Davydd
Minnesota
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Actually I don't have any dealer applied advertisement on my B. The factory applied GWVan Legend advertisement with website and phone number on the back doesn't bother me. Compared to some others I think it is more understated. No reason not to be an advocate and ambassador for Class B RVing in general. Once with my previous Pleasure-way when stalled to a complete stop on the freeway outside Washington, DC, a guy got out of his car in front of me and ran back to get the Pleasure-way phone number off my B and ask me how I liked it.
What I do like about the Great West Van Legend and the Airstream Interstate is the understated side graphics. No swoops. I hate swoops.
Davydd
2011 Great West Van Legend Sprinter B Camper Van
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MAU MAU
New Hampshire and Maine
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I agree that less graphics give a unit more class, and yours is just that.
I don't know what Winnebago was thinking with the graphics on the ERA, but in my opinion, it makes the unit look like it belongs in a circus.
I recently removed the Roadtrek name from four places on my unit, as well as the dealer and RVIA stickers. It now looks cleaner and more steathly.
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MelinProv
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Davydd really nice and functional projects I wanted to wax my B this weekend but its snowing again tonite and will go down to 27 degrees dang it
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Davydd
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Busy week this week for me. My last project to maximize storage in my Great West Van Legend was to put shelves in the back closet located behind the bathroom and cantilevered over the sleeping area. It was just an open cabinet with a coat hanger receiver at the top (left in that you can see at the top). We never used it for hanging clothes and was just kind of a disorganized catchall for us. So I decided to add three shelves. The difficulty I quickly found was the back wall was curved inward from bottom to top, the side walls were not parallel to each other, the front wall was slanted and not parallel to the back wall and there were cutouts for a radio receiver and plumbing inside the cabinet covered with Ultraleather upholstering. Nothing was normal and of course you can't plumb when the B is not parked level. So I had to do a lot of measuring and building of cardboard templates to get the shelf dimensions. Then I had to figure out tolerances to be able to slip the shelves in as the curved inward back wall made it impossible to drop a shelf in from the top and any installed brackets would make it impossible to lift up from below. I finally came up with a wood spacer system to build from the bottom up and insert after getting the shelves at each level positioned inside the cabinet. So I built and installed from the bottom up. The first shelf was a given. It rested on the radio receiver cutout. The next two shelves were space 5" clear so canned goods or a soft drink or beer can could be stored with little spare wastage as I have illustrated with some props. I used 1/2" melamine covered shelf boards that I bought at Menards. I was able to cut the shelves from one 24" x 60" board. Because nothing was square, I used a saber saw with a board clamped down to act as a guide to get a straight cut. Looks simple enough but it took two days.
I noticed the last Great West Van Legend I saw at the RV shows had gone back to putting shelves in this cabinet but they only had two shelves, not three. So now our two hanging closets no longer can be used that way. I think we can live with that since we never carry clothes that really need hanging. I took the hanger receiver that was in the front armoire and installed it under the back overhead cabinet. It is just there for temporary hanging of clothes and things. It may never get used, but is better than throwing it away.
I think I am done with maximizing storage for now.
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Tanya6520
Ft Pierce, FL
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Removed food and cooler, bedding for laundering, kitty supplies, clothes and shoes to be washed, computer and reading material, cleaned the galley and swept out the "tin can" and put new supplies in for the next trip. My husband pressure cleaned it. Lots of bugs from our trip back to Florida from Ohio last night.
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MAU MAU
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Davydd: Very nice job on the cabinets and maximizing your storage.
Are those cabinets all solid? And now that you have your storage all squared away, where are you taking your GW this Summer?
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Davydd
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The cabinets are solid 3/4" thick walls to screw into.
We had our 1,500 mile shakedown trip to Missouri and back last week. In May we will head out for Washington, DC and back through Indianapolis. In late June we head for Alaska. In September, a close trip in Wisconsin for the BSG Social in Hixton/Alma. Busy as usual. Last year we were on the road for over 100 days and really did not have much time to make any alterations.
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goreds2
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Tanya6520 wrote:Removed food and cooler, bedding for laundering, kitty supplies, clothes and shoes to be washed, computer and reading material, cleaned the galley and swept out the "tin can" and put new supplies in for the next trip. My husband pressure cleaned it. Lots of bugs from our trip back to Florida from Ohio last night. Yikes, my bedding does need to be washed. Thanks for the reminder. 
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MAU MAU
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Sounds like you have a great adventure ahead Davydd.
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jvanoyen
Grand Rapids, MI
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MAU MAU wrote:Sounds like you have a great adventure ahead Davydd. I enjoy hearing about all the chatter about our Class B's.
What I don't enjoy is the pop up that always occurs, asking me to sign up. I am signed up. I hate the pop up! HOW can that be eliminated? I am anxious to hear from anyone who knows!
Jerry Van Oyen
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