I learned something about Miranda in the past few days that has simply boggled me.

She was sold to me as a 1997 model. Nothing in my paperwork actually gave the model year, so I assumed that this was correct even though little things didn’t jive, like the brochure Glendale sent me,  the fact that she does better in cold weather than she should, and her layout being just a tad off from other ’97s.

The gang at Lube-X told me that according to Ford, she couldn’t possibly be a ’97 (I think it’s because there were no E-450’s built in ’97).

And then I met up with a real ’97 Royal Classic en route to the Chasm and the suspicion that has been growing for longer than I realised was confirmed:  Miranda is a 1998 model!

I did some more digging and found proof! There is a note under the hood that she was built in December 1997, officially making her a 2008 model. A year might not seem like much, but I think that for an RV it makes a huge difference.

Guess this means I can hope to be ‘stuck’ with her an extra year!