One in five RV owners have the drivable kind, called motor homes (see pictures).
With the Damon acquisition Thompson will try to apply his separate-brand concept to big, complicated motor homes.
People drive cars and trucks and motor homes, and there are plenty of roads to accommodate them.
His first job at the company, in 1971, was on the assembly line installing plumbing in motor homes.
It does not have the parking, or the right demographics, for 25, 000-pound motor homes or 40-foot travel trailers.
People have also offered their motor homes, boats and even the outside of an apartment, in a multi-story apartment building.
More than 6, 500 acres (2600 ha) have been burned, and a cluster of motor homes were charred by the flames.
Big motor homes require more engineering-intense parts like wrap-around windshields and driver cockpits that can't be bought off the shelf.
But Winnebago has outperformed its peers by building what are considered the highest-quality motor homes by the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association.
" They said, "The good news is we have a job for you, working on assembly line number one installing plumbing in motor homes.
The only job offer Bruce Hertzke got coming out of a two-year accounting program in 1971 was to install plumbing in Winnebago motor homes.
Thompson wanted Thor's Four Winds brand of motor homes to start building big, expensive diesel buses when he saw the market for diesels heat up a few years ago.
They also called for the relocation of high-profile vehicles -- including vans, motor homes, travel trailers and hitched boats -- that could hinder traffic if expanded evacuations become necessary.
After company founder John Hanson died in 1996, Winnebago shed ancillary businesses such as a European commercial distribution division and began to concentrate on one thing: building big honkin' motor homes.
Most homes lack garages and other motor vehicle accommodations because residential and commercial areas are connected via gardens and walkways.
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So they teamed with a nonprofit organization called the Motor City Blight Busters, which provides a low-cost work force that renovates the homes for Urban Detroit Wholesalers to sell.
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