Hey good morning everyone! Welcome to Marathon Mondays with Mal. Mal Williams here,
live from the World Headquarters of Marathon Coach.
It's a beautiful, a little bit cold, morning here in Coburg, and I tell you
what we're gonna do... I've been excited about this show.
I know a lot of you have been, too. I get a lot of e-mails... I get a lot of emails over the
last two years about trailers. We're gonna get into a trailer today.
We're going to talk a little bit about that trailer, we're gonna talk a little bit
more about it in a couple of weeks, but you know, I wanted to tell you first: I was
talking with the owner of this trailer and getting kind of all the science
behind it, and it was an eye-opener to me because I had no idea everything that
goes into building, spec'ing out a trailer. It's a... it's a little
overcast out here in Coburg, we're gonna head on inside
and we're gonna talk about it and so let's head on. I hope everyone had a good weekend.
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Here it is, this is... coach 1291. We know it well, Bernie and Deb's coach.
Coach 1291 stacker trailer. There's never been a trailer... I'm willing
to go out on a... although after learning about this trailer, I'm gonna go out on a limb:
there has never been a trailer for a Marathon Coach spec'd out this far in depth
and this detailed. This trailer is designed exactly to mirror-image, to mimic,
the side of the bus it is designed to be an extension of. Coach 1291.
We're in the service department here, so it's a little difficult to kind of see everything
but I wanted everyone to see it prior to it going to paint.
Now as you can see... Todd can you see the full stainless sides? So here's the
deal you guys, this is not something that you can just go and buy off-the-shelf.
There is a fabricator in Southern California, they built these custom for
this trailer and here's why they don't exist. This is designed, like I said,
to mirror the coach. If you look at this line right here,
Bernie told me, said this is the paint... this is the line right here for the coach
and the paint's going to come in through here. This is the paint line.
These panels are exactly like the bus panels from Prevost that's on
Coach 1291. This fabricator in Southern California -- we'll probably learn a little
bit more about him on another episode -- but he has the dies to make these,
and look at them. You can describe them in only one way: artwork. I'm gonna try and
get out of the reflection of them. This coach, that coach 1291 -- we know it well --
is a beautiful coach. Now this trailer is exactly the dimensions of Coach 1291.
102 wide 12-6 tall.
The height and width (I hope I got those dimensions right) the height and width
are exactly the same as Coach 1291. That's gonna make this bus and trailer
look exactly the same. Let's come back this way Todd, this is what it looks like
prior to going to paint. I've gotten tons of emails over the last couple of years
since we've been doing Marathon Mondays about trailers and here's how Marathon
does trailers. Spec it out and bring it to us, we will work on it and
we will customize it and we will paint it for you and that's exactly what
Bernie and Debbie are doing with this trailer. I'm not gonna get into the inside of it
because that's for another show. There's so much going on inside there.
The lift system in there is, to use a term state-of-the-art. Something that really
was an eye-opener for me also, the "shiny heiny" on the back. Isn't that beautiful?
It almost looks like you got two early 30s Fords in there, golf carts.
This golf cart does fit inside there amongst many other items. But let's look
a little bit closer at some of the options that were chosen for this trailer.
All of this is an option, so you've got the header is a mirror also and all the way
down the sides. Now take a look at this rub rail down here. This rub rail did
look just like this one up here. Let me give you a second, Todd, to go look at the
very top. And the owner, one thing he wanted to do on the bottom here was he wanted
to make sure that it was set up to for longevity of the product. So it's been
buffed and powder-coated and it will always look this good, because they took
the time to do that. That's fantastic. There's so much about this trailer we're
gonna be able to talk about. I'm just really glad that we got to see it before
it went to paint the full... the way that it's gonna extend through the coach.
The stainless is flawless on this coach. Now, one thing that you can't see until
you're driving down the road is the lighting system on this trailer.
This is not just a seven pin system like a lot of trailers are. The lights are mirrored
just like the trailer, the lights mirror, or they mimic, the coach exactly.
That takes a lot of wiring, that takes a lot of time and effort into this trailer.
I'm really excited about it. I know a lot of you guys that are watching are, too.
We've talked a lot about... I've heard a lot about trailers, and I've never
seen a trailer so in-depth and so well thought-out and we're just looking at
the exterior and the reason we're looking at the exterior is because it's
going to look exactly like 1291 exterior, and that's why the owners took the time
to get the stainless to the correct height, the panels of the stainless to be
the correct length, all the seams are in the right place.
See this piece right here? It's not polished yet. It will be.
That covers a seam right there.
I've learned a lot about trailers over the last couple days in anticipation of
being able to show you guys this, and we're not even on the inside of it yet.
And that's gonna be an exciting episode, that we're gonna see when the trailer
comes out of paint. It is exactly the correct height and width of Coach 1291.
Those corrugated sides of this trailer are just beautiful, and to find someone
who has the dies who has the talent and the dies to be able to bend those pieces
and make them look that good... truly an art form. And it literally does mimic the
side of 1291. I saw it pull in here when Bernie and Debbie showed up at Marathon Coburg
to drop it off for paint and so it'll be exciting to see in the next
couple of weeks. It's one thing we're going to do: we'll do a reveal of it
out of paint. But I wanted you to see what it looked like prior to paint ,
because even prior to paint I think it's beautiful. It's a solid black
up top with a lot of mirror, a lot of... a lot of the stainless, it's just beautiful.
Well built and well spec'd out. Before we get going... don't forget go to
Marathon's page and like it. Go to Marathon Mondays with Mal's facebook page
and like it. We're doing a lot more content on there. I'm going to throw a
lot more ideas and thoughts and videos and pictures at you guys, and another
thing we're gonna do in the coming weeks is continue our series that we started
just the other week on the Prevost chassis. We want to get a little bit more
in depth on why the Prevost chassis and why it is superior to other chassis
that are in the RV industry. Before we go, Miki, is there anything that
we should address today? [Miki] People are excited about seeing the inside. [Mal] Good, and they will!
Wait till you see the inside! I saw this thing
down in the Palm Springs area, down in the desert. It's a marvel, it is...
it's beautiful. It's well-thought-out. A lot of time -- that's probably the biggest
thing I can tell you -- is from my knowledge -- Bernie put a lot of time
into researching exactly what he wanted so that things can be transported
properly, safely and aesthetically. There's nothing like it on the inside.
It is just a really cool system that is inside here.
[Miki] And then Robert Joyce wants to know, if they'll be able to see it with the coach?
[Mal] Yes! That is one thing
that I talked to Bernie and Debbie about. Yes, Robert. We will be able to see
the coach and the trailer driving in front of the camera. That is one thing
that's important to me, because seeing it standing still, Miki, it's not as dynamic
as seeing a bus drive by you. Beautiful paint job driving by you,
now imagine something that was designed specifically to extend off the back side of 1291.
Height, width, paint job, the stainless steel. This is what
coolness is all about. We'll get... well I'm going to talk a little bit about that
later: the "cool" factor of this. But yeah, we will see it together. We will get...
we will basically get the grits and the gravy of this coach and trailer together,
and be able to see it in all of its glory when it's done, I would think in
a couple of weeks. So don't miss an episode of Marathon Mondays, you guys,
because there's always something new. There's nothing like a Marathon coach.
I don't have to tell you that. There's a lot of... there's some companies
out there that build other luxury RVs. I don't think there is nothing better than
a Marathon coach and that's why Marathon Mondays the show exists so that you can
see behind the scenes of what is happening at Marathon and how far
in depth we go to make sure that the customers and the clients of Marathon
get to enjoy their coaches and trailers. So I'm excited.
Anything else going on? It's a little chilly, I'm like wringing my hands.
[Miki] There are people with questions about the Dept. of Transportation,
and maybe you could just encourage them to go to the website?
[Mal] Absolutely, yeah!
Okay so you're asking questions about the Department of Transportation.
Here's the deal, guys. Check with your local Department of Transportation.
They're all different. Check with your DMV for their rules,
check with your Department of Transportation for their rules.
Different roads, different highways different counties, different states, they're all different.
I can't go into that because, guess what:
I barely know much about this trailer, I had to learn about this trailer,
so the laws that involve driving, don't ask me. I wish I knew, but there's so many
different laws, in so many different counties, in so many different states
in our country, that I just don't know and that being said, you know, check with
your local Department of Transportation. They will know best, so... gosh, what else
is going on this week? 1302 has got a couple of weeks left.
Exciting to see what Jay Graham's got there. Speaking of Jay Graham,
he's returning today from Prevost. Someone we're gonna talk to about... when we talk
about the chassis, when we talk about what he learned up in Quebec, Canada,
I'm excited to pull Jay in and learn a lot from Jay. That's a benefit of having such
an experienced engineering team that we have here, is that we have the ability to
learn from a lot of those guys. A lot of experience, a lot of creativity
and I guess let's walk back over here, coach 1031, behind me. Coach 1031 is still
for sale, yep! Let me know! MalW@marathoncoach.com
Beautiful coach, great floor plan, you can see it on our website.
Anyway, 1291's trailer. That's it, everybody. I'm gonna
sign off, because really we could talk so much about the trailer as it sits,
but we're going to... or we're gonna wait until it's painted and it's in all of
its glory. We're gonna get into the axles, we're gonna get into the lighting....
Oh, the ground lighting in this. Man, I'm glad I didn't forget that! Here's the deal:
this thing has ground lights. So basically the lights on the bottom,
just like the coach, all the way around it so not only is it marrying it by height and
width, and the the sides of it, but underneath it has lighting, it has custom
lighting to mirror the custom lighting under coach 1291. Imagine that at night,
rolling up your block. Thanks for watching! Be yourself and do good things.
I'm gonna get out of here. I think I'm gonna go have some breakfast.
Usually, I say "coffee" but someone said let's go out breakfast. I like that idea.
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Take care, I'm out of here.