Re: Should I buy an '04 Georgie Boy Pursuit 2970?
We own an 1998 Cruise Master by Georgie Boy and have been fulltime in it since April of 2000. We have had excellent service from both it and from the Ford chassis that carries it. The company was bought out by Coachman Industries in 1999 but operated as a separate company until about 2007 or so. I personally consider the Georgie Boy series to be a much better product than those from Coachman so am not too sure what the closing of the separate facilities will mean.
The Pursuit is the entry level RV from Georgie Boy. That don't mean that it is a bad product, only that it has less expensive interior and materials. In general it is a good RV, but won't probably stand up to heavy use as well as some of their other product lines. The Pursuit is a vacation type of RV while the Cruise Master is considered to be a snowbird model and the Cruise Air is the full-time one. There is very little solid wood in the Pursuit, the Cruise Master has solid wood doors on all cabinets and drawers and the Cruise Air has solid wood on all cabinet fronts as well.
The same is true of most aspects of the interiors. But if you are not thinking of full-time use, I really see no problem with the Pursuit. To get quality ratings of the various RVs of different makes and models, the best source that is fairly unbiased would be the RV Consumer Group, who are at
www.rv.org