I get emails all the time alerting me to possible finds for our members. Here is one such find with a rebuke post on craigslist.

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1996 barth 36ft motorhome

Date: 2010-02-11, 12:47PM


96 barth 36ft motorhome sleeps four fully self contained 7500 onan quiet generater cummins diesel engine 21k miles 6500 obo call 270-202-6024 calls only do not check email



Location: bowling green
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests



Original URL: http://bgky.craigslist.org/cto/1596378568.html

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Then there is a follow up to this post. I guess someone drove to look at it and gave their impressions.

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about the 1996 barth motor home

Date: 2010-02-20, 7:21AM


FOR YOUR OWN GOOD DONT EVEN CALL ABOUT THIS RV. IT IS A HUNK OF JUNK. I DROVE 3 HOURS TO LOOK AT IT AND I WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN IT IF IT WERE GIVEN TO ME. NO JOKE. THE INSIDES ARE GONE AND THE OUTSIDE HAS BEEN PAINTED WITH A ROLLER. JUST WANTING TO SAVE YOU ALL GAS MONEY AND THE TROUBLE



it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests



Original URL: http://bgky.craigslist.org/rvs/1609350073.html

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I wonder what kind of person would spend Barth money on a nice big coach then wreck it.
I also wonder what the second guy thought he would get for 6500 OBO?

There's something fishy here. Heck, a 1996 Barth shell w/diesel and diesel genset for $6500 is a steal for just the chassis and parts. Either the year is off or this is some elaborate joke or scam.

At least painting with a roller is not as bad as applying barn paint with a broom. I once saw an RV (converted school bus) that appeared to have been painted in such a manner.

I once had a friend who painted his old Studebaker with a sponge. He used automotive paint, taped it and prepared it carefully and it didn't look half bad. At least from 10 ft away.

My Uncle Bill painted his 194? Something, in my Dad's garage with a paint brush. It was purple and I thought it was very cool. It was a coupe with a ledge in the back so big a kid of 7 or 8 could lay up there and day dream all day on a long trip (which I did) Uncle Bill was also very cool.
J

I called the lady that owns this Barth today. She is a very nice lady who was widowed two years ago. The Barth is a 1992, not a 1996. It is a converted medical unit. It has the factory paint job and she thinks the guy that looked at it went to the wrong place and must have looked at a different RV

She said when they bought it, the Barth had been in a hurricane and got water damage inside. I didn't ask if that had been fixed or where

It has what she called a front diesel pusher I gave up trying to explain pusher and puller, but it seems it has a Cummins 5.9 front engine in it. Perhaps they always went in reverse, who knows? It also has a diesel Onan genset.

She is sending me pictures Monday.