Chinook Motorhome (1998)
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| Condition: | Used |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Make: | Chinook |
| Model: | Concourse |
| Vehicle Title: | Clean |
| Mileage: | 73000 |
| Fuel Type: | Gas |
Wickenburg, Arizona, United States
Vehicle description
1998 Bonneville Chinook Motorhome. With a true Racing History. This is truly One of a kind. A beautiful well-kept example of Motor Home History. This Chinook has been in our private collection for 17 years. It is ready now for the trip of your lifetime. If you have never had the pleasure of traveling in a Chinook or just walking threw one. You owe it to yourself to experience it at lease once. When you walk in you can feel the quality of how it"s made. It feels rock solid. Our Bonneville Chinook has the powerful Triton V10. Perfect for towing. It has 73000 original miles. It has been regularly serviced.It hasn"t been just sitting around either. We sent it in for it"s last service just after our last trip to Colorado this winter. It has everything you would expect in a luxury motor home of its day. Please Serious Buyers Only. If you have questions or would like to make an apt see in person call.Steve or Barb at 267-772-1050On August 16, 1998, history was made as the world’s fastest motorhome would set a land speed record on the powdery Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Sanctioned by the Southern California Racing Association, a Yakima-built and specially-modified Chinook Concourse, painted in a bright orange racing stripe pattern and sporting an air scoop on its hood, rumbled down the three mile course with Dan Lukehart at the wheel.The Chinook team reportedly had to throw out more than just the kitchen sink; most of the Concourse had been gutted out, from the rooftop air conditioner to the sofa, dinette table, stove, refrigerator, cabinets, wet bath and holding tanks. In its place, a custom built roll cage was installed in the driver’s cab as Dan Lukehart would speed to a recorded 99.776 miles per hour in three minutes time to break the old record of 97.613 mph, set May 16, 1970 by a 26-foot, 4-1/2 ton, Oldsmobile Toronado-powered Travoy, built by Ramona Motor Coach Company of San Jacinto, Calif. at El Mirage Dry Lake, Calif.The Chinook’s LSR was set at a density altitude of 5,384 feet. Adjusting to sea level the speed would have been 108 mph.“We are extremely pleased with the results and we have learned a great deal from this project. With a cross wind of 15 mph, the Chinook proved very stable at 100 mph and that was what we wanted to prove – that a motorhome, if manufactured correctly, and on the right platform, can be extremely safe at any speed,” said Charles McGhee, vice president of sales at Trailwagons, Inc. “We could have gone faster,” said Dan Lukehart, “but the Triton V-10’s computer could not adjust itself to the altitude and we were running with a very rich mixture. Unfortunately, we did not have the electronic equipment to make the necessary adjustments.”Eventually, Lukehart would break his own mark with the assistance of a Banks Performance System in the Chinook Concourse, driving it to an all-time top speed of 114 mph – a feat that had not been matched or broken in nearly a decade’s timeEditor’s Note: There’s debate over a Dyno Sources tuned GMC Transmode not being considered a true motorhome, since it served as a Command Post for the Tampa Bay Fire Department. It was powered by a 454 V-8 setting a record of 102.76 mph at Bonneville on Sept. 14, 2006. However, both records were clearly broken in 2010 by a Hymer Car motorhome, tuned by Goldschmitt and powered by an economical 2.3-litre Multijet engine with an innovative gas-diesel drive – reaching more than 200km/h (124 miles/hour).Hymer and Goldschmitt have obtained approval for a record attempt in spring 2011 on the test track in Papenburg, Northern Germany to make it into the Guinness Book of Records with a symbolic speed of 230km/h from standstill within exactly 1000 meters – 200km/h for the title of the fastest motorhome, and then 30km/h is an extra one for every year of the Goldschmitt company.Since then, a Fiat Dobro fitted out as a Class B motorhome, clocked 141.3 miles per hour in 2015 to earn Guinness World Record title recognition. Equipped with a two-burner stove, refrigerator and toilet, the rig had been listed for sale on but bidders failed to reach the reserved price.“While the European record and engine are indeed impressive, there is a significant difference between the Concourse and this rig,” stated Duncan Fowler, a Chinook RV owner. “The Concourse is significantly larger, bulkier and I suspect heavier than this (vehicle that broke the) record.” After this amazing Run for a Bonneville Salt Flat Record. The Chinook was painstakingly restored to the origonal motor home interior. Everything working just as it was ment to.