OldCarMemories: Why GM cancelled the GMC Motorhome

[kevm14]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWdCtwJm6nA

This ought to be interesting.

Wow, evidently about 67% of these are still on the road. That is pretty incredible. It helps that there is a loyal cult following.

My parents have a 74 and it's still on the road, it goes from Ontario Canada to Key West Florida every year since they bought it in 78. 2011 they had the entire interior modernized and repainted it. Original engine and trans still in it never been out of it 177,000 miles on it turns heads every winter when it pulls up next to multi hundred thousand dollar new RV's.

Well engineered, indeed.

[kevm14]

These were not cheap. The MSRP of a base 26 footer in 1977 was $30,997.12 and that was before you really added anything that you'd want. You could easily tack on $10k worth of options. An Onan 6,000W generator alone was $2,000 ($8,321.65 today). The inflation adjusted base price is $128,973.59 and let's say a $40k example with options is inflation adjusted to $166,433.00. So this was some seriously premium shit, but again they were popular and profitable.


Ah look at this. An Onan 6,000W diesel RV generator. Guess how much?
https://www.electricgeneratorsdirect.co ... p6600.html

Yup, basically the same. How about that.

[Bob]

Here's a rough example in Maine for $5k: https://maine.craigslist.org/rvs/d/73-g ... 83386.html

[kevm14]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMYmgvNMcDY

This is cool.