We Tour Tiffin Motorhomes

We were up early today to go to the Tiffin tour, offered Monday through Friday at 9:30 am. Before we left we walked Auggie and ran into our new friend Diane. She told us we could get $20 off our stay here by having the tour guide sign a paper from the campground office as proof we took the tour. Twenty bucks for doing what we were going to do anyway? Heck, yeah! I ran and got the paper and we were off.

The tour started with a brief film about the Tiffin family, and then we went to the plant. Tiffin puts out 60 motorhomes a week, up from fifteen a week in 2008.  The buildings were originally part of a cotton processing plant and have been enlarged. We saw three of the assembly areas: one for cabinet building, one for the chassis, and the third for putting it all together. There's another plant nearby that does the floors and one other that only does paint, but we didn't go to those. This is a big place with a lot of walking. By 10:00 it was getting hot and the buildings were not cooled. I could see why shifts were 6:00 am to 2:30!

Assembling trim.

I was surprised to see red engines! Pretty.

The black and gray water tanks. 

The roof is composed of shaped blocks of styrofoam, which is covered with luan and then aluminum.

Here the cabinets are in but the slide-out is not installed yet. 

The coach is pretty much finished except for paint and final details. 

A 1972 Allegro, from the first year of production.

It has been left in its original condition. Groovy colors, man! 

The dinette is in the back.

I love seeing the old motorhomes! Wouldn't it be fun to have one restored?

After our tour we stopped in again to the steakhouse down the road from the campground for lunch. (I think I'll skip dinner tonight--I am still full!) We returned to the rig and I looked up Sally, a fellow Ravelry member who is at the CG. We had a lot in common and talked for quite a while. Sally and I are going to try and get together for a spindling session. 

Then Bob got a call from Wanda. We are to report to the bay tomorrow to have our front driver's side slideout floor rebuilt. We have emptied all the cookbooks and food from the overhead bins in preparation. Looks like we will be in a waiting room tomorrow morning at 7:00 am. Il bring my spindles and iPad to keep busy. Auggie and K.C. will be waiting with us. Wish us luck!