Big Deal Prevost Car 08 Rally?

Well it seems that Prevost does now want people to be happy in their facilities.

The old fiberglass chair they used to have in the waiting room has been upgraded:

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No Slide Out though.

Your in like flin there Phorner, since your formal attire is socks, you and JPJ will bond well, his formal version is sandals with socks.:eek:

Now go get that bus so the abuse can start...:D

Respect - Wasn't that an Aretha Franklin song?:rolleyes:

Jon, was that dingy or dignity? And what's the difference. Anyway, I say lets all go out and buy Tux T-shirt and show up for the Prevost Ball!

We're back on the Quebec Rally 08:

UPDATE:

Thank you all for your comments. Here is what I have passed along:

We want to be open-minded, but the POG membership has some concerns:

1. It is difficult to make a commitment until we have more information about the rally itself. We'd like to see a schedule of the rally before making a commitment, either individually or as a group.

2. A price of $1500 for a rally is very high, unless there is something that is so compelling that it makes it worthwhile.

3. The rally, which is to coincide with the 400th Anniversary of the founding of Quebec, being back-to-back with the Fourth of July weekend, for US members, may create scheduling conflicts.

4. Are there other ways to provide Prevost information and fellowship instead of such a rally?

5. Some members do not wish to go to Canada for a rally.

BTW: There are some converters who are voicing exactly the same concerns to Prevost Car.

We have been told that the Committee will be addressing these concerns and 'they will get back to us.'

I'll take it as my assignment to post any tangible information as soon as we hear more.

Thanks again!

We are all likely to use any excuse to go to a rally just so we get to use our coaches. That is what this is all about. Seeing how the coaches are made is a great experience. Paying $1500 for a few meals and a factory tour does not compute.

Paying $1500 to hear a 3 day sales pitch from the company that makes the shell that we are all likely convinced is the best shell is like preaching to the choir.

The whole thing doesn't make sense because of the question relating to what you get for the money as an attendee, and conversely, what is Prevost attempting to accomplish that has not already been done? Do they expect to write orders for new shells? are they going to introduce a four slide coach with and upstairs and downstairs?

Seeing how the coaches are made is a great experience.

There are some things in life you are better off not seeing. ie Watching babies being born and coaches being made. I have experianced two plant tours of the Monaco Plant in Coburg, OR. I personally would not want one of their plastic wonders under any circumstances. Ignorance is bliss on this subject. :D Put me down for not wanting to deal with the nasty Canadian Border Gestapo. No one is allowed to take my coach apart looking for something I told them is not there. That NAFTA BS is a one way operation.
Boy aren't I in a good mood this AM.

Harry, I'm have a hard time telling your and Lew's writings apart anymore! ;)

HHH, I couldn't have said it better myself. Get A1 Jon to tell you about he and Di's experience with the Germans, - uh I mean Canadians.

On our last (and I truly mean our LAST) trip to Canada) the Canadian customs folks decided to give us closer inspection. We were pulled into the inspection area and told to get out of the coach.

Two went in, and one worked the outside. I'll save the details but after 1 hour I went in to find out what was going on and the house was a shambles. They had pulled out drawers and emptied them, the LR furniture was pulled away from the walls, cabinets had been opened and stuff removed, etc. When I got in the coach one of the two was attempting to pry a panel off. It was a panel with touch latches and to open it all you had to do was push on it and it would spring open.

These wizards caught us...they had two bottles of wine on the table and because I did not declare them (they never asked if we had any alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, arms, etc. They just sent us to inspection) we were fined about $7.00 but on the back of the receipt was a huge message stamped on it that said if we ever were caught with contraband they would seize our conveyance.

It took us 45 minutes to get things back in place enough so we could travel again.

After I cancelled almost 1000 ton of steel orders, and my suppliers cried to whatever Canadian agency handles customs I got a big apoliogy from some official with the promise to remove my name and license plate from the computer system, but I never bought steel from Canada or went back. Don't need the BS.

Jon and friends... My experience crossing into Canada almost exactly mirrors yours some years ago in our 33' winnabago . We were kept waiting over two hours while the inspectors found zip... not that we had anything to hide anyway. It seems most of our neighbors ( read that other nations ) don't care for us, so we have decided to never and I mean never go or spend money in a foreign land. Besides, there is so much of our country that still needs to be seen and so many places in need of our fuel,food,and entertainment dollars. I really don't mind the price of a rally being 1000 or even 2000. We can spend that at a weekend race just watching. As you said, a good excuse to use the bus is any excuse. sorry, no international visits for us.