Posts: 4
Threads: 2
Joined: Jun 2025
Posts: 5,908
Threads: 266
Joined: Jul 2012
Jim and Melonie,
Welcome to the gang. You can help us help you if we know more about you. For example, your planned use of the coach. Then the more details we know about your previous RV ownership, your hands knowledge of electricity, hydraulics, general repair, and diesels will help us tune our answers to your skill level.
And one more thing. Look for the block Enhanced by Google. Use that for your search engine. Then use the word AND in all caps between the search terms. Let me illustrate. If you type 8v92 radiator in the search engine you will get every thread with 8v92 and every thread with radiator in it. But if you type 8v92 AND radiator into the search engine, you are far more likely to get threads about 8v92 radiators at the top of the list.
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
)
Posts: 1,560
Threads: 77
Joined: Sep 2022
Welcome to the group you certainly bought a beautiful coach!
1999 45' #504 "Magnolia"
Gravette, Arkansas
1996 40 XL Prevost Marathon
Posts: 32
Threads: 11
Joined: Jun 2025
Congratulations on your purchase. It's a beautiful coach. When I found our coach #365 and my background in solar I researched adding solar and I immediately found Simon's, now your coach. It was out of our price range, but it would have been the top of my list.... you have a great restored vintage but modernized coach. We are fulltime and as such when I saw your posts on Facebook, i wanted to message you to say, hopefully, we'd see you down the road at one of the campgrounds we migrate to. This year will be in colorado in october, in arizona in november, texas and then florida for the rest of the winter.... So we'd love to see your show and the coach. If you're in any of those states, don't hesitate to reach out, look forward to connecting you're online or in person.
Ron Davis
1994 Newell #365 (New Owner July 2025)
1996 Beaver Patriot (frame damaged)
1994 Tioga Class C (previous caretaker)
My teen son and I travel the U.S. fulltime for the last 5 years.
Summer in the Midwest, Winter in the South.
Intentionally Independent and helping others do the same.
Posts: 148
Threads: 11
Joined: Jul 2022
Congratulations and welcome aboard! You have an incredibly loved and cared for machine, as you already know. This is an amazing group!
Arch & Mary Jones
1997 Newell #463
Williamsburg, VA or Gettysburg, PA
(depending on what day it is)
We are blessed to have the opportunity to be the new caretakers of BusNit’s (Simon) 1993 fully restored M 450 #312! We are spending Labor Day weekend at an RV Park 5 mins from our home to give us a chance to get acquainted! This is an amazing coach, and we will be forever grateful for the outstanding talent, blood, sweat and tears that Simon and Marie poured into this beautiful home on the road. We are entertainers (comedy ventriloquist) and will be touring and performing at RV Resorts across the country beginning in December. Thanks Simon and Marie, and we look forward to being regulars here on the forum!
