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No, but can we talk about the C-20?
In reply to 914Driver: I love the eyebrows on those chivys.
In reply to IndyJoe:
That's a Travco.
Submitted for spousal approval... May need to come up with a creative solution to get it home to MN.
MacDubois wrote: Submitted for spousal approval... May need to come up with a creative solution to get it home to MN.
I strongly suggest driving it. 
It'll be fun in a terrifying kind of way. Just keep thinking about how the tow bill gets cheaper every mile. 
Oh, and that thing is awesome. If I didn't already have SanFord, I'd strongly consider it.
One more thing. If you buy it, you have to do a trip thread and a build thread. Lots of pictures and some words. This is mandatory. 
Just think about what that will do for your post count. 
I wonder how many roaches you'd find tearing the interior out of that one.
In reply to BrokenYugo:
I think it would be wise to drive it to the nearest police department - ink still wet on the bill-of-sale - and ask if they could take a drug dog through it.
1966 Dodge, huh?
That thing got a Hemi?
Most likely 413 Mopar truck motor.
That is a Travco. I believe it is the longest one, their "Dodge Mahal" model. Which is a groovy name.
Passenger front seat on Travcos is a cool little couchette that flips backwards to become half of the dinette when you're parked. Interior should be super Seventies: dark snot wood (because it snot wood, it's plastic--sorry, my version of "pleather"), random fleur de lis plastic details, shag carpet. That one appears to have been at least partially gutted.
If you buy it and plan to drive it, bring spare ballast resistors, be prepared to (repeatedly) endure the sound of cracked exhaust manifolds, and do not be overly discriminating about which lane you are in at any time.
Also, use mats between your dishes and any hard surface (including each other): that truck chassis rides so hard, the aluminum will wear off cookware. Oh, and enjoy the third-world tire shops you will be seeing with your split rims, because the ones that you won't be afraid to bring your wife to also won't want to work with them.
Still want it? Beware the "home" part of the motorhome. Wiring is likely gremlined by the same harsh ride that's eaten many a dish, as is the plumbing and especially the marine shower's now-fragile-with-age one-piece plastic floor pan.
Been there, done that, left it in a field in Nebraska. YMMV.
Margie
In reply to Marjorie Suddard:
Wow, fond memories, eh?
petegossett wrote: In reply to Marjorie Suddard: Wow, fond memories, eh?
When you leave something in a field in Nebraska that really says something.
It could have actually been to Woodstock...
spitfirebill wrote:petegossett wrote: In reply to Marjorie Suddard: Wow, fond memories, eh?When you leave something in a field in Nebraska that you have spent thousands of hours and dollars that you couldn't afford, that really says something.
FTFY. This motorhome is responsible for the "Tim running down the highway in the middle of the night pursued by coyotes" story I mentioned in my podcast. As well as many other horror tales. Run, run, run.
Margie
A humorous and glowing review.
Should that not be enough to keep you away, I'm about an hour away from the RV and we have others on the board here who are much closer.
Margie
You do know the more you diss it, the more we will want it. Its like the bad girl/bad boy syndrome.
Then buy an Alfa. At least you'll get kissed before you get berkeleyed.
Margie
Marjorie Suddard wrote: Then buy an Alfa. At least you'll get kissed before you get berkeleyed. Margie
Hm. Makes we want to get it to tow our Alfa with. Perfect. 
What I was actually going to post- every once in a while, is those Tiny Home shows- most of which are just building a travel trailer that looks like a house (and tries to weigh as much).
If one would start with this, gut it, and start over- I bet it would be better than most on that show. The drawback it that it would look like a vehicle more than a house.
No, seriously no. That chassis is a nightmare. Otherwise I would still have a very awesome Grumman motorhome.
Margie
In reply to Marjorie Suddard:
But, but... it's only $500?
In reply to Ian F:
I think you can get the clap for a lot less, and be happier for it. ;)
Ian F wrote: In reply to Marjorie Suddard: But, but... it's only $500?
We are finding via someone else's hard way that there's a reason it's so cheap.
Unless someone want to repeat the path of the Suddards. Would be fun to read, again. Names change not to protect the innocent, but to show there are more than one, well, set of optimistic couples out there.
Feel free to replace optimistic with moronic.
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