For those of you who are following along on our Rocky Mountain Race Week 2020 coverage, my end of the story goes like this: after the livestream at Bandimere Raceway, Haley and I crashed at the hotel and the next morning rose bright and…well, kind of early…and hit the road to Kearney, Nebraska. Neither one of us have been to the state prior to this trip, so after enduring the five and a half hours on the road (and the spine-shattering ride that Interstate 76 offers up) we are currently sitting in the next room, ready for a good night’s sleep before RMRW Day 2 racing. Which for my “Tour of Temptation”, means I need to make another selection from the $5,000 and under category of the local classifieds that I wouldn’t mind taking on. Remember, this “tour” is more about what I’d choose if somebody handed me a stack and told me to have fun.
Today’s selection is actually about utility. Over the last few days, Haley and I have talked about the proposed “BangShift Mobile Command Center” and the usefulness of a smaller recreational vehicle. Between my travels and the occasional trip that we’d take in between, something smaller, like a good Class C motorhome. Since we’re packed to the gills in a four-door half-ton truck for this trip, we’re both realizing that we would love to have a place to let drinks cool, to store food so we can skip on the gut-bombs at drive-thrus, and maybe have a place for one of us to lie down and rest while the other sits at the wheel. The thinking is right but the funding is not…a quick look at a new Class B or Class C says I need a disposable six figures before I even think about it. 
Or…hear me out, we try this option. This is a 1991 Ford Econoline commercial chassis that has an extended length and a tag axle. This is the kind of rig you would’ve normally seen pulling shuttle bus duty at an airport or as a local public transit provider. It’s also the last year of the older Econoline look, because the newer version that is still in production today would debut in 1992. Engine? It’s there. What it is, I don’t know. Overdrive automatic? I’m not holding my breath in a heavy-duty unit from the early 1990s just yet. With the aerodynamics of a barn door and the weight of the rest of the barn, fuel efficiency is a laughing point. But look inside this homegrosn RV conversion and you might see what I’m seeing: a bed, seats, a storage space, the mini-fridge, even a captain’s chair with a desk which would be useful…if I didn’t get sick every time I tried to read while moving.
$4,550 and I could pack everything from the truck into this thing and still have room to do on-the-road workouts when I’m not at the wheel. Or, maybe not…after showing this to Haley, I might have just been threatened with castration.
