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08-12-2015, 05:45 PM
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Senior Member
Newmar Owners Club
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Location: Maggie Valley, NC
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Flexible
Look what I stumbled on in a hotel parking lot in Asheboro, NC
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08-12-2015, 06:31 PM
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Member
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 88
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Cool
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08-12-2015, 07:39 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Nation Wide Retired
Posts: 520
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2013 Duramax GMC 3500 4x4 Dually DIESEL 6.6L V8 TURBO
2014 H-D Electra Glide Ultra Limited
2021 42FT Beacon
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08-12-2015, 10:30 PM
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Senior Member
Country Coach Owners Club
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 7,753
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At the 50th anniversary of FMCA in Gillette, there were a bunch of Flex buses. Some were rode hard and put away wet but some had been full restored and they were very neat. Might be fun to have one.
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Don
2002 Country Coach Intrigue
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08-13-2015, 06:28 AM
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Senior Member
Newmar Owners Club
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Maggie Valley, NC
Posts: 903
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Another photo...
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08-13-2015, 06:43 AM
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Senior Dude
Triple E Owners Club
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Somewhere, BC.
Posts: 5,613
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Definitely "Retro" looking!
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Les (RVM12), Bonnie and 4 leggers Shelby and Tea Cup
Triple E Empress A3802FW Diesel Pusher 330 Cat
FMCA-420438 Good Sam
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08-13-2015, 06:45 AM
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Community Administrator
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 53,430
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Beautiful !
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08-13-2015, 08:04 AM
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Senior Member/RVM #90
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Columbus, MS
Posts: 54,626
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WOW!
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Joe & Annette
Sometimes I sits and thinks, sometimes I just sits.....
2002 Monaco Windsor 40PBT, 2013 Honda CRV AWD
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08-13-2015, 08:12 AM
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Registered User
Newmar Owners Club
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Mooresville IN
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It's great that someone out there restores these things. Beautiful to look at, but honestly I would hate to maintain it.
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08-13-2015, 07:57 PM
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Senior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club
Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 1,484
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They're beautiful buses.
At the risk of being "that guy", it's actually spelled without the "e" (I assume so they could copyright it as a trade name).
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Dave RVM#66 and Carol
1998 Pace Arrow Vision
Seeing the USA - 200 miles at a time
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08-13-2015, 08:40 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Stone Mountain, GA
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I drove one of those back in the 60s that our dance band owned. A great way to travel. I think it finally died near Tifton GA in '63. Buick straight 8 engine.
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08-14-2015, 09:53 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: West Palm Beach, FL. USA
Posts: 27,563
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Saw it on the highway near Asheville, NC, a few days ago too.
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Gary Brinck
Former owner of 2004 American Tradition and several other RVs
Home is West Palm Beach, FL
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08-14-2015, 10:46 AM
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Senior Member
Newmar Owners Club
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Maggie Valley, NC
Posts: 903
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Appears its owned by the Allegro Coffee Co. out of Colorodo.
Allegro Coffee | Home
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08-14-2015, 02:53 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 1,450
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Flxible - they dropped the "e"
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim28730
Look what I stumbled on in a hotel parking lot in Asheboro, NC
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Flxible Bus
It all started with a flexible sidecar connection that allowed a motorcycle to lean when rounding curves. However, "flexible" could not be copyrighted.
The history of the Flxible bus manufacturing company goes back to the founding in 1913 of the Flexible Side Car Co.. The company soon became the world's largest manufacturer of motorcycle sidecars, after its founder, Hugo H. Young, had patented his invention of a "flexible" sidecar connection joint — which allowed the wheels of the sidecar to lean when the sidecar and motorcycle rounded curves. Hugo Young's flexible mounting invention resulted in a high demand for his sidecars — a number of which were built for the Allied Armies during WW-I. In 1919, the company's name was changed to The Flxible Company. The company's trademark name "Flxible" had been derived from Young's invention, but the "e" was dropped from the common spelling of "flexible" to allow the misspelled name to be copyrighted.
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2007 Newmar Mountain Aire 3991
2012 Chevy Malibu LT1
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