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[robertglines1]

More info please. Helps us answer your questions better.  If you don't have bus yet just say so.  If your honest with us it's easier for us to trust you.    Two way street here!   Bob

[Lonnie time to go]

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[Runcutter]

And another bump.  First of all, welcome -- this board has been a great source of help, and it's a bunch of good people.  

Folks, this is important.  You may be around the corner from one of us, for quick help.  Alternately, if you're looking for a part, we can tell you to drive a few miles, rather than ship something across the country, or across country borders.  If you don't have a coach, and are looking, your location may let one of us invite you over to see ours, possibly helping you with your decision down the road.

Also, if you're asking for guidance on something specific to your coach, make the coach type prominent in your post (or, at least, have it as part of your signature).  If you put it in the title of your post, that might even attract more attention from other owners of your type.  Bottom line, the easier it is to help you, the more help you'll probably get.

Last, give us a name to respond to.  My brain responds better to "John, Bill, Mike, Mary" than to "NU76", or similar screen names (Northeastern University, class of 1976 for those who want to know how I came up with that one).  My screen name is "Runcutter", because that's how I make my living, but I sign my posts "Arthur."

Arthur

[JackConrad]

     I agree. I have always listed my name, location, and make & model of our coach. To the best of my knowledge, I have never received any spam or had any other problems because of this.  Jack

[afm_man]

Here you go:

Been reading this forum for quite some time.  Joined only a few weeks ago to ask a question.  People have been great and Bob has responded via PM. 

We don't have a coach yet but have been looking for nearly 2 years.  I am hoping to get one that sleeps 6 meaning I likely need bunks (although I have seen a random few that have one of the bays converted for sleeping and a hatch to the main cabin).  We live in a remote area and want to be able to take the family out to the the country.

I would like to think that I am mechanically inclined (restored many of cars and remodelled our current house) but I just don't think I would be able to convert a coach myself at this time.  Therefore, we are looking for a converted coach and I think I would do fine with maintenance and minor modifications.  Does 25-30K seems a reasonable place to start for an older coach?

Still learning about all the different engines and types of coaches - love the Prevost but thinking we will wind up with an MCI.  Never realized that there were so many different things to consider but reading these boards has been very helpful.  Ask me anything else you want to know and I'll try to answer.

To answer the question:  I am in Lubbock, TX.  To Arthur, we do loads of work with Northeastern University and I find myself in Boston a couple times a year.

Brandon

[Runcutter]

Brandon, my first reaction, after watching many postings, is that you could get a heck of a lot for that kind of money, these days and in this economy.  That can be read a couple of ways -- you have the money to get something quite good, or the seller might see dollar signs.  Do a lot of research, and have any candidate bus fully checked out by someone with a lot of knowledge, about buses and/or about conversions.  If you can, do as much research into the seller as you do the bus.

There was a posting here, or on the other board recently, about someone who runs a website and posts buses for sale-- buses he doesn't have.  High prices.  If there's someone (think about what P.T. Barnum says is born every minute), interested, he tries to buy the coach at the real seller's price, then turn around and sell it to his customer -- taking a substantial markup.  Another story was a guy that bought a 4106 just northeast of Dallas, from a dealer, and didn't know that the cooling system had been changed to something that wouldn't work.  He limped it across Texas, and, at last report, abandoned the bus in El Paso - short of his goal of Oregon.  I don't know if that story ever had an ending.

With my mother-in-law still in north central Massachusetts, we're up there more times a year than I care to think about.  I haven't been in downtown Boston in years.  The last time was driving up from Connecticut, to meet my wife who was flying in.  I came in Huntington Avenue, and it took me twice the time to drive across Boston, than it used to take to walk that distance.  I only got across the gridlock at Essex St. and the Surface Artery by running the red light, like everyone in front of me.  

Arthur