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- Hey, good morning, everyone.
Welcome to "Marathon Mondays with Mal."
We're in the parts room here at the mothership here
in Coburg, Oregon.
There's a lot going on.
It's Monday morning.
Every Monday at Marathon,
that's why we choose to do "Marathon Mondays."
Not because it goes with the triple M,
but because there's so much going on Monday mornings
at Marathon from our service department to our production,
and that starts both sides, production and service.
Starts with the parts room.
Our parts room has a lot of resources,
and that's what I want to show you this morning and stay
with us because I'm gonna tease.
John and I are gonna walk right into Coach 1347.
That's the latest Marathon to be completed.
It's being decored this morning.
So we're not gonna look at it completely,
but I'm gonna show you
and kind of tease what's coming up next Monday.
The parts department.
We're just gonna walk through here.
I want to show you a kind of everything that's in here.
I look up here and I see
the Corvette tail lights.
This is pretty cool.
This is part 113045.
These are the tail lights that you'll see on a 10
or 12 year old Marathon.
I think a lot of you guys know that out there.
That's kinda cool.
And it's literally Corvette tail lights.
A lot of people refer to them as that,
but that's exactly what they are.
John, let's walk this way.
The parts department is one of those resources,
wherever you are in the United States,
we can FedEx a part to you.
And we have a ton of parts in here.
This room of parts goes all the way down
this side of the building.
I mean,
it's so, it's so crazy to look at all the belts,
dash air conditioning units.
We're not gonna walk through every aisle,
but I wanted you to see kind of the resources
that are in this department.
And not only that,
but I guess I'm the one walking backwards, John.
That's okay.
We, you know, here's some bedding.
So as you guys know in a Marathon Coach,
the beds are custom just like everything else.
So you'll see custom sizes.
These are actually the custom linen collection for Marathon.
It's a sheet size.
It's a junior king with tapered
12 inch corners.
That's something that we do quite often is stock those here.
And then we're in more parts here.
Let's just walk down this first aisle, John,
and take a look.
We won't go too fast.
Hope the WiFi is handling us back here in the depths.
It's really cool to see here's more fan belts, seals.
That's a slide seal,
some chrome parts.
What do we have here?
This is just like a powder-coated grating,
and everything has it's, everything's,
you know, this is a cabinet.
So like an under-cabinet grating.
It's been powder coated.
It's just a replacement for that.
Wrap it up with the paper there.
That's go, yeah, let's go down here, John.
Slide tracks.
More steel parts.
This has been powder coated.
What is this?
It's a plate mount.
This looks maybe for a TV.
But the reason I'm in here today and illustrating this
is because if you are out there and you need parts
for you coach owners, call Marathon Service Departments,
call your, call your service department,
whether it be Florida, Texas, or here in Coburg, Oregon.
We have parts on hand that we can send you right away.
Let's go down this one.
This one looks busy.
Look at all these brass fittings, sleeve brass 7/8 inch.
Hoses,
digital to analog converters,
hose fittings, all kinds of stuff.
Here's some steering wheels.
Yeah, very cool.
Smart wheels.
Look at that.
If you need a new Prevost steering wheel, we got it all.
We've got them with leather wrap.
We've got them with black carbon fiber finish.
There's some smart controls for the steering wheels.
And this room also services our production floor
with everything from cleaners to,
you know,
adhesives, different parts that they're gonna need
for production.
And then if we take right out this door,
it takes us right out to the production floor.
And so from this area,
we're gonna stand right here and let the WiFi readjust.
From this area, if you did a 360,
you're able to see all the way down to the other side
of the building.
That's the cabinet shop down there
for those of you who know the cabinet shop.
You've got shipping and receiving over here
on the west side of the building.
Of course, the main production floor right here.
If you looked up in the corner,
you've got arguably the best upholstery department
in the nation.
When's the last time you saw upholstery coming out of a shop
that good?
I don't think you have.
And then right above us,
and you don't have to show that necessarily, John,
you've got marketing, engineering, sales,
design.
And speaking of design,
we're gonna tease Coach 1347 this morning.
1347 is the latest Marathon.
And it is for sale.
This one is not spoken for, which is a rarity these days.
The coaches are selling so quickly that
it's, they don't even get to completion.
And this one is nearing completion.
Santara designed this coach.
She is the designer on this coach,
and she is in there decoring it.
So what we're gonna do is we're just gonna get
a little peek of it.
Let's go take a look.
We're only gonna walk right into the entry of the coach,
'cause I don't want to give it all away until next Monday.
So I'll let John just come right in here
and take a quick peak at the salon.
1347 is an H3 double slide.
And it is absolutely beautiful.
Santara is back there.
She's doing the decor in the bedspread, the bed.
I was really impressed with the bedspread on this
and all of the finishings in the bedroom,
and it really brought the coach together.
So I'm not gonna show it to you until next Monday,
but I want you guys to not miss that show
because this is a beautiful coach, Coach 1347 next, Monday.
All right, John.
Let's, let's boogie out.
And because we've kind of run short today,
it wouldn't be like me to just, oh,
do you have a question there? - Yep.
- Okay.
So we're gonna go over to Abigail for a question.
We're going to turn her mic up and go ahead, Abigail.
What do you got?
- So a couple of questions about parts.
It says being a converter with mostly Prevost units,
do a bunch of the parts include Prevost certified parts?
- Yes, absolutely.
We do carry some Prevost parts.
So if you're looking for a Prevost part,
not just a Marathon part,
feel free to reach out to us because if we don't have it,
we can access it.
Good question.
Who, who asked that question 'cause that's a good one?
- Oh yeah, I should've called them out.
That's Brian Zinkman.
- I know Brian.
I know Brian.
He's been here.
He's toured the facility.
Brian, I hope your travels are going well.
Yes, absolutely.
If you're looking for a Prevost part,
you can either access it through Prevost,
or you can also call Marathon Service,
and we can access it for you.
Let's walk this way as we any more,
any more questions that are?
- [Abigail] Well, someone Kathy Wilson said,
please do a segment on hooking up and running the systems
on a Marathon Coach, please.
So maybe some of the wiring,
some of the details, and the inner mechanism.
- Okay, so she's asking a question on systems.
We're gonna be doing a whole thing where we're gonna
go through a lot of systems.
Oh, we were talking with Pete Sutton,
the Head of Marketing over the last couple of weeks,
and one of the things we're gonna do
over the next six months is we're gonna stagger some shows
to go over the systems from hooking up the coach,
to getting the coach ready for travel, the sewer system,
water, electrical, things like that.
We're not gonna focus too much on the nuts and bolts,
and I'm gonna tell you why.
Because the nuts and bolts are for the owners
when they take delivery of a coach
or their learning their coach,
that type of thing happens when you are owning a coach.
If you are a coach owner,
we can also help you learn that coach.
But to do it here on these short videos
every Monday morning,
the in-depth things would be a little too in-depth.
I like that, okay.
So to close out the show,
we're just gonna show you this advantage,
this vantage point, advantage, vantage point
from the production floor.
I'm gonna walk backwards.
So let me know if I'm going to run into anything, John.
Here on the production floor,
there's a lot going on,
and we're going to stop kind of here in the middle.
So you can kind of see everything that's going on.
Lots of coaches being built.
1345 is right next to me, 1352, that's a Bunk Coach
coming to us in about a month.
So lots going on on the production floor.
There's that H3 quad-slide shell, headed to paint.
Other than that, it's,
we're getting ready to go down to Indio.
Jim Coughlin and I will be down there.
We've got a couple of events down there.
There's a Halloween event, of course, on October 31st.
And that's gonna be at Motorcoach Country Club.
And then across the street
on Avenue 48 is Outdoor Resorts Indio.
At Outdoor Resorts Indio on Saturday the 13th,
Marathon is hosting a kickoff event for the season.
That's gonna be awesome.
And then I just got word that we will be during the season,
I believe in well, during the season,
after the first of the year,
we are gonna be hosting a barbecue party
over at Desert Shores.
So we got all kinds of things going, you guys.
It's really exciting to head down to the desert
and show the latest from Marathon, and quite frankly,
sell more coaches or at least market more coaches.
Let me know if you're looking to get into a Marathon
because they're selling as fast as we can build them.
Be yourself and do good things.
And email me at malw, malw@marathoncoach.com.
Have a good week.
We'll see you next Monday.
And don't forget Coach 1347.
The latest from Marathon, H3 double slide
with beautiful style, lots of storage in that floor plan.
You guys know it well.
I'm gonna get out of here and enjoy your Monday.
Be safe.
Take care.
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