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Post by bigbill on Jan 31, 2016 13:08:09 GMT -8
Saw a 2016 Shasta fifth wheel yesterday while on a day trip. It was locked and dealership was closed so couldn't see inside, but it was very nice looking from outside, looked very modern and aerodynamic. The thing that caught my attention was the name tag said Shasta since 1941. wonder how many companies have purchased that brand name seems like it is popping up on everything.
It had four steps to climb with no hand rail, not an old person trailer. After getting home and goggling it I found it was made by Phoenix a division of Forest River.
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Post by vintagebruce on Jan 31, 2016 13:48:09 GMT -8
Saw a 2016 Shasta fifth wheel yesterday while on a day trip. It was locked and dealership was closed so couldn't see inside, but it was very nice looking from outside, looked very modern and aerodynamic. The thing that caught my attention was the name tag said Shasta since 1941. wonder how many companies have purchased that brand name seems like it is popping up on everything. It had four steps to climb with no hand rail, not an old person trailer. After getting home and goggling it I found it was made by Phoenix a division of Forest River. I was fiddling with the NADA values for Shastas after 1990 and ran across this comment... "A company established in 1941 as a supplier of mobile military housing, Shasta realized the growing recreational vehicle market after the Second World War. Becoming a popular brand for road-going vacationers as well as weekend campers, travel trailers, camping trailers, fifth wheel trailers and Class C motorhomes were constructed by the brand. The Shasta brand name currently operates inside the Forest River Incorporated company." I also found the shastarving site and it reminds me of one of those strings of one Big fish eating a smaller fish, eating a smaller fish etc. Check out the very bottom corner of this site...the whole shaboodle (Forest River) is a Berkshire-Hathaway company. www.shastarving.com/ |
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Post by bigbill on Feb 1, 2016 15:58:24 GMT -8
Yes It is a conglomerate but There is no way it had any thing to do with the original Shasta they merely bought up the name when they took over Coachman which only bought the name years ago.
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