[Dawn] Hey everyone, it's Randy, Dawn and a Marathon Coach.
And guess where we are... it's not warm, sunny Florida, but it's the beautiful state of Oregon
and what a treat it is... we can't wait to show you – we're down in the service area,
so stick around for this video.
And so we are located in Coburg, Oregon, where the headquarters to Marathon Coach is located.
[Randy] Yeah, what's really cool is, we want to show you the variety of the work that they do here.
I think they have 23 employees here.
[Dawn] That's just service!
[Randy] That's just service, so 275 total Marathon employees, and here in service alone,
they have 8 full bays, and it's amazing some of the things they can do, so I think when
you think of a Marathon, what you have to think of, is something that you can do a lot
of remodeling, and we'll show you some of the coaches, we'll show you some of the things
they do here.
And I think you'll really enjoy it.
So come on, let's take a look.
[Dawn] Let's go check it out.
Here we are in front of a 1996 Marathon Prevost.
[Randy] Yep, and a '99, so the cool thing about the Prevost shell – it's made to go
a million miles, and the way Marathon builds this product, it lasts forever, and one of
the cool things is, you can go in, you can take one of these XL non-slides –
we call them "rivet coaches" – they're kind of nostalgic.
But a lot of them still on the road and people really love them.
And what you can do is, you can still totally remodel the interior of them, you can change
the outside – I think you'll see on one of these, they're putting new rub rails on them.
You can still get all the parts.
You can actually update the headlights in these coaches and make them new, you can go
to LED, you can go to a newer look.
A lot of things you can do to these old XLs.
Still a large demand for the old Marathons, even in the early '90s all the way up to 2000
when they started doing slides.
It's kind of cool to see what they can do here and these guys are super talented.
Maybe later we'll show you some of the areas of the factory where they do some of the work.
Here you have two coaches from the '90s still on the road, people still enjoying them and
still being remodeled and updated.
So that's the really cool thing about it.
Dawn and I kind of have a passion for the riveted coach.
It's something that we – we just love these older coaches.
[Dawn] Yeah, they totally catch our eye when they come around the corner.
[Randy] Yeah they do.
Let's take a look at some other ones.
So here we are in front of coach 1265, it's a 2017.
[Dawn] Quad slide...
[Randy] Quad slide, bath and a half...
[Dawn] Great floor plan.
[Randy] Yeah, great floor plan.
Even though it's a '17, there's still some changes happening, so before we put them for
sale, sometimes we go in and we update some things and we change some things around from
what it originally started with.
We'll take you in and kind of show you the chaos, a little bit of chaos that happens
inside the coach when they replace the floor because they gotta pull a lot of the furniture,
the chairs, the booth, all that has to come up.
So we'll take you in and show you a little bit of what goes on when they do this kind of work.
[Dawn] So here we are in coach 1265, and this is the quad slide.
You can see all of the work being done.
[Randy] All the furniture, they have to pull all the furniture up.
[Dawn] It's a process, for sure.
It's like a big jigsaw puzzle. And I noticed that the ceiling is down in here.
[Randy] Yeah you know I noticed that too and I wondered why they're doing the floor and
yet they have the ceiling out so I asked that question, and they explained that to me,
and if you'll notice, if you go into a Marathon that's all done, you'll notice there's like
a cabinet column that comes down, and like you can see over there, there's a column missing.
Well, they need to remove those columns to install the new flooring.
You can't put molding around – so everything sits on top of the floor.
And like you said, it's a puzzle.
And this is like a piece of that puzzle, and it has all these velcro dots on it.
So basically they can just literally pull the ceiling down and then snap it back up,
almost like a puzzle, so not only – so when you do the flooring – does the furniture
have to come up, the cabinet columns have to come out, but you also need to pull the ceiling out.
But these guys have been doing this so long and they understand how it works.
Doesn't take that terribly long for them to pull all this down and get the cabinets out.
It's just really kind of cool for us to be able to show all of you kind of the ins and outs
of what the service techs do here at Marathon.
[Dawn] While you're here having service done on your coach, they have this beautiful lounge,
you could relax, watch a little TV, there's plenty of space here.
[Randy] Yeah, and lots of... it's really cool.
They have lots of windows, it makes it enjoyable to be here, they have a little desk, so if
you do business while you're on the road, they've got a little desk set up, with a phone...
[Dawn] A little work area...
[Randy] A little work area, they have two separate restrooms up here, they've got a
little kitchenette over there, they've got lots of reading material... lots of stuff.
Just very comfortable.
If you're bringing your coach here and they're working on it during the day, you maybe hang
out up here and then if they can pull the coach out, they actually have a campground here.
[Dawn] It's very convenient. [Randy] Very convenient.
So even if you come a few days early, or you are not ready to leave, there's a place for
you to stay here.
Marathon really goes out of their way to make your experience not only on the road very
comfortable, but when you're here having service done that is, it's very comfortable for you here.
You're on the second floor, so it's kind of quiet up here, which is kind of nice, so very enjoyable.
We think it's a great place to hang out, if you have to.
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