It ain't a Barth, but it probably drew the most attention of any of the thousands of coaches at the FMCA convention.

The coach is a 1957 Flxible 34 foot. From the exterior there were no signs of a RV conversion. The inside was as modern as a new 2009. The original gas engine and manual transmission has been replaced with a Cummins 8.3 and an Allison 6 speed.

Beautiful! I wonder how a coach/bus of that era "rides".

Looks almost just like the Gornicke bus "Happy Max" from the movie RV.

IIRC, the "Happy Max" was a Flxible also.

Nice, with a lot of character too. Not to mention plenty of stainless steel and a million mile chassis. I wouldn't mind one of those.

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Originally posted by towerguy:
IIRC, the "Happy Max" was a Flxible also.

Yes indeed, a 1948 model I believe. Actually 2 of them that were used for the movie.

I was interested in these at one point, and believe that many of them were used as public transit buses. I wonder how many of them were made as motor homes at the factory. They are really unique. What do you think it cost to redo the one in Nick's post? $50G??

.....and, like us, they've got a neat website:

http://www.flxibleowners.org/

A neighbor converted one of those in the early seventies. I was surprised to learn it had a straight eight Buick engine. He zoomed it up with a twin carb manifold, etc. Lost too much low and mid range torque, so went back to a single carb. It was built like a tank.