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We began our search for a bunk coach in Oct 2012 looking at Prevost conversions as we had a 2002 and a 2010 at the the time. We met Brian Pitts at the Tampa show in Jan of 2013 and learned of a bunk coach being built on spec 1480 for the Daytona race. We received photos and had several conversations with him. We were pleased to see Newell had a bunk style coach as a standard offering so it would not be an anomaly if we had one of them. Our search of the Prevost found very few if any have been made and 4 slides was out on a Provost design as well as at least 500k more. It took a bit of time for me to get reprogrammed about Prevost being the best, the ultimate, ect. We finally had a chance to look at and drive 1480 in August and decided that would be great for us only to learn the following day it was sold. At this point we had drank the Newell cool aid. In September we came agreement to have a coach built. We were at camp Newell dropping off our coach and beginning the process of having 1517 built the end of October. It took about 3.5 days to pick out the design and finishes. Always wanted to build one but was not planning it so soon.

The coach start date was January 6th and Newell started on that day. It is a very exciting and daunting process. The folks at Newell have been awesome to work with and every time we ask something the answers have been sure we can do that.