My advice on if to buy a Foretravel at a low price, or buy an rv someone has already done most of the work, buy the higher priced one and go have fun. This may be one of my final posts, due to a change in plans of where to live. See my listing today of our rv for sale now in our Forum Classified section or check it out on Ebay. Thank you to all that have helped me since the begining of joining this priceless, valuable forum. Please let any friends looking for a Foretravel of my listing on here and eBay.
Hi Jack,
Wishing you the best on your new journeys.
Jack,
Great looking coach, good luck on your move, keep us updated and please stay involved on the forum. We hate to lose active members and valuable knowledge.
Justin
Buy the higher priced unit that has been refurbished and updated, it would be less expensive: we bought low and are now high, we would have had more coach for the same money, possibly not the interior color of choice but more bang for the buck and way less sweat equity!
One of the few Fotetravels of that vintage without window awnings. Makes for a clean look. I wonder if Extreme removed them when they did the full body paint or from factory without.
Always enjoyed your posts. Best of luck in your new direction!
Buy cheap only if you have the talent to fix and have a realistic view of the costs. Updated coach may not cost that much more. Coach that has spent it's life garaged and not driven on treated roads is worth quite a bit more. Coach with corrosion/rust is going to give lots of trouble down the road and be harder to replace rusted in place components.
Pierce
2nd the rust and corrosion thing. We watch the Bus Grease Monkey you tube channel and some of the complete RUST buckets that he works on is shocking. A little scary that those things are driving down the same roads as me.
Your coach stands out Jack. Best wishes for what comes next for you.
Happy trails Jack. Nice coach!
Wishing you the best Jack and please keep in touch! Your coach looks great and you should have no problem selling it!
IMO, the key to "buy low" is if you have the skill set and inclination to do the work yourself, you can put one of those "neglected" coaches on the list.
If you are going to pay retail for work to be performed, absolutely, go with a "ready to go" coach.
Only exception would be if you absolutely hate some important/costly aspects of the coach (have to replace all interior fabrics because they are paisley velvet, the side of the coach has a 7' picture of their horse on it, etc).