The Motor Coaching Bible [Paperback]

Dave Galey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1999

This is a complete motorhoming handbook. It has seven contributing authors covering subjects such as insurance, associations, the world wide web, Generators, Instrumentation, and a bibliography. Check lists are included for assessing a motor coach, for camping and other activities. A complete technical section is included aalong with a comprehensive index.

Editorial Reviews

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: 408 pages
• Publisher: Winlock Galey, Sun City, CA (April 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1890461148
• ISBN-13: 978-1890461140
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,232,807 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

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Dave Galey gem!, August 7, 2004

By 

Chris Sellick (South Australia,Australia) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: The Motor Coaching Bible (Paperback)

If you want to learn all about the benefits of owning your own bus conversion then you'll love this book.Dave Galey covers many aspects of Motorhome ownership from air conditioning,books to the best products suited to motorhoming.This is book is an ideal companion book to his book titled:

"The bus converter's bible:how to plan and create your own luxury motorhome""(2nd edition).

There are other books on bus conversions/motorhomes/motorcoaching available from amazon.