06-08-2021, 07:27 PM
All,
After countless searches and visits to various coaches and much back and forth with Gurus from this amazing forum (and a failed deal that set me back several months) I finally managed to buy myself a Newell!
I just made a deal for #423! Deposit check went out via Fedex this afternoon.
i will be going out to pick it up on June 24th in New Mexico.
I know it needs a bunch of work and I am ready to get in there and get to it.
This coach has had a very strange and interesting trip indeed.
I learned from the forum that it is a bit of an oddball, like me. a 1996 with IFS, ABS and a bath and a half.
From a NASCAR driver to a forum member to the cold reaches of Canada and back to the Southwest it has had both tender loving care from owners as well as some hard knocks.
I'm have a research compulsion and truly believe the "7P" rule. Proper Prior Planning Prevents pee Poor Productions. I've learned so much about these coaches from reading MANY forum posts.
I am sure I will have tons of questions to ask. be aware often i come up with crazy ideas....some work well...others? Not so much.
A little bit about me. I live in Upstate New York about 90 Miles from NYC. I'm an older gent who works (not retired, Yet!) that loves to tinker. Been an RV fan for ages and ages. I'm an avid pilot (did the commercial thing) and now fly mostly for myself. I've got a kit helicopter that I tow around with my current 3/4 scale RV. well, compared to the Newell it's more like 1/2 scale!
Mostly I avoid campgrounds, preferring to boondock with as much off-grid capacity as i can get. Yes, Solar is going on this Newell this year... maybe Lithium Phosphate batteries as well.. but the prices, they keep a dropping" So maybe later on. Sadly, this coach is missing all it's house batteries. I'm going to buy a temporary set (likely, Renogy AGM's) to get me home and through the time before the solar install.
I look forward to meeting many of you all!
As a quick aside, I am looking for the wall mounted table that goes between the recliners in the salon area where there is a love seat that is in amazing shape, but i would prefer recliners and the table for sure. Also, a Newell dinette or even just the table. At this point I have a large couch where the dinette (though this coach had a table and chairs, originally I believe) It looks as if it's a Villa that could have a motorized retractable table because of the "flap" at the base of the center section. Anyway... I have nowhere to eat nor work at the moment.
That's all for now (and it was a lot!)
Be seeing you,
Rick Miller
#423
1996, 45'+, non-slide
After countless searches and visits to various coaches and much back and forth with Gurus from this amazing forum (and a failed deal that set me back several months) I finally managed to buy myself a Newell!
I just made a deal for #423! Deposit check went out via Fedex this afternoon.
i will be going out to pick it up on June 24th in New Mexico.
I know it needs a bunch of work and I am ready to get in there and get to it.
This coach has had a very strange and interesting trip indeed.
I learned from the forum that it is a bit of an oddball, like me. a 1996 with IFS, ABS and a bath and a half.
From a NASCAR driver to a forum member to the cold reaches of Canada and back to the Southwest it has had both tender loving care from owners as well as some hard knocks.
I'm have a research compulsion and truly believe the "7P" rule. Proper Prior Planning Prevents pee Poor Productions. I've learned so much about these coaches from reading MANY forum posts.
I am sure I will have tons of questions to ask. be aware often i come up with crazy ideas....some work well...others? Not so much.
A little bit about me. I live in Upstate New York about 90 Miles from NYC. I'm an older gent who works (not retired, Yet!) that loves to tinker. Been an RV fan for ages and ages. I'm an avid pilot (did the commercial thing) and now fly mostly for myself. I've got a kit helicopter that I tow around with my current 3/4 scale RV. well, compared to the Newell it's more like 1/2 scale!
Mostly I avoid campgrounds, preferring to boondock with as much off-grid capacity as i can get. Yes, Solar is going on this Newell this year... maybe Lithium Phosphate batteries as well.. but the prices, they keep a dropping" So maybe later on. Sadly, this coach is missing all it's house batteries. I'm going to buy a temporary set (likely, Renogy AGM's) to get me home and through the time before the solar install.
I look forward to meeting many of you all!
As a quick aside, I am looking for the wall mounted table that goes between the recliners in the salon area where there is a love seat that is in amazing shape, but i would prefer recliners and the table for sure. Also, a Newell dinette or even just the table. At this point I have a large couch where the dinette (though this coach had a table and chairs, originally I believe) It looks as if it's a Villa that could have a motorized retractable table because of the "flap" at the base of the center section. Anyway... I have nowhere to eat nor work at the moment.
That's all for now (and it was a lot!)
Be seeing you,
Rick Miller
#423
1996, 45'+, non-slide