This issue’s featured customer is Wayne Rogers – below you will find some of his comments and adventures with his new custom 6×10 RT.
It is almost 800 miles from Ipswich, Mass to Sugar Creek. That went fine and the accommodations were superb. I was so glad that we picked the trailer up at the factory. The questions that we had were corrected quickly by your people. When we left the factory and arrived at the corporate offices in Massillon I wanted to shop the options in the display case but the wife wanted to move on. She got antsy wanting to reach our camp site early so I had no time to shop.
I had made reservations at camp ground on lake Ontario in NY for Friday night. As it worked out it was a really nice site right on the water. Now I know that you do not have an appreciation for my wife’s phobias. My wife has every phobia that you can think of. You name it she is afraid of it! Well….. when you were describing the integrity of the trailers cabin you told us jokingly that “It is so tight that you need to keep the windows open in order to breath”. This is not a good thing to tell my wife. She took this as littoral. When we camped that night in upstate NY she insisted that all the windows be open because we need to breath. In the middle of the night, about 2 or 3 AM she was awakened by the nose of a local bear pressed to her side screen 5 inches from her nose! I was awakened by her screams. The bear left after 20 to 30 seconds of her screaming. It was a moment that we will both remember for a long time! Nice first night! We still laugh about it.
Now for some first impressions. The trailer pulls effortlessly. It was like there was nothing behind me, no wind buffeting, no effects at all. When we arrived at the site everything went easy we pulled in, plugged in and went to sleep! During the drive starting in Sugar Creek it took me a few miles to find a happy spot for fuel mileage. On the trip back I split the driving miles almost 50/50. I drove 390 miles on Friday and 385 on Saturday. On Friday because of the late start I found it necessary to push the speed limits. I was doing 80 to 85 MPH on the way to our NY camp site. The Jeep normally gets 20 +-.5 MPG. On Friday at 80 to 85 MPH the fuel mileage dropped to less than 16 MPG! On Saturday I laid back to around 60 to 65 MPH and got 20.8 MPG!!! WOW! Once I found the Jeeps sweet spot the MPG was predictable. The R/T does not seem to burden the drive at all. In NY on the NY thruway there were some terrible rains and winds. All traffic stopped many times for 10 minutes at a time with nothing at all moving! The R/T showed no bad manners in the terrible weather and NO LEAKS. All in all we are very happy.
A final note; You were correct. I got many, yes many inquiries about the R/T along the way. Before we left Ohio I was asked if it was made in Ohio and I said “Yes in Sugar Creek” The reply was “ Where the hell is Sugar Creek”?