After doing a roadside repair on barth today on the trip home, i figured it was finally time to register and intro myself instead of lurking as i have been doing for the past year.

So, "Hi everybody".

Hello there. Welcome to the forums.

You been lurking for a year huh? Then, you'll know why I'm asking about your roadside repairs then.

Which 77 Barth did you get and what happened on your trip?

You obviously know how useful this site can be. Glad you are here! BC, eh? You never know, there may be Barths in the area sometime! Keep in touch.

Our Barth is a 25 foot on a 1976 Chevy chassis. I am not sure if she is a Regal/Euro/ ?model? so far. I will post pictures and her "backstory" about how she ended up in our driveway in some future thread. It was a round-about route.

Our roadside repair was a fan belt (alt,water pump, fan) replacement about 5 miles west of Leavenworth, Washington. About halfway up the cascade mountains. Just before leaving on our 700 mile roundtrip i was lurking here as usual and read some good tips. This prompted me to hit the local auto parts store and buy spare belts and rad hoses to throw in Barth's "bum". Thank goodness i did. Otherwise our half hour pitstop could have been much worse.

Ok next question: I know someone here wants our data tag info. Exactly what do you want and where do i send/post it?

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Originally posted by andrew mck:
I will post pictures and her "backstory" about how she ended up in our driveway in some future thread.

Thanks for the images!!! Nice looking coach you've got there.

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Nice looking coach you've got there.

Note the front bumper hitch. There was a post here not long ago about using the front hitch to push his boat to see better to launch. Any connection?

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Originally posted by Dick Dubbs:
There was a post... about using the front hitch to push his boat to see better to launch. Any connection?

Dana posted his on 04-03-2012. Barth & Boat

No connection to that post, but as best as we can figure that's what its there for. There is a matching one in the back.

It was probably a case of 100 miles to the lake hitched to rear and the last 20 feet into the lake hitched to the front.

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Originally posted by Dick Dubbs:

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Nice looking coach you've got there.

Note the front bumper hitch. There was a post here not long ago about using the front hitch to push his boat to see better to launch. Any connection?

wally 34ft monarch van isle bc.to bad i am not strong on the computor at this time.i will try to e-mail pics.it was beautifully and simply done,using 2and half inch square steel,same stock as receptacle.35inch with flat iron butted to the ends then Bolted to the frame.one foot was butted in the middle to accomodate the hitch.you can send mee a sketch of what you imagine.47inches of square stock was used.good luck wally.

Good to see another Barth in BC, Andrew
What part of the province are you located?
Just back from a trip to the Okanagan and down through the Cascades of Washington....second trip in our coach and everything went great
Have fun with the Barth, Neil

We are in Coquitlam.

We also just returned (from our 1st big trip) in Barth. We were Grand Coulee area, just south of Osoyoos. We also came back through the Cascades over Hwy 2 (Stevens Pass).

We are already planning big-trip #2 over the Cascades, on Hwy 20 this time.