SO after much discussion with the mechanic, I decided just to drive it like that and get it looked at in Indianapolis-if I made it. The mechanic who’d been working on it wasn’t set up to do it and none of the truck places could fit me in. I needed to get an alignment and to have the suspension looked at, but I didn’t have time. And I kind of felt like I was going to fall out of my seat a lot of the time. Basically I had to steer at an angle to go straight. But it was leaning pretty heavily to the right and the steering wheel was not aligned. When I finally went back down to pick it up it was running. It stayed at the shop for like six weeks.
1975 winnebago brave interior generator#
fix and/or replace all the wiring for brake lights, signals, wipers, horn, headlights, etc.Full tune-up and replace intake manifold gaskets, timing cover gaskets, etc.Here’s some of what it took to get it stable enough for me to be able to drive it to back to Indianapolis: After maybe five minutes discussion, I bought it and the seller’s son bravely coasted it over to a nearby shop. The price was way too high but I negotiated it down (still way too high) and called Jennifer. There was absolutely no way I could drive it 1000 miles. The brakes were pretty much non-existent. There was some water damage…but it had such a better feel than a modern RV. It had obviously been sitting neglected for a very long time. Shocker, right? This was not “90% restored”, even from a distance. The Winnebago looked much rougher in person than in the photos. So I flew down to Florida to check it out, in hopes of driving it back to Indianapolis for some minor updating.
1975 winnebago brave interior upgrade#
And it has a bathroom, which is a huge upgrade from the 1977 VW bus we loved and traveled in before. Plus, it was small enough to fit in most parking spaces. It was so cute! It was so much cooler than modern RV’s. But after a couple of weeks of scouring the internet for possibilities, we saw an add for a “90% restored” 1974 Winnebago Brave D19. We literally have our two dogs, our luggage, and a couple of hard-to-find-on-island goodies that we’re planning on taking home. We don’t reliably have a driveway or a garage. We’ve been living out of a seemingly endless string of Airbnb’s in Indianapolis for months as Jennifer’s work assignment keeps getting extended. Because as much as we love older vehicles, we knew that we were in no position to buy a project. We thought we could either sell it after the trip or store it to use whenever we’re over here. Something practical we could use for a relaxing road trip in the states before we head home to St. Originally we’d planned to buy a pretty inexpensive, probably very ugly, RV in fairly good working order.
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