Carbon Fiber Steering Wheels?

[BTCat]

I worked on a very expensive RV today. A Country Coach on a Prevost chassis, decked out to the extreme. Over 1 million for this thing. I can't believe people pay that for something with 8 wheels.

Anyway, this thing has marble throughout, mirrored celling and a Carbon Fiber steering wheel. Also, it has carbon fiber hand rails and a few other CF accent pieces.

I have never notices so much CF being used before. Maybe I just wasn't that observant before getting into the heli world.

[fergie]

well being over a million$ they have to account for it somehow. got any pics of this thing? i'd like to see an over a million$ coach.
beings how i used to be in the rv business.just curious.
BTW what did you do to it?

[BTCat]

Apr 15, 2009 17:32:57 GMT -6 fergie said:

well being over a million$ they have to account for it somehow. got any pics of this thing? i'd like to see an over a million$ coach.
beings how i used to be in the rv business.just curious.
BTW what did you do to it?

I'll try to get some pics. We get celeb coaches in all the time. This is a private owner. Too much disposable income.

I usually do transmission electronics work. I'm doing the grunt work on this one because we are slow. I'm pulling the transmission out of it.

[fergie]

man i wish i had that kind of disposable income. man pulling a tranny on one of those sounds like work to me ;D. man bt, good luck w/that, i feel for ya

[Solitaire]

Hey Ferg

I bet you did some time with Fleetwood in either Lagrand or Pendleton. How close am I?

[fergie]

pretty dang close SOL, i was in LaGrande ;D. kind of missin it these days. they were really good to me.

[Solitaire]

The Terry plant?
They be all gone now.

[fergie]

ya SOL, they cut LaGrande,pendelton,and the one in OHIO. they even cut a bunch before they got to us even

[fergie]

but w/respect to btcat, and you, i really don't want to turn this tread into my problems. i'm just really curious about this million+$ coach. ohhh yeah

[Solitaire]

Yep, sorry BT.
Hijacked again

The thing is with those big coaches, the owners don't really camp in 'em. More for show than anything.

[fergie]

i agree Sol,keeping up with The Joneses, ya no what i mean.
and i meant no offense by my last post Sol, K ;D

[BTCat]

Apr 15, 2009 19:53:51 GMT -6 Solitaire said:

Yep, sorry BT.
Hijacked again

The thing is with those big coaches, the owners don't really camp in 'em. More for show than anything.

This is a bar, Sol. Anything goes. Not a hi jack.

Yes, I have talked to some of the owners and some of the drivers. Some of the people sell their houses and live in the coach traveling the country. Some let it sit in storage for 11 months out of the year and go on one road trip occasionally. Then there are the ones who actually hire drivers to drive their coaches across the country, set it up for them in the RV park of choice (High end RV parks, the likes of which most of us will never get in the gate of). Then the owner FLYS in and stays in his coach. Go figure.

I think the price tag is really ridicoulous, but there are a lot of them out there. A lot of them look pretty equal on the outside, but the bling on the inside will make the differance between a 600K and a 1.5 mil coach.

BTW, pulling the trans out isn't too bad. It is relatively brainless compared to other problems. So I can flex my muscles and curse instead of straining my eyes and brain trying to figure out wire numbers and what electrons are doing in their spare time Dam homotrons always going around blowing fuses aren't nearly as troublesome as the differant systems using the data link as their own personal gossip circle ;D;D

[mightyxxwhitey]

Apr 15, 2009 17:18:49 GMT -6 BTCat said:

I worked on a very expensive RV today. A Country Coach on a Prevost chassis, decked out to the extreme. Over 1 million for this thing. I can't believe people pay that for something with 8 wheels.

Anyway, this thing has marble throughout, mirrored celling and a Carbon Fiber steering wheel. Also, it has carbon fiber hand rails and a few other CF accent pieces.

I have never notices so much CF being used before. Maybe I just wasn't that observant before getting into the heli world.

Carbon fiber accents have been around the auto industry for a few years. It got really popular with the tuner car craze. You can even get carbon fiber in motorcycle racing gear.

[BTCat]

Apr 16, 2009 6:29:23 GMT -6 mightyxxwhitey said:

Apr 15, 2009 17:18:49 GMT -6 BTCat said:

I worked on a very expensive RV today. A Country Coach on a Prevost chassis, decked out to the extreme. Over 1 million for this thing. I can't believe people pay that for something with 8 wheels.

Anyway, this thing has marble throughout, mirrored celling and a Carbon Fiber steering wheel. Also, it has carbon fiber hand rails and a few other CF accent pieces.

I have never notices so much CF being used before. Maybe I just wasn't that observant before getting into the heli world.

Carbon fiber accents have been around the auto industry for a few years. It got really popular with the tuner car craze. You can even get carbon fiber in motorcycle racing gear.

Until I got into this hobby, I probably would not have distinguished CF accents from fiberglass. Looks nice, though.

[BTCat]

Okay, here we go. This is what a million plus will buy you. This is one of the nicer ones I have seen in a while. Pardon the glare. Too much chrome ;D



It has a pop out gas grill and a pop out coffee bar with fridge:




The living room is a slide out that expands I am guessing about 5 or 6 feet out. The celling has a huge oblong mirror. It has tile flooring, a SS fridge with ice and water in the door. 3 HD televisions hooked to live satellite tracking for on the road watching. It also has a slide out in the bedroom which pushes the bed all the way out and opens up the floor area. And, of course, the CF stuff. Very nice, but I have better places to drop that kind of money.