Re: General discussion chat It's a fwd house on wheels with an enemic v8 in it. Would be fun to take it to the desert (if I lived out there) and beat the shit out of it.
Re: General discussion chat Better idea: cut it down to a cab and frame with a sawzall first. Then take it to the desert.
Re: General discussion chat Drive it backwards, lock the steering straight, and break the rear suspension and get a friend to try to steer it in vain. It'll totally work.
Re: General discussion chat Sounds like a plan. I'd try to horribly bend the frame be repeatedly going over jumps.
Re: General discussion chat That's why those GMC motorhomes were so special...they were fwd. Do you see a foken' driveshaft? Apparently these are kinda collectable. Maybe I shouldn't run into it with the lawn mower so much.
Re: General discussion chat Because they wanted to be special. Like with the communists making a car with aluminum brakes. "The west hasn't though of this yet, we're better!". That logic.
Re: General discussion chat Because why not. Just kinda of a gimmick, really. It did allow them to lower the body down a little farther, though.
Re: General discussion chat because it's GM (don't think they do that anymore on the class C motorhome chassis though, also that rv you said your grandparents have is a class b(i think anyway, looks like one), also known as a conversion van, meaning it started out life as a normal van(most do anyway, some actually start out life as a class b motorhome), still strange to have FWD though)
Re: General discussion chat Nah it's a purpose built motorhome. Hell, it's like 23 feet long. heh, but let me tell you it is a piece of shit. Every 3 months I have to climb up on the roof to re-duct tape the holes on all the shit up there. It's got a rust line running down the side where the water flows. I went up there to clean out the luggage hauler thing and there were small fish up there, somehow. It hasn't moved since the 1st term of the Busch Administration, It sunk into the brick driveway. One day I opened the door and ants had built a colony in it. It's a piece of shit
Re: General discussion chat Why do I find the styling of that to be oddly cool-ish (mainly the weirdness)...
Re: General discussion chat Thats a really low roof then Sent from the 3rd galaxy from the talks of tapping
Re: General discussion chat The front of it is just about as high as any other motorhomes, maybe a little lower. It's a pretty big piece of machinery. @the guy that said the styling is cool-ish I kinda feel the same. They're so ugly that they've become slightly attractive.
Re: General discussion chat Must be the picture then, it looks a little low for a motorhome (in that i couldn't stand up in it) Sent from the 3rd galaxy from the talks of tapping
Re: General discussion chat It's got more than enough room to stand up in. I'll take some more pictures of it next time I'm over there to mow her grass. It's got kinda of a cool design because the cab is like 2 steps up from the rest of the cabin, so you're looking down on it if you're up in the cab. And it has no a pillar, so if you're sitting in the drivers seat you have a full 180 degree view of what's around you. It's also got a spotlight on the top that you can move around from the inside. My grandfather got it working, but that was in like 2009. He's the only one that really knows how all of the systems and everything on it work, and he's been dead for almost a year now. Fuck, there's so much I wish I woulda asked him before he died. There are too many systems on it. Like if you're trying to start an old car, you don't have to wonder if you need to turn the fucking air compressor on, or plug the damn thing in. It's got switches for fuel pumps and batteries and water heaters and acc generators and shit. Not to mention the engine compartment is a tangled mess of vacuum lines. It's got a weird attraction to it, though. It would be cool to get it running some day.
Re: General discussion chat As potato said earlier. Its front wheel drive. That then allows them to scrap the front to rear driveshaft which in turn allows the floor to be lowered. Roof looks low, but then the floor is low too, inside its probably the same overall height. This is the same reason why in europe throughout the 30's we started building front engine front drive cars or rear engine rear drive cars. Lower rooflines were desired for better aerodynamics and hence fuel economy. But people wanted to retain cabin space. Ditch the driveshaft from front to rear and you could have the floor lower (a transmission tunnel just for the shaft was also undesirable back then). The FF or RR layout was born. The beetle is a classic example of it, Adolf Hitler himself did the original sketch (its very very crude, I have a book with it in) for a car for the worker population of germany which should be cheap to buy, own and run while transporting their entire families. Someone worked out that within the given sketch when designing the full car it would be easiest to cram an air cooled flat 4 over the rear axle while keeping the floorpan low. - - - Updated - - - why does it have to be rear drive?
