[A/S] Re: RV show in Houston 02/2004

["Dan McAnulty" <maison1306@xxxxxxxxx>]

Good observation Jim.  The Houston dealer took over as the local 
Houston Airstream dealer a couple of years ago.  They sell a lot of 
high-dollar RV brands as well as Airstreams.  But A/S is obviously 
not their bread and butter as is apparent by their A/S no-show.

I 've used their service department and found them to be polite and 
experienced, just not very familiar with Airstreams.  For example, I 
had a broken rivet on the side and they didn't have any rivets to 
replace it or a rivet tool. (One of their repairmen happened to have 
his own.)  They finally had to get A/S to send them a few rivets.  
Luckily, it was still under warranty or I'd have had to buy my own 
somewhere to avoid having to buy a whole box.  

Someone on the list commented that A/S "doesn't need to advertise 
because every Airstream built is already sold."  I wish that was 
true, and sales may be up, but my Blue Beret has A/S dealership ads 
still trying to sell brand new 2002 and 2003 trailers on their lot.

RV design is highly competitive and always evolving.  Even Airstream 
realizes this or they wouldn't be building CCD's and adding slides 
to their trailers.  What better way to compare an Airstream to the 
competition than to put them side by side.