would have to quarantine 14 days, getting to see Leighton and fish didn't look like it would happen, told my buddy Brian I fish with, he said f-ck it and bought this and said we'll drive.

Sounds reasonable.

Put some Barbara Mandrell stickers on it. lol

Chit all it needs is a stripper pole, that thing is impressive inside I'll get pics later if I'd of stayed much longer would have had to many crown and cokes to drive the 25 miles home.

Going in Style in that rig.......

Super pimpin'!

Sounds like a great trip ahead of you.

I can smell the Pimp on that one from here.

.....and bring along Willie Nelson in the lounge area

Roger;
Good evening sir, I hope all is well with you folks other than the flying issue.

Is that one of the motor homes made down in Oregon on the Prevost bus frames?

When I was in the storage business I stored a couple different models of them. Marathon was one I think perhaps?

Anyways they were extremely fancy inside for sure.

Good luck with the trip and the motor home sir.

Dwayne

Roger you're living right.

it is.

You bringin' George?

How's he going to get along without you?

Roger;
Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.

They were - if it's an older one - GM diesels which were not all that bad really, but sometimes it's better to have them worked on by a mechanic who understands GM diesels....

One of them needed the batteries replaced and they were some unique "military grade" battery unlike other motor homes and thus weren't free, but seem to last much longer than most other motor home batteries. They seem to get hot next to the engine/transmission and not last.

Saw a few customers with diesel pushers that replaced batteries regularly.

The one guy needed something or other for his rig and took it to the factory in Oregon. He said they pulled out a big fat file and therein had a sample of the carpet, the paint code, the drapes and upholstery colors - everything! He was impressed anyways as they had the build sheet and could set him up with direct replacement parts.

Thanks for the reply and safe travels Roger. Say hello to Leighton for me when you get there.

Dwayne

pays to have good friends.

this one has a detroit diesel.

my dad

Makes good sense.

Bet he'll be happy when you return......................both of them actually.

My guess is you were a good friend to him first..

Roger;
Thanks again sir.

From what I've learned the GM built Detroit diesels and Allison transmissions that Prevost used were pretty trouble free.

Like I say, up here it pays to find a mechanic who has worked on a Detroit as they're not a Cummins, Cat or Isuzu from what the mechanics I know have said.

They are supposed to be the veritable "king of the road" however when it comes to ride and handling.

Thanks, again good luck and safe travels. Good fishing too of course!

Dwayne

That looks like a fun bus - should get you to Mass in style. The Detroit is rather different - a 2 stroke setup with behavior and output that dffers from the conventional 4 strokes - and a lot of guys I have known said that, to get the best out of them, they had to drive them as if they were constantly angry with the engine. The Allison trans has been a good one for me.

Have a great trip.

2 stroke diesel!

6-71? It’s what your Cummins wanted to be when it grew up!

Fear and Loathing in Boston seems to come to mind!

You step out of that and people are going think it's a flashback to a eighties Freddy Fender tour

There's more than one way to skin a cat.

Hope his neighbors are cool otherwise the gestapo gonna pay a visit.

LOL

Roger...Leighton said you can't come but I'm allowed as NY doesn't have to quarantine....he says we will take lots of pictures so you can see what you're missing

Does that thing have seat belts in the hot tub? In many states open container laws apply to passengers so having a nip of wine in the hot tub while on the road is illegal.

Damn, I'd rather ride in style than fly on a sardine can with a little bag of pretzels.

we's already making plans for oct. fish and bird hunting, fish the cape, then new Hampshire for pheasant and grouse, ducks also.

Right... I think they are from what he's told me.

one of those laws to be ignored doubt there will much drinking, we will be taking turns driving.

CCCC;
Top of the morning to you sir, I hope the day's looking to be a good one for you folks and you're all well.

While I'm not certain of the vintage of the Prevost chassis which Roger's photo shows, the folks at Detroit Diesel quit making the fascinating/frustrating 2 strokes in '98 if I'm correct.

They were indeed, in my limited experience, easy to drive angry, but I was much, much younger then and it was a loaded grain truck with a 5 & 4 transmission which in and of itself would test the patience of a saint. Combined with the characteristics of a high revving, next to no low end torque Detroit..... well I was certainly speaking in tongues before I reached the truck's final destination...

I want to say that bus is likely the Series 60 Detroit engine which are a conventional 4 stroke diesel.

Anyways sir, for the file of information you didn't need to know and all that.

All the best to you all.

Dwayne

You're a homo.

Now that looks like it would make for a good hunting camp, Roger.

Put a cattle guard on that thing and swing through every Antifa rally on the way there!

Have a good time!

the main reason he bought it was to use in Port A, its a 45 mile trip from his house to there, he sometimes has 4-5 trips offshore back to back so instead of trailering the boat back and forth or sleeping on the boat, he'll have the bus to sleep on and haul the boat. lots of times he' been so tired that it was all he could do to keep from falling asleep hauling that boat home.

Hello Dwayne - nice to hear from you. I knew that DD had stopped making the 2-strokes a while back - and I never did any work on one. In the 70s a good neighborhood buddy had a mild dragster and I did prep and tuning tasks on it before we took it to the strip every couple of weeks. He was the chief maintenance/mechanic guy for the city fire department and they ran a bunch of DDs on the pumper and ladder trucks at the time - some folks made hard knocks on those engines, but he liked the design and praised their performance. I did get to drive a few when we went to that shop on weekends for his overtime work - unique feel to that engine - and it was fun driving the fire equipment around the block doing checks. Many years later I bought my own fire truck - bright yellow Chev C80 piumper with a 2500 gallon SS tank - but the engine was a gasser - the 478 ci GM V6. Nice to chat.

You should pull up to a few concert venues along the way.
Urban ones just to screw with people's heads..
It really does look like what rock stars used to ride around in...

Tell em its a private concert by Taylor what's her face for the Soros team....