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Posted By: 79powerwagon on 08/05/12 06:33pm

Just saw a Craigslist ad posted over at Moparts.com for a Travco that is supposedly roadworthy. Um, it's pretty rough and awfully mildewy on the inside! Stranger still is all the gel-coat falling off of it in sheets!

How long has it been sitting? [emoticon]

Yes, I'm always checking to see what is out there, and of course, it's gotta be a Dodge! Maybe TransVan this time...

She ain't purdy, but at least she's slow!

Posted By: whiteknight001 on 08/06/12 07:29pm

Trish Davis wrote:

Good you'll be back around. I've been mostly lurking, too.

Real good on grandchildren. Spoil them and send them home.
No, I'm not. I think my son is afraid of my all-pervasive, corrupting powers.
He always was a smart boy :0)

Hello everyone.

It's great to do some reading, and catching up. It's been too long.
When I went to reply to this, I went momentarily senile, and wound up
at the first page of this thread. 08/15/04, at 3:22 am. Somewhere in
Oklahoma (where the WILDFIRES come SWEEPING down the plain...).

This thread will be EIGHT YEARS OLD this August. 566 pages. I am way beyond "nonplussed", and somewhere outside dumbfounded.

Thank all of you. And may God bless. This is nothing short of amazing.
This single thread is referred to across Cyberspace as a REFERENCE.
I NEVER thought that would happen.

Trish and Leeann, I OWE you both a debt of gratitude for "Den Mothering" this whole happy conflagration, and keeping us all on
the straight and narrow. I had to cackle when you (Trish) referred
to Leeann for "electrical gremlins" and you saying that you cry over
them. And a "laundry list" of all the things to check out, and go through in an older RV. We all could teach an RV "Masters Degree"
here, with all that is posted here.

I hope this just keeps spiraling off into Cyberspace, kinda like the illustration on the back of the Kansas album "Leftoverture"- with the "musical score" unfolding endlessly from the end of the composer's desk and off into the cosmos...

Pax vobiscum,

Mark "whiteknight001"

that old screwball driving the very large vehicle in the lane next to you...

1972 Mobile Traveler 20' Dodge B300 Class C
"The Kobayashi Maru" Trans- Prarie Land Craft
"Requiescat in pace et in amore..."

Posted By: Trish Davis on 08/07/12 07:57am

Mark!

How good to hear from you!

Hey, I didn't even get started on the vent /marker light / roof seam leaks.
Or the bad grounds.
Or all the other "stuff" that most of us have dealt with.

You're in OK? I've got a buddy in McComb County, haven't heard from him months.
Whereabouts are you?

Eric, if you're seriously wanting a Travco, speak to me.

Posted By: Jer&Ger on 08/07/12 11:50am

Nice to hear your still out there, Mark [emoticon]

. I bet you never expected to see this many posts when you asked the question.

Just goes to show there's a need for Soooo many things that people don't realize are needed til they ask [emoticon]

Jerry & Gerry, our pets (dogs), Byron, Coco
1976 Monaco, 440 ci. Dodge Sportsman chassis

Posted By: whiteknight001 on 08/10/12 09:24am

Trish Davis wrote:

Mark!

How good to hear from you!

You're in OK? I've got a buddy in McComb County, haven't heard from him months.
Whereabouts are you?

Hey Trish!

Great to hear from you too! I'm in Okmulgee County, in the northern part. About forty miles south of Tulsa off Hwy 75 (Indian Nations Turnpike). McComb is a county I haven't heard of- 'course that don't mean there isn't. There's a LOT of stuff in OK that shouldn't be or isn't or ain't. There's McCurtain, McIntosh and McClain counties, though... And we lived in Pottawattomie county for a while...

Gotta be Indian or know one to pronounce all this stuff, I guess...

Mark

Posted By: whiteknight001 on 08/10/12 09:31am

Jer&Ger wrote:

Nice to hear your still out there, Mark [emoticon]

. I bet you never expected to see this many posts when you asked the question.

Jer&Ger,

This thread never ceases to amaze me. I remember someone once called it a "compendium". Heck, I had to look that word up. I thought that was an indigenous person, a "native". There was a time that I thought a "sacrilege" was a Bible in a brown paper bag.

Most of my life, I've had folks tell me: "Mark, you're a nice guy, but please... strike a HAPPY MEDIUM" because I'm as moody and passionate as a Russian. For the longest time I actually thought "strike a happy medium" meant to: "punch a laughing paychic".

Go figure... It's great to be back with y'all. Padded cells get real
lonely, y'know. And I never got a good fitting strait jacket. hee hee.
And wonderful to hear from you!

Mark

Posted By: Trish Davis on 08/10/12 10:52am

Duh.
It's McCurtain, down in the SE corner.
I bought the Travco from a woman in Macomb, MI.

Middle age is not being kind to me.
Although if this is middle age, does that mean I'm going to live to 104?

It's more hot & humid -and miserable-- than usual in the Ohio Valley.
Yankee like me would melt in OK.

whiteknight001 wrote:

Posted By: Trish Davis on 08/14/12 06:42am

Yeah, well, you started it.

So I need to add to the compendium. Which means I need advice.
On the other hand, I have pictures.

So. My son's '01 PT Cruiser is sort of mine by default. It's a cute little roller skate but absolutely comfortable for my poor, benighted (nothing to do with you, Mark) back.

So then. The day after I sold my Exploder, I bought a new hatch and a new left rr door for Petey. A doe, a deer, a female deer tagged the door and an idiot on the Rte 22 Parkway inbound did for the hatch and a light.

Actually, they weren't new, I found a junkyard with a silver PT for parts. Got prices and arrived with my cane --and the walker all folded up in the back in case this guy decided he was not going to change my hatch. And door.
What? He was gonna turn away a middle-aged woman walking with a cane.

Back in Jan '09, I bought my son low profile tires on hellacool wheels completely unbeknowst to him. He was so happy.

But I hate those wheels. I want grown-up wheels.
I really want 15" steelies with baby moons and beauty rings.

Then I saw this: http://www.ptcruiserlinks.com/forum/whee........ires-suspension/44185-1950s-hubcaps.html
Then I found these: EWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649" >http://www.ebay.com/itm/400311562367?ssP........icon]">EWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 before I saw these: EWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649" >http://www.ebay.com/itm/150641934789?ssP........icon]">EWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 but I think I'm going to have to settle for these ones: EWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649" >http://www.ebay.com/itm/110645725450?ssP........icon]">EWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649.

Petey is silver and I have not yet painted the Travco. I have decided firmly against flat black, even though it's my favorite vehicle color.
Leeann voted for silver, but I don't want my Travco to look like an Airstream.
However, if the Travco was towing Petey, now how cool is that.

So.
How do I tow Petey? He's frt-whl, auto.
Yeah, yeah, I've seen a thousand tow bars, but which ones will fit the Travco's frame?
The Travco's frame has had enough diddling; simpler is better.

And, yes, I bought another complete Travco, an absolute wreck of a thing to graft its azz-end onto mine. Which is going to be the mother of all projects.

Leeann, Eric, Griff, eyeteeth, Mark, speak to me, please.
And realize this all because a deer ran into a door.

whiteknight001 wrote:

This thread never ceases to amaze me; someone once called it a "compendium".

Most of my life, I've had folks tell me: "Mark, you're a nice guy, but please... strike a HAPPY MEDIUM" because I'm as moody and passionate as a Russian.

Go figure... It's great to be back with y'all.
And wonderful to hear from you!

Mark

Petey, Margaret and Me: [image]

Posted By: Leeann on 08/14/12 07:03pm

Silver. Still my vote.

Another Travco? Graft the butt end onto yours? Bob think you're nuts?

Tow the PT. Hmmm. I'm guessing a Blue Ox baseplate. I haven't looked into that 'cause we tow raceboats...

'73 Concord 20' Class A w/Dodge 440 - see profile for photo

Posted By: Trish Davis on 08/15/12 05:57am

it will be silver.
Scrub (again) with bleach, sand, roll and tip with Rust-Oleum.
But I'm keeping my bottom stripe flat black, bumpers, too.

Petey is auto, which sets up a whole bunch of towing difficulties.
The lighter any hitch or base plate is, the better. I intend to keep the frame's 2' extension for The Big Box but use that space to tote whatever.

Bob is out of the picture. He doesn't know anything about fiberglass work, anyhow.
The new/old Travco is inside at the junkyard and the azz-end graft will take place there. It doesn't run (413 block minus heads, rad, pulleys) and there's very little left on it of any use; what is left will be parts for mine. No glass except 2 small side windows. Even the step is gone.

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