Strangelove”, as he kept recalculating how their fuel-leaking bird might get some target before having to ditch! Good times. No wonder I always admired the B52 navigator in “Dr. I think she averaged about 8 mpg, usually pulling a Honda Civic CVCC behind, and I would perch on the engine cover with large road maps and a mechanical wheel gauge to plot the route, segment distances, and fuel economy. In such a small package, the loo at the stern was a wise choice.įrom the SF area, we visited Crater Lake, Oregon, Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons, Yosemite, Sequoia, Lake Tahoe, the central California coast, etc. ‘Remember going with him to look at the variations (there were two floor plans, as I recall, one with the loo amidships and a master bedroom aft, and ours with the loo/shower at the aft end and no master bedroom). My Dad had an 18′ Brave from the same time period. Great memories of this one’s little brother. Have any of you owned a Winnebago motorhome from the 1970s? Do you think this one is worth saving? It sure looks good to me. It does turn over and this rig was last on the road in 2010, traveling a mere 57,000 miles since new. There are no engine photos, but this one has the optional Dodge 440 cubic-inch V8, which unfortunately isn’t currently running. Or, there is for those of us who did a lot of hard-sided camping in this era. Being 42-years old, the comforts in this Brave will be light years from the quality and luxury that a new motorhome would have, but there’s a certain quaintness about these old RVs. There is a generator, which is a nice addition for those stays away from civilization when you just have to catch up on the latest hijinks of those wacky Kardashians and you don’t have any power for your flatscreen tv. There are only two photos of the entire interior, if you don’t count a close-up of the White-Westinghouse stereo and CB Radio, which is obviously much more important than showing photos of the bedroom area, dining area, storage, mechanical systems, or bathroom would have been. In a nod to Craigslist ads the world over, the photos on this one are not that clear or plentiful, even though it’s an eBay auction instead of a CL ad. He did not work on it due to his health and it has not been on the road for about 10 years.” These can be both fairly simple and nightmarishly complicated to work on because they combine all of the systems on a vehicle with almost of the systems in your house, all in a rolling box not much longer than a Lincoln. Talk about a perfect platform for taking photos! The seller says that this one has no rust and they bought it from their “neighbor some time ago and it spent its life on his pistachio farm in the California high desert. I prefer the classic Winnebago shape, but that’s just me. This is the era when Winnebago was introducing new designs, such as the Brave II. This is, I believe, a D-21 model with the side bathroom and being 21-feet long. I guess the reason would have been that someone liked that color better. This Brave looks like it has had its” rally yellow” wide stripe painted brown for some reason. This boxy beauty is located in Inyokern, California. This 1975 Winnebago Brave D-21 is listed on eBay with no reserve and a current bid of around $1,000. Even though I drive 40,000+ miles a year all over the US, I dream about having something like this to travel the country in. Spring fever is hitting hard here in the Midwest, although having temperatures in the 50s and 60s in February was highly unusual and the snow went away a few weeks earlier than usual.
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