There is a 1987 Barth listed on this site for $19,500. Can anyone tell if it is constructed in the classic Barth manner with thousands of steel rivets? Or did they stop making them this way before 1987? If it is not the classic construction, what is it? Does anyone have any info or ideas about this coach? Is it a good deal?

Don't hold me to this, however, I have seen a couple coachs (in pictures only) that were made after 1995 and I think there were some corners cut. Primarily on the interior.

Any 1980's Barth is going to have the same basic construction. Some advantages in the later years was the forward hood above the windshield etc. However, my personal thought is that the '80's to maybe 1993 were the years of the greatest attention to detail.

My opinion only, no scientific study here!!!

crema...
you mention "steel" rivets...are you sure their not aluminum??

Dave, you say: "Some advantages in the later years was the forward hood above the windshield etc."

Would you expand on that a little?

Mine has a built in sun visor. some i understand were fiber glass too?

My description was not good. Thanks Dale, for some reason I couldn't think of the term Sun Visor.

We traded our 1987 Barth in Feb 2008 in AZ. It was re-skinned with white aluminum and alumimum rivets.

Jim