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03-29-2021, 10:23 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Windsor, CA
Posts: 88
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New to us Beaver Patriot !
It has been a few years posting on these forums since selling our old Coachman Santari. The wife and I have been searching for a Beaver or Monaco diligently for about a year and have looked at a few rough coach’s, not been available to get to look at a coach prior to it getting sold, outbid on eBay, ect. Anyway I have lost count of how many we thought “might be the one”. Saturday we went and looked at this 2001 40’ Patriot with 60k and made a deal, ran to out credit union and cut a check and had it home about 4 hours later. So far very happy and the previous owner of 9 years took very good care of it, maintenance records, prior records from the original owner ect. The coach has been stored inside most of its life and it shows with the full body paint which is incredible condition for being 20 years old. Since the tow rating is only 5k with the Cat 330 hp/3060 Allison we will be towing one of our drag cars on an open trailer and leaving our 24’ Pace at home.
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2001 Beaver Patriot 40’ Brandywine plan
1970 Dodge Challenger R/T tube chassis 9.02 @ 151
1968 Plymouth Road Runner street/strip 10.36 @ 131 both on “pump gas”
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03-29-2021, 11:26 PM
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Member
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: Arlington,Wa
Posts: 44
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Congratulations, beautiful looking coach
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Don and Brenda
2017 Tiffin Phaeton 40 AH
2020 Jeep Trailhawk
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03-30-2021, 09:58 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: NorCal
Posts: 3,000
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Well done, hard to go wrong with your choice, Beaver is a quality built coach.
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Outbound
2002 Monaco Executive 500 ISM
2004 GMC 2500HD 4X4
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03-30-2021, 03:27 PM
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Senior Member
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: On the road
Posts: 1,920
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Very nice! Enjoy it and use it. You may be able to upgrade the hitch to 10, 000 and get more power out of you Cat?
Tim
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03-30-2021, 04:22 PM
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Senior Member
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Kitchener, ON, Canada
Posts: 609
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Beautiful coach!! Congrats and enjoy it!
Safe travels,
Josh
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03-30-2021, 05:11 PM
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Senior Member/RVM #90
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Columbus, MS
Posts: 54,780
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Contrats on the new coach! I'm surprised that the tow rating is only 5K!
Good luck, happy trails, and God bless!  
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Sometimes I sits and thinks, sometimes I just sits.....
2002 Monaco Windsor 40PBT, 2013 Honda CRV AWD
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03-30-2021, 07:05 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2018
Posts: 486
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Very nice. Congratulations and Safe Travels!
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03-30-2021, 07:35 PM
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Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 48
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I would look deeper into that engine tran you have My 02Patriot has the 400 Cummins. If it has the Cat it should be a 425 not a 330 and it should have a 3000 or 4000 Allison World transmission and tow 10K the only model that had less was the Monterey SeaCliff Your is also a Magnum B chassis. It may be worth you calling Beaver coach sales in Bend and doing some research. As I understand it the 40' models ALL had the Cat 425
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03-30-2021, 08:00 PM
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Senior Member
Grand Design Owners Club
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Middle Tennessee
Posts: 506
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Nice Coach! If you get to Utah and stop in the town of Beaver the convenience stores there have mugs and bumper stickers that say “ I Love Beaver”.
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2023 Grand Design Reflection 337RLS 5th Wheel
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03-30-2021, 08:18 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Monaco Owners Club Texas Boomers Club
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 13,426
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Beautiful coach!
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2000 Monaco Dynasty
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03-30-2021, 09:22 PM
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Member
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Windsor, CA
Posts: 88
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BeaverDen
I would look deeper into that engine tran you have My 02Patriot has the 400 Cummins. If it has the Cat it should be a 425 not a 330 and it should have a 3000 or 4000 Allison World transmission and tow 10K the only model that had less was the Monterey SeaCliff Your is also a Magnum B chassis. It may be worth you calling Beaver coach sales in Bend and doing some research. As I understand it the 40' models ALL had the Cat 425
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The 425 is the “Thunder” package and surprisingly according to the 2001 brochure only tows 5k as well. I am going to send the serial number off my Allison to Allison as I have read they can tell you how much power and possibly tow rating for the internal parts it was built for, maybe I will get lucky? As from former posts there may be a chance. This coach has 4 wheel Bendix hydro max / Bosch four wheel disc brakes with abs that the previous owner just had gone through about 2000 miles ago. Here are spec sheets on my 330 and the 425 thunder. This thing being bigger by 10’ than my previous coachman definitely drives with more power, braking, steering ect but I don’t want to break it towing if for some reason if really safely cannot handle it.
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2001 Beaver Patriot 40’ Brandywine plan
1970 Dodge Challenger R/T tube chassis 9.02 @ 151
1968 Plymouth Road Runner street/strip 10.36 @ 131 both on “pump gas”
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03-30-2021, 09:28 PM
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Member
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Windsor, CA
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Thank you for all the replies, when we don’t take it racing we will be using without trailering on our road cycling trips. Here is the old Santari at the track,our Challenger and road runner it will be towing probably on an open Featherlite for now.
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2001 Beaver Patriot 40’ Brandywine plan
1970 Dodge Challenger R/T tube chassis 9.02 @ 151
1968 Plymouth Road Runner street/strip 10.36 @ 131 both on “pump gas”
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03-30-2021, 09:36 PM
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Community Moderator
Newmar Owners Club
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
Posts: 31,546
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Beautiful coach. I wish you lots of luck with it.
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Tony & Ruth........... FMCA#F416727
2016 London Aire 4519, Freightliner chassis, Cummins ISX, 2018 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, Blue Ox Avail with AF1. TST 507 TPMS
No amount of money can buy you an extra second of time.
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04-03-2021, 09:37 AM
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Member
Join Date: Apr 2015
Posts: 96
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You should be able to upgrade the hitch for your enclosed trailer. Get a bare bones weight of your RV and see how much room you have on your GCVWR. I have a 94 Marquis that I upgraded the hitch on and with my 24' Pace enclosed trailer and race car, I'm right at the GCVWR. Nice cars and RV by the way !!
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1994 Beaver Marquis Le 3176 Cat, Allison HT-740 4-sp,
Gillig chassis, 40' towing a 24' Pace Shadow GT with
1970 Olds 442 W-30 drag car, 9.90 @ 135 mph
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