- 1988 Eldorado (EMC) 'Renaissance' (too old to reply) JD 2007-06-18 07:28:13 UTC. Well, went ahead and did it!!! Bought a used Eldorado 'Renaissance' 1988 model. (NOT a 'Starfire'). Seller was a local guy whom I've known for a lot of years. He's a great guy and runs a very! Profitable local business. ( too heavy for my local RV.
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- 1988 EMC ELDORADO - $3000 (Wichita) 1988 34 ft. ELDORADO EMC class a moter home. 1988 Bounder 34' Motorhome (own your own RV home) $2K OBO - $2000 (Oxnard) 1988 Bounder 34' Motorhome (own your own RV home). 454 Chevy engine with Thorley headers.Call me - I do not answer email or texts 8 0 5 3 0- 2 - 7 - 0 - 1 - 7 This is a 34 foot 1988.
Bought a used Eldorado 'Renaissance' 1988 model. (NOT a 'Starfire').
Seller was a local guy whom I've known for a lot of years. He's a
great guy and runs a very! profitable local business . This was his
pet project for the last few years. He's the sort of person who liked
the 60's so much he just sort of decided to stay there. He's been
throwing $$ at this RV in large handfuls for some time now, not
because he had to... just because he could and it was his 'toy' .....
The list of upgrades and replacements is quite amazing.
This model was built on a John Deere frame ( too heavy for my local RV
guy's license. Had to have it checked and serviced at a heavy truck
shop).
The original fridge died so last fall he replaced it with the best
top of the line double door that Dometic has.
It has two furnaces. One (original) started to act up ( age related
burner probs) so he replaced it and the other one too 'while he was at
it'. Heat ducted to the basement holding tanks.
His wife didn't like to Microwave that was in it so he put in a new
high end convection microwave.
Installed onboard computer with GPS nav.
6 brand new 19.5' tires ( about 10k km on them).
There was a 'noise' in the back end that he wanted to track down.
Turned out to be a minor suspension issue but in the 'search process',
put brand new ring gear in the differential.
Didn't like the genny that was in the rig so he replaced it with a
brand spanking new Honda 4.5 kw 'ultra low noise' set. As I write
this, the genny only has 68 hours on the run clock.
Completely rust coated/undercoated every year since new.
All new brakes all around last fall.
Didn't like the old 'boxy' B/W backup camera so swapped in a new high
res colour camera and monitor.
He installed a Doran remote tire pressure monitor system.
Pulled out the in-dash radio and installed an very high end Alpine
radio/CD.
It has full seat belt accommodations for driver + 9 passengers.
His wife didn't like the entry step so he installed a new 'Kwikstep'.
Wife didn't like the amount of hot water (electric heater element was
getting weak) so he pulled the whole old heater put in a brand new
'autoselect' extra insulated hot water heater with all new lines and
bypass valve.
65,000 km (40K miles) on the frame and only 30,000 km (18k miles) on
the engine/tranny.
Why so few on the powerplant?
Well, originally it came with a 460 gas engine on a Ford tranny. But
he doesn't like gas engines or Ford. All his business fleet trucks are
Cummins diesel powered. And, what the heck ... one of the trucks got
totaled with only 10K km on the Cummins Turbo 5.9, so he swapped out
the engines. Had to have a custom made intercooler and a whole bunch
of stuff. Has a 'Banks' pack on the diesel. The 'swap' took most of
the summer of 2004. At present engine only has 30k km on it. That's
hardly broken in for a Cummins.
Oh yeah ... couldn't put that on the old tranny, so he had a local
performance tranny shop custom build a new tranny. Apparently, the
choice was either an Allison 5 speed or a custom built job. Of course,
he elected to go custom. It's a 4 speed with 5th overdrive that is
driver selected (switch on the consol) plus torque lockout, also
driver selectable. It shifts when YOU want to not when IT wants to.
Love it! Wish my truck was like that! Just to keep track of things he
has both an exhaust gas temp gauge and a tranny temp gauge. And just
to be sure the tranny doesn't overheat he put in an auxiliary tranny
cooler ... and just to be DOUBLY sure he installed a second
thermostatically controlled dual fan tranny cooler mounted underneath
on the frame rails. Suspenders and a belt syndrome!
HUGE basement compartments each with 'door not closed' indicators (for
all eight bay doors) at the driver's console.
I've done the road tests and in full rig, 'wet' for travel, it gets
between 12 and 14 miles per gallon (Imperial not US gallons!),
turning 2000 rpm, depending on road condition, hills and how heavy my
foot is ( at 58 mph on Interstate class roads = 16 miles per US gallon
on low sulphur diesel). I have a Chevy p/u that I use to haul the 25'
5er that only gets 18- 20 mpg running empty!!
I was a little leery about it at first given EMC's history. But, it
isn't the ill fated Starfire model and after all he's done to it, it's
essentially a new rig. It runs beautifully.
In the last 3 years he's put about 20 K Km on the rig. But, now he's
building a new house and refuses to use the bank's $$. Needs cash, so
he sold us the rig at a very good price for cash.
Of course the bottom line is that SWMBO likes it, so my opinions
aren't really all that germane to anything <grin>.
Looks like we'll be turning the 5er over to the kids and traveling a
lot in this rig starting this summer.
Hope we can get together for coffee here and there.
JD
Lincoln Mark VII Motor Home? Yup! Meet The Eldorado Starfire!
As you probably know, the 1980’s were a time of great excess, especially when it comes to road going vehicles. American luxury cars of the time were big, cushy, and broughamtastic. While you could stuff six people into your Lincoln Town Car if you had to, what if you wanted to take those six people on a transcontinental journey to visit every cocktail lounge in the land? Enter the Eldorado Starfire motor home!
1984 Ford Eldorado Motorhome
Detail RV by owner Limited Production/Vintage, 'Head turner' (less than 300 ever made) - 1988 El Dorado STARFIRE XL/ RV, Ford 460 with only 32k miles, 4 kw Onan with 350 hrs, Fiberglass body/Self contained Class A Coach, Rear Full bed & bath, roof air - plus engine a/c, air horns&pressure control tag axle, LP, gas hot water, gas central heat, 4 burner gas stove, convection/micro, shower, head. I bought an rv,1988 eldorado EMC, it has 3 batteries. 1 is the main,starts the rv. The other 2 are for the 12 volt system & lighting & stuff for the rv. The 2 batterier are not hocked-up. All the wires are there, but I dont know how to hook them up. Could you tell me in simple terms how to do this.
Just you try and find a better way to travel the States in the mid 80’s. That’s right, you can’t! What a majestic, luxurious beast.
So, there’s one glaring aspect of this RV that stands out, and that’s the fact that it looks like it’s the result of what happens 9 months after a cocaine-fueled bender involving a Lincoln Mark VII, a “Dust Buster” Olds Silhouette minivan, and a Winnebago. Holy crap this thing is… umm… something. Well actually, it’s a lot of things. For one, these are rare beasts. The Eldorado Motor Corp. built a small number of these between 1987 and 1989 and obviously used the lights and grille of the Lincoln Mark VII. They were considered Class A motor homes, and built in various lengths between 27 and 31 feet. These were true land yachts.
CRT TV with a built-in VCR? Check. Skylight in the ceiling? Check. Enough brown and woodgrain to make you think that you are stuck in a Floridian “Over 55” community home’s kitchen in 1988? Also, check.
Oh, what’s that? You think that these things are so awesome that you have to seek one out to buy right now? Say no more, because I’ve found one for you already for the paltry sum of $25,000! You can thank me later. Let’s have a look!
The ad says:
ford fans/ RV fans and of course the you don’t have one of these fans. what we have here is a 1987 Lincoln 32 foot motor home 460 motor with a 6 speed overdrive automatic was featured on the cover of popular mechanics (1987), Oh ya i have that magazine for the non-believers, this RV gets around 14 mpg has all the style on the open road and turns heads has all the things you need to camp or because it is a mobile home you can use that to get around the loopholes that keep people from buying land and doping a camper on it yes because it is a motor home .This body is all fiberglass and well taken care of spent most of its life in California both roof top a.c”s work and its ready to drive away with its new owner . i will listen to reasonable offers/ trades and have many pictures and can answer questions
In typical BangShift fashion, let’s take a look at the pictures of this weirdo-mobile.
So, I’m thinking the seller found some nose candy inside of this old beast and snorted it all by the stuff he’s saying in the ad. Even so, there’s some important info here, like the fact that it comes with a Ford 460 for motivation. He says it will get 14mpg on the open road, but I’m thinking the drugs are doing the talking.
I always find it funny when RV manufacturers use lighting from other mass-produced automobiles. It’s a fun game to play “guess what vehicle those lights came from! ” on road trips, but if I saw this thing out on the highway, I’d have no problem figuring out where this luxury barge pilfered it’s parts from. They didn’t even bother removing the Lincoln hood ornament !
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They even incorporated the Mark VII’s simulated continental kit hump into the back of this thing. Wowzers.
If I owned this thing, I’d drive across the country towing a trailer full of various Mark VII’s behind it, just because. I’d populate the trailer with a bunch of different ones from the 1984-92 model run, like a monochromatic 1992 Mark VII SE, a 1986 Mark VII White Lightning Edition, and even a equally-as-rare 1984 Mark VII Diesel, featuring a BMW turbodiesel I6! While I don’t think the one in the ad is worth the $25k asking price, it is definitely a conversation piece!
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Let us know what you think of this luxurious monstrosity in the comments below!
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