I'm thinking this section should be renamed to cover almost dead or dying Newells that may or may not be worth bringing back to a useful life.
I just arrived back home after about a 1400 mile round trip journey to check out a 1985 too good to be true Newell again. This Newell was located in Alabama and the seller supposedly used it for a gospel singing group. Talk about a story with a bunch of spin, I could write a book on this deal. This coach had "Bad Deal" written all over it. I wasn't interested in the thing for free. The short of it was it had a bad 8V92 with a cracked head or something major (water in the oil), so much rust every single panel in the basement was almost gone, the supposed great tires were aged and weather cracked, and the interior was beyond deceiving from it's pictures I looked at prior to ever looking at it, which has much needed dry rot repair.
The seller was putting so much pressure on me making the deal that I backed out and supposedly a back up buyer from Nashville was on the phone with him offering him more money.
I hope this poor soul is only interested in maybe using it as a place to live and never travel. For the price I wouldn't have cared if the engine turned out to be bad. I would have been fine with that, but would have hoped the rest of the coach condition would have been much nicer and could have at least drove it home and save a $3000.00 tow bill.
My wife took some photo's of the coach but probably mostly of the good as she doesn't understand the bad. She was busy thinking about the make-over for it and liking the floor plan. But when I told here that I could easily stick $30k into it by doing most of the repairs myself, she understood that.
A Not So Diamond in The Rough Newell Coach!
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