FtW Mike
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 4, 2016
Last year on our way to Disney for Christmas we experienced a major mechanical malfunction that caused us to cancel our trip. At that moment the decision it was time for our coach to go the voyage. We came home disappointed rescheduled for this year and starting looking for a new coach. The "REPAIR BILL" as she had come to be known went into the shop for essential repairs as we intended to put her on the market. Repairs took a lot longer than expected as many of the parts needed are no longer manufactured and are in limited supply from a select few distributors.
Adventuring Season ( That's what we tell THE KIDS we are doing ) came and went and we had no coach to go anywhere with. As the Hershey show came we got the old girl back and began our search in earnest. Our local dealer had a consignment unit but the owner wouldn't deal and the others had nothing that interested. We started on line and found some down at Lazy Days in Tampa that looked promising.
A friend some of you know I understand "The Crazy Bird Lady in 1600 Loop" had given me the name and contact information for an associate Robert G there and I reached out. I emailed him our list of MUST haves Would be NICE to have price range and preferred brands. While we checked out what they had on line and discussed how old to go and disagreed over Gas or Diesel. We found a 2015 Tiffin Allegro Open Road 36 LA that met most of our lists and seemed in the right price range. Two days later an identical unit with less than 6000 miles come on line I reached out immediately to Robert and asked for photos and additional information on it That was his day off and the next day he did track it down in their intake lot and sent a number of photos highlighting our list of HAVES and the overall coach in general. Two weeks ago today over dinner we looked them over discussed the pro's and cons and called him and made our deposit
Adventuring Season ( That's what we tell THE KIDS we are doing ) came and went and we had no coach to go anywhere with. As the Hershey show came we got the old girl back and began our search in earnest. Our local dealer had a consignment unit but the owner wouldn't deal and the others had nothing that interested. We started on line and found some down at Lazy Days in Tampa that looked promising.
A friend some of you know I understand "The Crazy Bird Lady in 1600 Loop" had given me the name and contact information for an associate Robert G there and I reached out. I emailed him our list of MUST haves Would be NICE to have price range and preferred brands. While we checked out what they had on line and discussed how old to go and disagreed over Gas or Diesel. We found a 2015 Tiffin Allegro Open Road 36 LA that met most of our lists and seemed in the right price range. Two days later an identical unit with less than 6000 miles come on line I reached out immediately to Robert and asked for photos and additional information on it That was his day off and the next day he did track it down in their intake lot and sent a number of photos highlighting our list of HAVES and the overall coach in general. Two weeks ago today over dinner we looked them over discussed the pro's and cons and called him and made our deposit