Acquired more than $200,000 in parts and supplies from Riverside, Calif.-based Fleetwood as part of a new program to enable travel trailers for sale dallas texas Outdoors RV to repair orphaned Fleetwood Prowler, Wilderness, Terry, Mallard and Backpack travel trailers.
Built a 40,000-square-foot chassis shop adjacent to Northwood s factory in La Grande, travel trailers for sale dallas texas leasing part of it to axle manufacturer Al-Ko Kober, to supply chassis for both Northwood and Outdoors RV products.
This is my job, Nash told RVBusiness . This is what I love doing. Whether there are half as many people in the business when this is all over with, it s not going to be me that is going to be gone. We have been low key about spending money, and we socked a lot away so that we can do what we need to do.
The new chassis facility and recently created Outdoors RV lines greatly increase Nash s presence as a regional manufacturer in the Northwest U.S. and Western Canada. travel trailers for sale dallas texas Outdoors RV also puts Nash in the entry-level and lightweight towable markets for the first time.
Outdoors RV has completed 50 units and signed up about 40 dealers since going into production May 19 with the entry-level CreekSide (wood and aluminum), lightweight TamarackTrail (aluminum and fiberglass), TimberRidge (aluminum and laminated fiberglass) and luxury lightweight WindRiver (aluminum and laminated fiberglass) travel trailers. Base MSRPs range from $15,000 for the CreekSide to $29,000 for WindRiver.
While Nash has focused recently on getting the Outdoors operation up and running, he reported that sales of Northwood s Nash and Arctic Fox travel trailers and fifth-wheels, Arctic Fox truck campers and Desert Fox sport utility RVs have increased substantially from a year ago.
Production of the newly named Outdoors units CreekSide, TamarackTrail, TimberRidge and WindRiver travel trailers is expected to result in $28 million to $30 million in sales the first year, according to Nash, the former general manager in the early 1990s of the Fleetwood La Grande plant that he bought for just over $2 million.
We are changing some things to make the product more bulletproof, Nash said, noting that front caps on Outdoors RV products will be fiberglass instead of ABS to better withstand cold temperatures. Units also will be better insulated and equipped with heated and enclosed holding tanks while radius rubber roofs have replaced travel trailers for sale dallas texas fiberglass roofs for the same reason.
We want to make sure our stuff is more durable, Nash said. Our whole thrust is that customer want units that will stay together, and they want companies that stay together. If the customers aren t happy, you re toast.
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