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Gary the virus basically took the time I had to enjoy it. Unfortunately life has moved in a different direction over the last three years and demands different choices. Better to let someone else actually enjoy it than have it just sitting as it does now.

sort of. the virus took away a good chunk of time that i would have used it for.

If someone wants this in norcal, i am open to offers. Cant do much with it myself anymore,. Its from 86, so expect usual niggles for the age and have space/time to finish rough edges that dont show in the pictures.

My '86 conquest is documented here. If someone in norcal wants it, I am open to offers for it to go to a good home.

Here is the front half of the roof bare to metal and tubes.

There is certainly plenty of aluminium in the main roof. The AC rests on two tubes going across the width at the front vent, kerping the roof from sagging the way many other models do. My teardown thread probably has pictures of the roof aluminium. And the rear has a few tubes going through it too. There is one tube going across with width in the rear just above the rear lights thats easy to verify by just taking off the rear lights. There is another at the bottom. There are probably a couple where the ladder is attached going top to bottom. You are not supposed to step on the sloping part on the cabover, so that might be just plywood and insulation. Ben must have used the same pattern as original. It looks very similar to what I found in my walls/roof.

By the way, did you get any original manuals with yours? Conquest paperwork isnt yet discoverable in the wild.

For the rest of the body I can confirm from personal experience too. Come to think of it, I met aluminium tubing in the rear light housing, so its a complete tubular frame just as Ben shows it. He just rewelded it. Not spaced all that close though, roof tubes are spaced about two feet except for the air conditioner vent where it 14inches. But its quite a bit better than purely stick framed models.

The frame of a conquest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77H4aPptpd0

This series of videos

gulfstreams have plenty of metal framing in the roof, though even more would not have hurt. The rear wall is likely mostly wood like any other model, not sure whats going on there. They had ladders, so presumably some support structure was embedded, cant say for sure since its been a while since I saw the back walls undone. There is a set of videos of the deconstruction of an 86 conquest by a forum member on youtube that should provide definitive answers.

For those of you that need to go through this every couple years, is it even more of a scam than cars? I felt like I was taken advantage of by some shady merchants, but that's par for the course here in Norcal.

Yes, there is aluminium framing even on the older models. If you are tearing down the roof then you will meet even more metal than just the frame.

I can post?

extend a stay on a slightly newer tank -- after the tank shut off, before the regulator.