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Is it sad...

that I've only owned my '89 38' ORED for a month and yet after finding this site all I can do is day dream about the day I can purchase my next FT with all the newer gadgets?  It'll run me at least 4-5 times what I paid for this one so its a day not coming soon!  :P
Benjie, Ashley, Zoey, Fallon, and Lake
Round Rock, TX
In search of our next monster...

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Reply #1 –
Quote from: Benjie Zeller –
that I've only owned my '89 38' ORED for a month and yet after finding this site all I can do is day dream about the day I can purchase my next FT with all the newer gadgets? 

Benjie,

Nah.  Steve and I are constantly talking about our next remodel/upgrade project for our coach.  Same kind of thing, just less pricey (well, maybe not when you combine them all...  ::) )  I love being inspired by all the options!

Michelle
Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It's cheaper!  - John C. Bogle

2000 U320 36' non-slide / WildEBeest Rescue
2003 U320

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Reply #2 –
I have exactly what I want and a little more than I need and no plans or yearnings for a newer coach. Getting old does funny things to you. That could never have happened ten years ago.
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Locust Grove, OK
1993 U300 SSE 40' (Restored at FOT 2009) Build 4323
720 watts Solar
6V92TA DDEC Silver Engine
2014 Subaru Outback

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Reply #3 –
Quote from: Kent Speers –
I have exactly what I want and a little more than I need and no plans or yearnings for a newer coach. Getting old does funny things to you. That could never have happened ten years ago.

With that slick paint job and 2009 restoration, who needs a newer coach!  Maybe I'll go that route.  Can I get what you had done for about $1K?  :D
Benjie, Ashley, Zoey, Fallon, and Lake
Round Rock, TX
In search of our next monster...

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Reply #4 –
No wishes for anything newer. The U300 is way more than I need to be happy camping. I would trade a handful of Allisons for one crashbox and could easily level it with 2x6s like in the old days. Have to say, sure is nice listening to the rain come down and know none is coming inside. Still feel the need to get up in the night and check for leaks. Knew it was time to retire our old Joad II when the cops came around the WalMart parking lot at night to check if we had $5 in our wallet. Plus the kids did have us drop them off a block away from a party one time. One bad exhaust manifold gasket can sure make a racket outside I guess. Now the old girl is our guest "motel" when friends come to town.
Pierce and Gaylie Stewart
'93 U300/36 WTBI
Detroit 6V-92TA Jake
1140 watts on the roof
SBFD (ret)

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 :) "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"  ;) Work on making your coach the way you want it, and up grade when you can afford it. We love what we have and really don't aspire for anything more.... The quality of your Foretravel interior was just as good the day it was made as the newer models of today.  ^.^d  With some of the new engine restrictions we may be better off then with the new "clean" diesel engines.  ::)  Please don't be sad !  :)) :)) :))
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Gerry & Brenda
CHARLOTTE HARBOR, FL
1994 Grand Villa - # 4466
U300 Unihome - 6V92 Detroit
4 speed Allison - Jake Brake

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Reply #6 –
Guess I am going to be old fashion.  But I have looked at the Grand Villas for years, and we narrowed our list of needs and wants.  The one we found, is going to be ours for a long while.  I still look at lots of ads, but find so very few worth of us wanting to change to newer, bigger, or more complex.

Dave Cobb
Buckhorn Lake Resort The Club, #6202, Kerrville TX
check the map.  I do rent it out when I am traveling!
2001, U320, 36' #5887, in Kerrville, FT Club #17006, (7/23 to present)
2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee L, Summit, white
EX: 98 U295, 36' #5219, (mid door), (4/13-10/23)
EX: 93 U225, 36' (4/11 to 4/13)

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Reply #7 –
Benji, It's just camping, enjoy and don't get stressed out about the latest and greatest others are camping in. Learn to enjoy what you have now or you never will be able to because they get flashier and bigger every year... Forget the Joneses and enjoy the rig you have........ Guess i've reached the age as well Kent.
Dub McBride 1996 270

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Reply #8 –
When we were looking to upgrade from our class C we had certain criteria in mind. When we found-then purchased our '89 GV we found that it exceeded everything we had been looking for. The comments and praises we have received from everyone that sees our GV make us extremely proud. New one? More "gadgets"? Bigger? Not for us! We think our GV
is unique. One nice thing about the older style Foretravels is that they can be identified from a long way off. The newer ones all look alike until one is close enough to see the name or logo.
Nitehawk,  Demolition Lady, & our NEW master, Zippy the speeding BB cat.
1989 Grand Villa 36' ORED
Oshkosh chassis, 8.2 DD V8
2006 Saturn Vue AWD

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Reply #9 –
Quote from: Dave Cobb –
Guess I am going to be old fashion.  But I have looked at the Grand Villas for years, and we narrowed our list of needs and wants.  The one we found, is going to be ours for a long while.  I still look at lots of ads, but find so very few worth of us wanting to change to newer, bigger, or more complex.
Yep, and with a Grand Villa, one can camp in lots of skinny places when other will have to pass on because of their slideout.
1994 U225
build #4514
 

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Reply #10 –
Like Dave Cobb I still look at advertisements of Foretravel's for sale. I get a lot of good ideas looking at the interior photos. :) Having had a MH previously with slide-outs I was worried about not having the extra space. The only time it bothers me is when I trip over one of the Border Collies. <g>
Coleen Elkins
Former 95 U240
One retired husband &
two Border Collies Isabelle and Katlyn