The Bus Converter's Bible: How to Plan & Create Your Own Luxury Motorhome [Paperback]

Dave Galey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1996

How to plan and create your own luxury motorhome
Divided into six sections:
1. Structural Modification
2. Plumbing
3. Electrical
4. Heating and Air conditioning
5. Interior design
6. Exterior Design
It has an appendix with useful table and an index.

Editorial Reviews

Review

How to plan and create your own luxury motorhome. A must have book for the do-it-yourself converter and anyone planning to have a bus converted professionally. The subject covered are: Structural modifications, Plumbing, Elecrtical, Heating and Air conditioning, Interior and Exterior Design. The appendix has 12 useful tables plus other technical data. The book has 288 pages with over 60 photographs and illustrations. -- Book Description

About the Author

Dave Galey has a degree in Architectural Engineering and was an aircraft designer for 20 years. He has been a retailer, a manufacturer, an oil producer and has converted two buses for his and his wife's use and helped many other convert their coaches over the past 21 years. He has been published in AIAA, SAMPE, National Bus Trader, Family Motor coaching and Bus conversion Magazine. He and his wife have traveled over 250,000 miles in thier conversion throughout the North American continent.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Winlock Pub Co (March 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964943743
• ISBN-13: 978-0964943742
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,469,085 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dave Galey has an engineering degree from the University of Oklahoma, 1952. He spent twenty years as an aircraft structural designer. He did research work in honeycomb sandwich structure, and prepared a design manual while in the aircraft business. While there, he developed reinforced plastic products for the oil industry.
With Hunter Engineering, he designed aluminum processing equipment and later left engineering to become a retail merchant. As a career change, in partnership with his brother, he became an oil producer. This business was recently sold.
He fell in love with buses about 25 years ago, and converted his first bus then. As a hobby, he has worked on many of his friends buses, and has converted several buses for others. He completed his latest personal coach a little over 12 years ago.
Dave, with his wife Roberta have traveled extensively throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico in their conversions. As a hobby, Dave continues to upgrade his computer, so that he may write articles and illustrate them with engineering drawings. In addition, Dave has analyzed the structure of buses regarding structural modifications, such as slide-out rooms. He and his friends have developed several innovations. He and his wife have six children and eleven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must have read a different book!, July 21, 2000

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Jim Furth (Albuquerque, NM USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bus Converter's Bible: How to Plan & Create Your Own Luxury Motorhome (Paperback)

I must have read a different book! The book I read is quite concise, very readable and a joy to have. I have found that this book really inspires one to continue on the road to a bus conversion with a great deal of confidence and a sure friend to contact should you need assistance. Dave knows his way around a bus and I'm sorry the other folks didn't like the title (Bible, by the way just means "book", Dave didn't write the "Holy Bus Converter's Bible, but he did write the all around book on bus conversions, without getting so direct as to be a step by step manual, remember, he shouldn't be held responsible if I, or another doesn't do it right and turns a bus into a BOMB! Dave is a great guy, but he can't look over everyone's shoulder to make sure we don't do it wrong, although he IS a very helpful guy to know when doing this work. As for me, I intend to LEARN those skills I don't have now so I can do the best job I can on my bus and take responsbility for my own work.) This IS indeed a BOOK to have if you intend to convert a bus yourself, have one converted for you or even buy a motor home at a dealer's. The "boards" are right!, this is even BETTER than you think it will be. Maybe it's a case of the glass half empty v.s. half FULL, THANKS DAVE!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I would never call this book a Bible., December 27, 1999

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Jeff Barbour (Buckroe Beach, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bus Converter's Bible: How to Plan & Create Your Own Luxury Motorhome (Paperback)

I read this book several times & found it too general. Not at all what I expected. I was looking for a step by step review to convert a bus into a 1st class RV. It boggs down in detail about technical fact to metal strengths & fasteners, etc. I'm know this information is important, little attention is paid to the nuts & bolts of bus conversions. I'm sure the book could / should be more specific. There are 'Standards' that should be followed from Bus Conversions to RVs (RVIA & NFPA Standards) A real "HOW TO" book could be written & this was not it! I'd like to see a book that tells me "This is the way to do it" & then tell me why. We can apply such knowledge to whatever 'style' conversion we wish to do on whatever model bus we wish to convert. This book is NOT as good as you would believe it is from reading the "Boards"

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Bus Converter's Bible, June 2, 2002

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"winudem" (Floresville, Texas USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bus Converter's Bible: How to Plan & Create Your Own Luxury Motorhome (Paperback)

VERY SHORT AND SIMPLE: I throwed my money away on this book.