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08-21-2016, 12:04 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Alaska
Posts: 904
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Dave appreciate all your work. Do you plan on publishing another update?
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Tim & Ruth
Alpine Coach 1999 40FDS, Cummins ISC 350
Project Restoration
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08-21-2016, 07:04 AM
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#408
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Senior Member
Alpine Owners Club
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Lake Wales, FL
Posts: 3,113
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Tim, I have committed to updating the list at the end of each month.
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Dave, Bobbi and Fenway
2005 38' FDTS Alpine Limited, 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited
Lake Wales, FL
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08-21-2016, 06:05 PM
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#409
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Junior Member
Alpine Owners Club
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Abbeville , LA
Posts: 16
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Alpine Owner
Please add us to the VIN List
Very interesting Project You are doing
We bought the Alpine from a RV Dealer in 2014 with only 14,723 Miles . The Original Owner bought the Alpine New in 2005
Our Alpine :
VIN # 75410
2005 36ft FDTS
400 Diesel
Present Owners -- Greg & Pat Parlier
The Parliers
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Originally Posted by takepride
I have been scouring the forum trying to match up VIN numbers to models, names, avatars and locations. Mostly I was doing so to give it to the ACA for their use, possibly on the website. It would also give the ownership history of an individual coach, so future owners could ask pertinent questions. It is also darn interesting.
Many clubs of our type track individual units, especially things in limited production (like ours) or a limited history (like ours) or self helping associations (like ours). Boats, special cars, boutique RV's, etc.
WRV tracked their customers the same way. When I purchased mine used, they updated their files when they found out about the sale. The list they maintained had lots of information about the build. That list was allegedly given to ACA, though no one seems to know where it is (or didn't respond to my last inquiry).
There may be some folks that feel the information is too private to share, I suppose. Others mention (last thread on this) that there were too many to track. Be we have to start somewhere, and I have.
I have information on about 100 coaches of an estimated 1400 produced. I put them into a table for filling in as we go. It has the VIN, Model, Engine, Owner, City & State and the avatar for current and past owners.
Maybe we can "Sticky" this and as people contribute, I'll update it.
I'll also cut out the non-existent VINs with whatever information we can gather up. Meanwhile, hopefully someone can find the WRV list and we can use it to start building and updating the list. We will need to include destroyed units as well.
Hopefully some of you would be interested. It looks like there are 387 IRV2 members currently with Alpine, Avalanche or Apex coaches. Lots of former owners, too.
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08-26-2016, 05:41 PM
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#410
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Tustin, California
Posts: 1
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Newbee to IRV2
Alpine Coach Association Members and iRV2 forum Volunteers
Please add us to the VIN list.
VIN: 75269
2005 36' FDDS Alpine Coach Limited
400 ISL
Danny & Elaine Wassenaar
Tustin, CA
wassnr@flash.net
3rd owner of Alpine Coach, as of Dec 2012
Previous owners were Mr. & Mrs. Mark Richey, Thousand Oaks, CA area
and original owners, Mr Richard Smith & Rosemary Martin, from ???Northwest, I believe. Owners were awesome in keeping organized records and receipts of maintenance and repair history from birth.
Lovingly cared for coach has been making memories for us for past 22k miles logged so far. Look forward to enjoying this coach for many more years. Thank you members for keeping this forum alive and well.
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09-05-2016, 01:14 PM
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#411
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Senior Member
Alpine Owners Club
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Lake Wales, FL
Posts: 3,113
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Here is the latest update to the register. I have added all the information from those that have sent me an update. Please let me know if you have any more changes.
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Dave, Bobbi and Fenway
2005 38' FDTS Alpine Limited, 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited
Lake Wales, FL
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09-05-2016, 01:21 PM
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#412
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Senior Member
Alpine Owners Club
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Lake Wales, FL
Posts: 3,113
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Here is the list after I changed it to landscape, sorry, this should be readable.
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Dave, Bobbi and Fenway
2005 38' FDTS Alpine Limited, 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited
Lake Wales, FL
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09-05-2016, 02:09 PM
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#413
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Senior Member
Alpine Owners Club
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Surprise, AZ
Posts: 836
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Dave,
I just want to let you know how much I appreciate you maintaining this list of owners. I hope Takepride is doing well but am concerned that we haven't heard from him in a very long time.
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Bob Bowers (Surprise, AZ)
2003 Alpine Coach 40' FDTS
2014 Jeep Cherokee Lattitude
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09-05-2016, 02:44 PM
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#414
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Senior Member
Alpine Owners Club
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Lake Wales, FL
Posts: 3,113
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bcbowers
Dave,
I just want to let you know how much I appreciate you maintaining this list of owners. I hope Takepride is doing well but am concerned that we haven't heard from him in a very long time.
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I know, it has been over 3 years since Milt posted here. He was very helpful, he even sent me a switch I needed.
I am going to bring ownership to a discussion at DRR in January, if something happens to me I want whoever takes it over to have the source files and not have to recreate it like I did. Thank God I had a program that did most of the work, it was still hours of tweaking and touching up things that did not come over right. I now have it in MS Excel so it should be easy to handle.
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Dave, Bobbi and Fenway
2005 38' FDTS Alpine Limited, 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited
Lake Wales, FL
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09-06-2016, 11:44 PM
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#415
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Alaska
Posts: 904
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Minor Correction
SN No. 72176
1999 40 FDS 350
Tim & Ruth Butler
Anchorage, AK
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Tim & Ruth
Alpine Coach 1999 40FDS, Cummins ISC 350
Project Restoration
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09-23-2016, 11:28 AM
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Member
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Posts: 48
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I posted earlier, but do not find my submission in this thread, so again:
74378, 2001 Alpine, 38FDDS, 350 Cummins, bought May 2016 from prior owner, Ed Cupstid, Vidalia, LA. Understand he had only owned it for about 6 months having bought it as temporary living space while nursing brother-in-law in his final days. He indicated he had bought it out of Ohio. Now has brand new tires all around, overall excellent condition.
Ron and Cindy Idom, Baton Rouge, LA - high and dry during recent floods, others in the storage facility where we retrieved ours from before the flood took water above the dash. One transporter picking up a flooded M/H at the storage lot a few days ago indicated they had picked up over 500 M/Hs since the flood, planned for crushing, thus not sure if other WRVs will disappear.
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Ron Idom
2001 Alpine 38' FDDS Vin 74378 Cummins 350HP. Baton Rouge, LA
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09-23-2016, 02:17 PM
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#417
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Senior Member
Alpine Owners Club
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Lake Wales, FL
Posts: 3,113
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Ron, I have you and Cindy added to the list. I will be sending the monthly update right after the first of Oct, you will be on it. Glad you stayed dry.
Dave
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Dave, Bobbi and Fenway
2005 38' FDTS Alpine Limited, 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited
Lake Wales, FL
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10-04-2016, 08:30 AM
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Member
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Posts: 48
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Suggestion: This could be a wonderful resource for getting local WRV owners connected, e.g. publish a list sorted by state. Also beneficial to that effort if everyone included either an email address or phone, etc. to enable contact. Perhaps also include any existing club affiliation?
Also, there are a few Alpines listed on sites that part out RVs, they likely would provide the vins for inclusion on the list to help eliminate blank spaces. Cause of death may provide some caution signals for current owners e.g. engine fire, wreck, flood, etc.
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Ron Idom
2001 Alpine 38' FDDS Vin 74378 Cummins 350HP. Baton Rouge, LA
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10-04-2016, 10:42 AM
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#419
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Senior Member
Alpine Owners Club
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Lake Wales, FL
Posts: 3,113
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Here is the latest update in two sorts, the first is in VIN order, the second is by State.
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Dave, Bobbi and Fenway
2005 38' FDTS Alpine Limited, 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited
Lake Wales, FL
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10-04-2016, 11:00 AM
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#420
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Senior Member
Alpine Owners Club
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Lake Wales, FL
Posts: 3,113
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ronidom
Suggestion: This could be a wonderful resource for getting local WRV owners connected, e.g. publish a list sorted by state. Also beneficial to that effort if everyone included either an email address or phone, etc. to enable contact. Perhaps also include any existing club affiliation?
Also, there are a few Alpines listed on sites that part out RVs, they likely would provide the vins for inclusion on the list to help eliminate blank spaces. Cause of death may provide some caution signals for current owners e.g. engine fire, wreck, flood, etc.
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Ron, thank you for your suggestions, please be sure to bring them up at the ACA meeting at DRR in January, we will be discussing how we want to handle the list going forward.
Just so you (and everyone else) knows, this list is an Excel Spreadsheet, it is not a database, so it gets clumsy as we add more data. It was started by Milt Chambers from information gathered from this forum. I took over earlier this year when no one had been able to reach Milt for several months. I went through each post to this forum from post #1 to be sure they were all included. There are some entries that did not correlate to a post, they are still shown, but with no date shown in the "Last Update" column. By virtue of this list being posted on this forum it is open to the public and as such many people do not want their personal information (email, phone, addresses, etc.) distributed that way. Since I have taken it over I only include information that has either been historically on the list (entered by Milt), or is sent via the forum or PM to me, and I only reference the IRV2 User Name, that way you can be sure ONLY the information you want to post is shown.
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Dave, Bobbi and Fenway
2005 38' FDTS Alpine Limited, 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited
Lake Wales, FL
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