushing the...

Yes the garage locks, I'm betting if I really wanted to I could get 3 bikes in there, but realistically 2. That will be pushing the weight limit, you gotta watch how much weight you load behind the rear axle on class C rv's. They tend to have a high rear weight bias unloaded, and it you get crazy they can pop wheelies on bridge transitions or dips.

When my son starts riding a full sized bike I'll either move to a trailer or a big class A with a 12ft garage.

Falcon wrote:

I like the big Super "C"s by Four Winds, but hell I'll never have that much money. [img]https://www.doityourselfrv.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/RV-MODS-fOUR-wINDS-sUPER-C-FUN-MOVER-5.jpg[/img]

I like the big Super "C"s by Four Winds, but hell I'll never have that much money.

ohiomotoxer wrote:

We had that exact model when I worked at HMF Racing. Used it for race support at GNCC. Total POS stay farrrr away