The Virtual Coach

[Just Plain Jeff]

It seems that we have to buy coaches that someone else designed and spend all our time and energies looking at this one and that one; finally making a compromise and plunking down serious Lew Bucks, keeping our fingers crossed that we got a good one.

Since there is no kidding around on POG, I say that we begin to list the stuff we would like to see put in a single package on a coach that, based on all our experience, would be the perfect coach.

Here is my first little list to kick things off:

1. I would go Series 60 now that we have one.

2. The 45 works.

3. Stainless and rivets.

4. Four roof airs with heat pumps.

5. Granite floor laid on the flex-Kevlar substrate.

OK, I'll stop there...anyone for #6?

[Joe Cannarozzi]

Currently the power plant of choice for us gravel buggies up north is the new series of cat motors with twin turbos up to and including the C-15 625hp and whill im on the subject why isint the new electronicly shifted roadranger manual transmissions the current standard.For fuel milage, preformance ,durability and reliability the 13speed roadranger with computer controled shift tower would be my choice. They have a clutch pedal that is used from adead stop then the computer takes over and shifts it like an automatic, a 13 speed automatic, but youve got the durability of one of the best heavy vehicle transes ever. If your on this web sight I,m sure most of you are capible of driving tractor trailer. Go to any KW or Peterbuilt dealers and test drive one with a C-15 and auto-shift 13

[Jerry Winchester]

A fellow O-State alum pulled in to Jackson Hole while I was there in a SOB coach with a 600 hp Cat engine. It was one bad sounding boy.

As long as we are coveting, I think we would like our next coach to be an XL2, probably a 45er. I am tore on the AC. Bunch of roof airs and it looks like a Winnebago, but they have to be cheaper and easier to service than Cruisairs. But the Cruisairs let you clean the roof line and when working are fine units.

I would also like one of those beds that Figaroa put in that H at the rally. Having the ability to bunch it up so a normal size guy can walk around the end of the bed was pretty cool. I am also a big shower guy, so that was nice, but I am glad there are no photos of Jeff and I standing in the shower at the same time.

I also covet better organization in the bays and some folks have that down. As for the exterior, I am somewhere between subtle with light bling. Even Rae laughed at Jim's comment about the truckers and the "all that money and no taste" comment. I have seen that in spades.

And I want thousands of LEDs. Just to make Jon crazy.

[Just Plain Jeff]

Jerry, there ARE fotos of you and I standing in the shower at the same time.

I am just waiting for the right moment.

[Jerry Winchester]

I thought only Libertys came with the secret shower camera?

[Just Plain Jeff]

On roof airs:

When you have four roof airs on a coach it does NOT look like a Winnebago.

It looks like tract housing.

Liberty coaches do have secret shower cameras. They are chromed, lit with LEDs, but usually don't work. The Millennium shower CAM is online 24/7, which is a test of Nelson's new TCIPC theory.

Jerry, we're on the net.

In the shower.

I went to OSU too, but we effete Eastern Liberal snobs refer to that as Ohio State University, a small but pretty good football team that also has a couple of classrooms to support the endowment, which of course, supports the football team.