450 LXi and A Little History

[randydupree]

that happened in 1990,or just before...i saw the steel on the roof,and asked
about it.ray horne told me the story! randydupree93wb
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Sounds like the mindset of Studebaker.......

Blair




At 03:44 PM 5/10/2005, you wrote:
>the construction material has nothing to do with having slides or not.the
>real problem was safety(not a problem with BB's) the powers at BB resisted
>slides because in there minds they are not safe.when BB started to use the
>bigger windows in the salon area of BB's this is how they tested the
>body,with all the sheet metal in place and the window holes cut out they
>place 3000 lbs of steel on the roof of the bird.they measured the opening
>before and after placing the weight.just placing the weight on the roof
>was not enough,they left it there for a week before they were sure that
>there would be no problems. and that was just for a window! there was no
>way that they would ever put a slide in a coach! randydupree93wb
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> Maybe Blue Bird should have change from steel body constuction to
> aluminum just like Newell then they could have had a slidout years ago
> and all the rest of the goodies that the motor home market demands.Even
> bus conversion dont have a 300 gal. fuel tank or tank like
> constuction.Had Blue Bird cut back on the heavy duty constuction back in
> the early 90s all kinds of hell would have broke out.
> Bob Loomas 1985 PT 36
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