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Upgrading Your Newell All about how you want to, or have made changes to your Newell

View Poll Results: Was it worth the effort?
Darn Right 5 83.33%
Kept you off the streets 0 0%
What else would you have done 1 16.67%
It made you new friends 2 33.33%
You're better for it 1 16.67%
Why? 0 0%
NoWay Jose! 0 0%
Looser 0 0%
No Opinion 0 0%
Do it Again! 1 16.67%
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Old 07-20-2010, 09:02 PM
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Default Project ends on the ole' 74

I'm done.. are you ever... we know better... however it's been a year.. someone will love her soon...we've come quite close... if you have time check out the last album..and do the poll

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I just wanted to understand, this was just a project and it is time to move on?
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Old 07-25-2010, 05:03 PM
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Question Well yes and No...

First I will say it started a project.. For years I've restored things.. I was in the Aircraft maintenance business for over 20 years & I restored or refurbished everything from antiques to jets. My favorite was a 1929 Parks that was once owned and written about by Richard Bach. The other part is we love the outdoors and what go with it. We have a 37ft fifth-wheel with all the toys.. but.. it is sorta a pain to travel in.. so the decision was made to move on to a class A coach. I knew nothing of the Newell until the 74'. the coach needed work and I needed something to do other than my day job.. So it was priced right..I thought..(TBD) and I would not count the time only the $$$ invested.. I had looked at other coaches and tour'd the factory's.. I grew up in the industry as my father was one of the early trailer & camper manufactures also moble homes..
Almost without exception of all the factories I toured I saw construction that was not up to par for the long term.. We all know that highways take there toll on any coach.. I have to put the fifth-wheel back together everytime I use it. When I lived in Fairbanks my father drove his coach up... all the cabinets were on the floor when he arrived.

What I saw in this Newel was solid hand crafted construction. So the project part faded a bit and warmen into "I'll Keep Her'.. and we're not is a rush to part.. The fifth-wheel can go anytime.. Arizona has it challanges however.. 110` for one and the desire to head for the mountians.. the 74 has some limitations.. so I need to decide how to over-come them.. the largest one for AZ is the lack of Coach Air.. We run the Genny and are frosted by both roof air's on low .. the second is a normally asperated engine.. not that it won't pull the long long 7` grade cause it will I just proved it to myself .. fully loaded and a towed behind it.. but it was never really dsigned to do that.... I am capiable of desiging and installing both.. but there is a big $$$$. So my solution at some point is to find something in the late 80's~early 90's and do it again if need be.. Until then I'll keep tweaking the ole' 74.. use it when it cools down a bit.. .. Thiswas not about $$$ There is one other side to this story.. Since I had something to focus on other that TV and going out to eat... I lost over 50 lbs... Project or life saver.. you be the judge...
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so the answer is yes?
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Smile Movin on

Yes to another Newell I'm hooked.
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Old 08-29-2010, 08:35 AM
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Default OK Just one more Thing ....

I just can't hep.. myself.. I had to do one more thing...

I added a Toshiba 1080P HD/DVD to the bedroom.. Now I'm done..
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jimmy,

you have a sickness......

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And the good news.....there is NO cure....
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