Unsubbing...nothing personal, found a different type of rig...

[Jim March]

Folks, it's been fun but I've found a different type of rig...a one-off
but professionally made "truck conversion" dated 1988, in excellent
shape complete with garage area in back for a bike.

I'll leave you with this thought: owners of classic Wanderlodges, bus
conversion people and the folks with conversions of industrial truck
frames/cabs are all barking up the same tree: rebellion against the
mass-market BS "RV Industry" that has now barely gotten out of the
"stick and staple era" (with some holdouts of course) but still isn't
doing true "industrial grade" underpinnings until you get into the $300k
range...and even THEN there are some bad news critters out there. ALL
of these "rebels" are getting tough and mechanically simple critters
that will outlast any "Winnabago" or similar mindless crap.

Wanderlodges (esp. FCs but all the pre-slideout variants) have a lot in
common with commercial trucks and that's not meant as a slam on either!

I'll hang out long enough to see if anybody comments on this.

Jim March
'88 32ft one-off "Class C" on a Ford F450 chassis, steel framed and
aluminum skinned, one of 50 made by "Hansen Haulers" and a sort of
"early ancestor" of the modern Showhauler/Renegade/Haulmark/etc "truck
conversions" now grown clear to Class 8 "semi tractor" platforms. Mine
won't have the towing capacity of anything like THAT but it's easy to
work on, gets down the road fine and is as tough as anything out there
under 20,000lbs...and it's close to dead cherry for an '88.