I need to be educated, what are the differences between Regal Regency and Breakaway. I know the breakaway has a different suspension . I hope to be buying this time next year
Thanks for the help

Hi W&B,

If you go to the "Barths for Sale" forum you will find descriptions of all the models along with pictures.

Here is a link to get you started:

http://barthmobile.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9331087061/m/3011019261/p/1

Much of what you will chose is likely to be a matter of price. Regal, Breakaway, Regency, in ascending order. Each is nicer than the preceding.

Get familiar with the search function of this forum to find a lot of useful information.

I have to apologize, it has been some time since I looked at those entries on the Barth models. I guess I just put pictures and no descriptions. I'll try to kind of do that this week.

Check this out, it may help, I knew I did something!!!

Thanks that was a great slid presentation and filled in a lot of gaps. regencys have air ride do breakaways?

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Originally posted by w&bknocke:
regencys have air ride do breakaways?

Most do not. A few do.

Most have the cumming 5.9 diesel. A few have Cat or GM diesel engines.

Most are built on Spartan chassis. A few on Gillig.

Barth built almost anything, so there are few sure things.

The smoothness of the air ride is a strong point, are breakaways rougher riding or still better than the bread truck sob

My 28' Breakaway is a DP on a Spartan chassis. I also contemplated buying a '97 28' diesel puller Trek on the P-30/32 chassis.

Despite the shorter wheelbase on my Breakaway (only a couple of inches longer than the LWB - 19' LOA - Ford diesel van I have), the handling is far more pleasant.

My 28' has the same running gear that the 30' has, so it's a bit rough in the limerock road from my house to the main road, but that's only 1.5 miles. Once on the pavement, it rides quite smoothly. Some spots on I-75 in GA are deteriorated, and I can feel that, but mostly, it's a sweet ride. The Bilstein shocks probably help.