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Originally Posted by The Gritz Carlton
..." you’ll see it’s front wheel drive"...
Even more space back there...even better. My first experience as a stupid kid with a motorhome was my dad's GM on the Old's chassis...never knew what he had back them and could have just taken it a few years later before he gave it away...in great shape!Ugly, orange shag carpet but back then it was the cat's meow. One just like it is in the MH Hall of Fame in Illinois near the Thor Universe.
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A family member is restoring one now. He completely gutted it and removed front chassis section with engine, transmission, and suspension to rebuild and update with new heads, intake, fuel injection, etc... It’s quite a project but he’s done a great job so far. By the way, the interior with all that carpeting and steel supports weighed a bunch. Even so, the initial total weight wasn’t that high because of the light weight chassis and aluminum body. In my opinion the engineering was very good for a motorhome considering it was over 40 years ago.
To your point, tandem rear axles with wide track and low floor could make a great compact toy hauler in North America. Space between rear wheel wells could even allow driving a small car over the axles so weight doesn’t end up hanging off the back and screwing up handling. Unfortunately, the RAM ProMaster is the only FWD chassis in US and it has low GCWR.
In Europe they use similar designs based on Fiat Ducato for cargo trucks and mini buses in addition to using it for motorhomes.
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