Michal Bailey's pride and joy - Christine

Christine 1975 Model

Keith's 1988 "Casper"

Gary & Galilee Guess' 1981 Silver Eagle, 45 ft. 2 slide out's,
5 bed room bath and 1/2

1978 Silver Eagle (VIN 19-934)… originally purchased by country song writer, singer and actor Jerry Reed before Smokey and the Bandit II was filmed. I guess he got tired of living in trailers. It’s a 40 ft. model 05 still in its original body configuration with the upper windshield. The original destination sign reading “Snowman”, “Amos Moses”, etc, was still installed when I got the bus and is now on my garage wall for safekeeping. The bus was sold in 1996 to Sheriff Randall Shelton, Davidson County, Tennessee, and converted from entertainer to RV configuration. I am the third owner. It has a 12.5 Onan “quiet” diesel APU, an 18 gallon hot water tank and a three-ton split residential HVAC unit in addition to the original Carrier over-the-road AC. Rigged for 220V, 50 amp external power (no LPG), it has an electric range/oven, microwave, 3 TV sets, 2 tuners (plus Sirius), rear-view CCTV, a 5-foot tub and queen sleep-number bed. The furniture is all FlexSteel. The interior work was done by Triple-T Coach, Nashville, and the low voltage controls by East Coast Electronics. The exterior airbrush work was done by “Harry-Did-It”, Joelton, TN.

My bride and I, plus the three dogs and a cat took off last fall and spent a month on the road… traveling to the west coast on I-40 and as much of old Route 66 as was still left after we hit Amarillo. We got to California, turned right and went north, then headed east on I-80 through Nevada and Wyoming, down through Colorado, Kansas , Oklahoma, Arkansas and eventually home. No schedule, no problems, other than some pretty stout winds in Wyoming. If we saw something interesting, we would stop and look. One day we only made 65 miles… we did a lot of looking that day. When we got tired, we would pull over and plug in somewhere. I truthfully thought we would be hassled out west about the age of the bus in some of the upscale RV parks, but I guess the Old Girl looks stately enough so that issue did not come up!


She still turns a lot of heads on the highway!

The bus has only 340K miles and the suspension is in excellent shape, as is the aluminum. The original Alcoa wheels are still on the bus (with stickers) and are in excellent shape as well. The original 318 Detroit is coupled with a 5-speed manual transmission. Having looked for an Eagle for some 10 years, and found them to be ragged out or out of our price range, we finally found the bus we wanted at Bus-For-Sale in Nashville. My wife and I drove to Nashville to take a look, bought it, and I somehow conned her into driving our truck back home behind the bus the same day. I think she has still not forgiven me for that 24-hour trip, but I’m working on it.

Sirremus Robinson has sent in photos of his 1983 Silver Eagle Coach, still used in line service and charters and still passes New York DOT, the hardest to pass in the USA.
An 86 model is in restoration and will be posted soon........