1991 40' WLWB

[mbulriss]

Dave,

I responded to you offline with my phone number. For the benefit of
the forum members, I will repeat some of what I mentioned to you in my
offline email, as well as other information.

If I understand your description properly, you are looking at a very
rare Bird layout. What I refer to as a "Y" shaped bathroom with two
entrances into the bedroom from either side of the vanity and sink
area, apparently exists in no more than four Birds ever built. I have
one of those layouts and we love it. Bennie Collier, former Customer
Service Guru from the factory, told me he did not think that BB ever
made more than 2. In fact, he was able to describe mine back to me
from memory! The prior owner of my coach claims to have identified
four. No one from the factory has been able to verify that for me.

We like the fact that there is total privacy in the bedroom area, even
without the need to close the pocket doors on those two side aisles.
We had a 1983 PT prior to our 91 and we had the private street side
bathroom. With the advent of the wide-body Bird, I never really cared
for the pass-thru 'garden bath' that had to be totally closed off to
use it if other people were on-board. The "Y" bathroom gives you a
private water closet (toilet), which you don't have in the pass-thru
bath. If you have guests, you don't have to worry about them needing
the bathroom in the middle of the night and disturbing you. The
additional closets behind the vanity area further muffle noise from
the front, provide lots of storage and are easier to access than the
rear hanging closet behind the bed.

If we had not found ours, a side aisle would have been a good second
choice for us.

Mike Bulriss
1991 WB40 "Texas Minivan"
San Antonio, TX




--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "George, David"
wrote:
>
> Newbie looking at a 1991 WLWB with 75,000 miles. It has the split
> bathroom, where there are small aisles on either side leading to the
> bedroom. I think I like the side aisle configuration better, but don't
> know enough about it to know why.
>
> I'm looking for advice/opinions/input on the advantages and
> disadvantages of each configuration.
>
> Which configuration came standard with the 1991??
>
> Thank you all.
>
> Dave George
>
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