THE FINAL AX!!
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms...8-41/story.csp
THE FINAL AX!!
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms...8-41/story.csp
Jim and Chris
2001 Featherlite Vogue XLV 2 slide with Rivets-current coach, 1999 shell
Previous 22 years,
We have owned every kind of Prevost shell but an H3-40
Yes Mark, it is very sad. We have had 2 Country Coaches: an Affinity and a bus. In the early years of 2000, we had a few nice visits at what we called Camp Country Coach, the repair facility campground on 6th street in Junction City. And at that time, we made some great life long friends.
Our Affinity was a spectacular coach, and we would still have it if we didn't have MPD.
Hopefully, the pieces can be re-assemlbed, but in this market, money will still be at issue.
Last edited by Coloradobus; 11-27-2009 at 01:18 AM.
Jim and Chris
2001 Featherlite Vogue XLV 2 slide with Rivets-current coach, 1999 shell
Previous 22 years,
We have owned every kind of Prevost shell but an H3-40
Jim and Chris, I also had an Affinity 1999 that was a real joy and I also wish I had never sold it. CC built a good machine up until the mid to late 2004 era then things seemed to go sideways with QC.
If CC could have been under the management of someone other that the Howards they may have been able to pull it off. My opinion, shared by many.
I have purchased several companies that were in Chapter 11. I have purchased equipment from companies being liquidated. I have not yet seen a distressed company whose failure could be tied to anything other than management.
I have a real dislike of company owners and managers that treat the companies like their personal toy box, looting its assets so they can live the high life while allowing the company to slip towards failure. If in fact CC is liquidated those that mismanaged the company not only screwed investors, unsecured creditors, secured creditors, their vendors, the community, the employees, and public entities such as industrial development agencies, but they have screwed their customers.
It is virtually impossible for anyone to come out of a situation like this whole.
Customers will see depreciated values, a serious loss of ability to make repairs, and all the technical documentation necessary to recreate proprietary parts scattered or resting in a landfill. Now is the time for CC owners to form an alliance and get control of the engineering and purchasing data, whether it is in the form of a conversion company buying the intellectual materials to provide continued support, or a CC owners group. Ironically, that information is going to carry the lowest value in a liquidation sale, but to the hundreds of owners who wish to maintain their coaches it will be worth its weight in gold.
Miles, Any way to obtain the engineering and purchasing data Jon speaks about ?
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