The chassis is a truck chassis and it rode like one. “If you can drive this, you can drive anything”, he said, and he was right. I had just gotten my license, and the old man “threw” me behind the wheel. When I was a teen, he “graduated” to the motor home set, with a unit EXACTLY like this. The old man pulled trailer campers for years when I was a kid. Both our families had campers of some sort. Have any of you ever owned an older Winnebago like this? Or, any motorhome? It has good tires and a 4-year old awning that’s probably worth a good portion of the asking price. They say that this motorhome “starts and drives”, and it looks like it has 99,331 miles on it, or that’s what the odometer currently shows. A bonus is that it comes with a fairly new Generac generator with just 250 hours on it. Hopefully that wouldn’t be hard to repair. They mention that the roof has a bit of damage which you can sort of see in this photo. ![]() Expect to get around 7 mpg with this l’il rig. This one, being a D-18, has the 318 Dodge V8. There are no interior photos or engine photos, unfortunately. We had a 1969 Winnebago pickup camper that my mom and dad bought brand new but we secretly always wanted a little Winnebago motorhome like this one, that would have been quite a step up. I like the look of these square-edged windows, it just adds to the vintage feel for me. A heck of a camping machine for $6,700 in 1972! In 1973 they modernized the look a bit with rounded window corners (rounded corners?!) instead of the square corners seen on this one. No matter which configuration, length, or drivetrain choice you settled on, these came standard with power brakes, power steering, dual rear wheels, and on the interior they had a water heater, shower, pressurized water system, 3-burner stove with oven, forced-air furnace, gas/electric refrigerator, etc. The D-18 (18-feet, side dinette, Dodge 318 V8), the D-20/C-20 (20-feet, side dinette, Dodge 318 or Chevy 350 drivetrain), and the D-20RD/C-20RD (20-feet, rear dinette, Dodge 318 or Chevy 350 drivetrain)! I may run and look at this one as soon as I can get in touch with the seller, just for my own curiosity. ![]() ![]() Winnebago Braves came in three models, but with a twist: 20-footers had the option of either Dodge or Chevy drivetrains. I think this is an D-18 model, as in an 18-footer, but I’m not positive and there is no mention of it in the ad. ![]() The seller is asking a very reasonable $800 or best offer for this one! I would venture that most of the changes would be increased emmissions related items but, I would present that someone with more experience with the '76 year.Here’s a cool little rig, it’s a 1972 Winnebago Brave and it’s on Craigslist in East Bethel, Minnesota, about 30 miles north of Minneapolis. The main, noticeable one is that, in 1976, the front window and eyebrow was angled slightly rearward instead of forward. There really wasn't very much change at all from 74 - 76. I would honestly say that the Chilton's is a good, basic version but the best references for complete info are a combination of the Dodge Shop Manual, the body manual, and any manuals you can find in our manuals & diagrams section (free to Full and Life Members) which are specific to the stove, fridge, roof a/c, furnace, etc as you have and the operator's manual as well (free to all members). It also has a very abbreviated section on the body but, nowhere near as in depth as the Eyebrow Winnebago body manual has (also in the club store). However, it does have the basic info on the OEM roof air and refrigerator systems with good troubleshooting guides. It presents most of the same info found in the Dodge shop manual but in a different format and in an abbreviated manner, and it doesn't have the torque tables and isn't quite as in-depth or have the exploded diagrams found in the shop manual. The pages are physically smaller than the shop manual and the amount of info per page is less.
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