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Name your coach?
Have you named your coach? Our first coach was a ’91 Pace Arrow we named Sally, because to us she was long and tall. The ’95 Affinity was Tilly, because she was mostly teal. This coach is Preema–PREvost MArathon–get it! We added the extra “E” so it would sound right. She is also a primadonna who works when she wants to, which luckily for us is most of the time. She hides electrical and other gremlins, which she uncages here and there. When we left Marathon Ft Worth Saturday, I had let the front bags all the way down to level her. When we left, the front air would not come up, so I manually raised the front to get us on the road. Then the AC buttons on the dash woould not respond, so had to stop in the next rest area to reset the coach–nice to have the OTR AC in the meantime! Worked fine after that. Then the water pump quit, but we managed until we hooked up at the campground. Fiddled with the pump and the connections, and got it working again–now it works fine. Then this morning, I went to dump the tank, and the ridiculous electric valve for the black tank would not open. Tried several times, but no go. Finally opened it up manually to dump the tank, closed it, secured it, and opened the grey water valve, which worked fine. Went to get a tour of Jimmy’s new coach here at Ruidoso Motorcoach Resort–beautiful coach–when I came back to close the grey water valve, tried the black water valve and lo and behold, it worked fine! Gremlins for sure.
So Preema is definitely a primadonna!
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cramalotinn
texasminivan
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My wife names every vehicle we own. So the motorcoach is called “Whiskey” the jag is “Stella” and the Kia is “Bella”. Theres the entire fleet! lol
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Per, ours was named………by the previous owner. He had a custom bra made for it, Rolling Thunder. The Redhead declared she wasn’t traveling in something called Rollling Thunder so the bra is now safely stored away.
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Per…
As you know, ours is named BoB. Normally short for our “Big ol’ Bus”, but more than once has meant “Bring out Buck$$$$”!!
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There was a time when most Prevost conversions had names or phrases on the front cap.
Ours was “Classy Chassis”. Some have been cute like “Roamin’ Holiday”. Some have been a statement such as “My Way”
The worst in every respect we saw at the old American Coach in Allen, Michigan and to this day it still wins the prize for stupid. In foot high letters on the rear cap was “Screaming Orgasm”
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Better then bucket of bolts!
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Our coach is “Leo”. It’s our “fifth” prevost, we agreed to buy on the “fifth,” Leo being the “fifth”astrological sign, one of our birthdays the “fifth”, fifth time to we tried to buy directly from Marathon, and finally succeeded.
1st bus, 2001 XL 45 CC 2 HWH slides-Rainbow Warrior, previous owner named it for the prismatic paint
2nd bus, 2002 XLII 45 single Marathon was “Marah”
3rd bus 2000 no slide H3-45 Marathon was Lily, for she was big and bright
4th bus 1992 XL 40 Beaver Prevost, was “Zorro” had a “Z” in the graphics
And now “Leo”
Before the busses, we had two fiberglass Class A coaches, a 2000 Country Coach Affinity, called the “Affinity” and….
1999 Airstream Cutter Diesel 35 ft one slide dubbed “POS”
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The Bus.
1999 XLV X-6872, liberty #440 -
54 years ago, I talked my father into renting a boat on our annual vacation so I could waterski. He was in doubt I could ski since we were all landlubbers with no boating experience. My uncle volunteered to drive the rental boat and was a real character. Everytime he gunned the throttle he would shout “Roll ‘em” in a Jackie Gleason voice. My father’s eyes lit up when he saw I could ski. In his true spirit, the week we got back from vacation we were boat owners. Of course, the boat was named “Roll ‘em”.
We soon had a cottage in Canada with a slew of boats, all with names:
Fishing Boat – Roll ‘em Early (we fished at dawn)
Sail Boat – Roll ‘em Away
Kayak – Roll ‘em Over
Canoe – Roll ‘em Yonder
Pontoon – Roll ‘em Party
So naturally, my Prevost is named “Roll ‘em Home”. The only place you’ll see the name is when you’re parked near me and see it as a WiFi choice.
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My kids named it “BOB” Big Old Bus
I don’t think it very big but it is old.
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Jon….
that stupid name reminds me of a fishing boat that was docked next to us in Galveston… it was called ” Master Baiter “…. he got a lots of looks on that one!!!
Cheers, Diane
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Our Monaco Dynasty was named ‘Princess Grace of Monaco’….aka… ‘Gracie’.
Our Liberty is named ‘The Hogwarts Express’ as it has a train horn and Craig is a fan of the Harry Potter series.
Mark
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Mark, that’s cute. Margrit says hello! Has Craig heard any polar bear jokes lately?
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Per and Margrit,
Craig says ‘hello’ (and me too!)…. and please, don’t get him started on jokes. Lordy, lordy…. he wont’ stop if you give him a glimmer of interest.
Hope our tracks cross in the future!
M and C
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We don’t advertise the name given to our coach. We do have a name we have kept to ourselves and you won’t find it anywhere painted on the outside or labeled on the inside. The name, well for us, tripping with the bus is comparable to a good therapy session. We refer to our bus as “Wheel Therapy.” We are in a happy place even when surrounded by idiots on the highway.
Later today we depart Southern Pines for our annual week working with the USGA’s Men’s Open Golf Championship at Oakmont, PA. After the Open we will be spending a couple of weeks free roaming parts of PA, OH, and WV. Then back home to continue polishing newly exposed areas of stainless.
If you see us out there on the highway give us a hoot.
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