Over the last three years over $10,000 in repair bills.

While exhaustion from shock from not finding a single thing wrong with this coach I sat now on the factory installed Lazy Boy Recliner, that anyone who has a Foretravel vintage or otherwise knows quite well. I must have looked shocked when Sammy then sat himself and brought out a file. A nice sized file containing every single receipt he'd ever recieved with any and all repairs he'd made or had done to the coach over the last 25 years. As he passed it to me to look through it was the receipts from the last three years that caught my eye.

Over the last three years, he had the entire engine rebuilt from scratch. An expense I am slightly familiar with as my 1982 33ft Allegro, three coaches ago, the one that burned to the ground from arson, had to have done too but at 24,000 original miles on a Chevy 454. This coach didn't have it's engine rebuilt until 150,000 miles. Go Dodge! In addition, entire steering redone, new carb, new headers, new lifters, new...well the entire engine was rebuilt as if it was a race car so that it wouldn't have a single issue climbing the 7% grades that rule the mountains here in the Denver area west of the metro area while he towed his late 90s boat of a Buick. He climbed those mountains in the last three years at no less than 55mph. Anyone who's ever had a vintage or newer gas coach even realizes that's next to impossible, normally.

In addition, all new tires, rims and wheel liners. New exhaust, brakes, all master cylinders. New fuel pumps all around, new transmission (new not rebuilt), new drivetrain as well. Good Lord, was there anything "under" this coach that hadnt' been replaced? Nope! All of it. Well over $10,000 in just three years of repair.

As if all of that wasn't enough to send me into a freak fit, the entire interior of the coach had been "remodeled" in 1985 at the Foretravel Factory in Texas. All of the window treatments, carpet, furniture, some appliances replaced with brand new in 1985 straight from Foretravel Industries. Wow! The curtains on this coach are the heavy kind, the ones that are backed with backing and not a plasic backing but the kind your grandparents had on the back of their curtains, a heavy fabric backing. Again, not even remotely damaged by sun in all these years. Something else a bit of a shock to me were the drawstrings that open and close all of the curtains. What an extra nice touch. There are sun shades too that pull down on every single window. Still there and in like brand new working condition.

He had also had the two max-air vents replaced as well as the microwave, water heater, water pump and electrical system in that time. And in the last three years the carpet again had been replaced. So recently in fact is still smelled like new carpet in there mixed with the smell of a brand new coach. How do you keep that smell of a brand new coach over 30 years? Omg! That's an accomplishment all of it's own.