06-16-2025, 01:09 PM
The candor is from being a DIY Newell owner for 20 years, seeing folks with grand ambitions of buying cheap, investing sweat equity, and realizing that they are WAY over their heads. Now they have invested more than the purchase price, and can’t give the coach away. There is a market for total resto jobs at give it away price. There is a market for well maintained older coach. There is NOT a market for a partial restoration.
None of us on this forum drank the Koolaid. We know what it takes.
That said, if an individual knows that going in, has the skill sets to do the work, and understands it’s a labor of love, THEN it is my opinion that an older Newell is the BEST bang for your buck out there.
Take a trip and inspect the one you listed. It’s an education anyone needs before spending a penny. Pictures never tell the whole story when something is for sale.
None of us on this forum drank the Koolaid. We know what it takes.
That said, if an individual knows that going in, has the skill sets to do the work, and understands it’s a labor of love, THEN it is my opinion that an older Newell is the BEST bang for your buck out there.
Take a trip and inspect the one you listed. It’s an education anyone needs before spending a penny. Pictures never tell the whole story when something is for sale.
Richard and Rhonda Entrekin
95 Newell, 390 Ex caretaker
99 Newell, 512 Ex caretaker
07 Prevost Marathon, 1025
Maverick Hybrid Toad
Inverness, FL (when we're home
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