Help...Us buy our first motoerhome......

[bwinter1946]

Clyde my experience is limited as I have only owned two motorhomes. My first
was a Bounder and the current coach is a BlueBird BMC. The BMC is far more
complicated than the gas Bounder was. In my opinion, the BMC is much more
comfortable and road worthy than the Bounder was.

I also looked at other buses and Newells before my purchase of the BMC. I was
not a big fan of bus conversions as each seemed unique and therefore more
difficult to troubleshoot for a shade tree mechanic like me. Also the bus
conversions I could afford had very old drive trains with 6V71s and 8V71s. The
Newells are a fine coach and I like them a lot however, they do not have a Blue
Book value and therefore are difficult to finance. That made a Newell a tough
choice for me.

I like my BMC as it is of reasonable length at 37', reasonable mileage at
7.5-8.5 MPG, good drive train 300 HP Cummins and Allison 6 speed trans, 10KVA
generator, good holding tank size, steel skin and structure, etc. No slides,
but that is fine with me.

just my $0.02.

Good luck