Sunline sightings - Page 3

**JohnB** · 10-25-2017, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Digmenow

It's funny but it seems that once you buy a camper, you start to notice them all over the place!

Yes, for sure. Now start counting how many campers you see on the interstate going here and there. They are everywhere... Never really noticed them that much before. And your Sunline radar is now "always on"

**Sunline Fan** · 10-25-2017, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by JohnB

Well, ya learn something new every day on SOC!!! The bathroom widow was an option.... My gosh, never would of thought of that. Now I know!!

Thanks

Also glad I picked it right as a 98 T-2553! Yeh

Yeah, the POG was a big thing in the '90s, and often overlooked because they were nearly standard features. Then they became standard features.

I was thinking over lunch and I think I've only seen one late '90s Sunline without a bathroom window option (17A and 17B Saturns aside). Twin bed options were pretty rare in the '90s (but not as rare as Kitty's), and those were far more common to see than a Sunline without POG.

You sure are getting good at naming years and models! I might have to give you a quiz!

vcrt · 10-25-2017, 02:37 PM

I don't know if this counts, but our 92 T-2470 had no bathroom window. I'm almost positive that when I had the aluminum opened up on the back (rear bathroom) wall, I saw the plastic corner gussets stapled in place where a window could have been installed.
Rich

**Sunline Fan** · 10-25-2017, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by vcrt

I don't know if this counts, but our 92 T-2470 had no bathroom window. I'm almost positive that when I had the aluminum opened up on the back (rear bathroom) wall, I saw the plastic corner gussets stapled in place where a window could have been installed.
Rich

Interesting that it was prepped for a window. I believe the window didn't become an advertised option until 1993, and then the preferred options group wasn't introduced until 1994/95, and continued into the early 2000s.

POG didn't take off right away, but it didn't take long. My '94 2363 didn't have POG, but it was special ordered by the original owners.

johnnybgood · 07-18-2018, 07:40 AM

Out for our first trip in the new 2000 T2370 at Castaways near Ocean City, Maryland........

Three other Sunlines in the campground. One was a late model (2006 or 2007 I think) that pulled up camp before I could get a picture. The other 2 look to be the same year? 96? Of course I don’t know the models......

**Sunline Fan** · 07-18-2018, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by johnnybgood

Three other Sunlines in the campground. One was a late model (2006 or 2007 I think) that pulled up camp before I could get a picture. The other 2 look to be the same year? 96? Of course I don’t know the models......

'98 2753 and '99 2553, respectively.

johnnybgood · 07-18-2018, 12:10 PM

Your amazing Jon. I can’t figure out how you tell the difference. I guessed 1996 as my T1700 had the same color stripes. So these color stripes were used until what, 2000?

**Sunline Fan** · 07-18-2018, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by johnnybgood

Your amazing Jon. I can’t figure out how you tell the difference. I guessed 1996 as my T1700 had the same color stripes. So these color stripes were used until what, 2000?

Model years 1996-1999.

For the first one, it's tricky to tell between 1997 and 98. The giveaway is at the bottom- '97 had a black skirt metal and black fenderskirts, '98 had all white. The skirt metal was kinda hard to see in the picture (black tends to blend in with shadows), but I was able to see around the stuff enough to see the fenderskirt is white. The '96 trailers had a slightly different shaped nose on them, so I know it wasn't that.

The second one was easy, I didn't even have to zoom in on the pic. While '99 did use the same stripe, the design was one year only. The rock guard logo was centered over striping, as opposed to the left with striping to the right design of previous years. Also, the sun silhouettes in the middle of the sidewalls were replaced with swooshes at the rear of the trailer.

As for the models, I knew them just from having memorized the length with door and window patterns. The late '90s are my specialty so I know them well, but take me back to the '80s and I do need to reference some. Sunline used to have a lot of variations of floorplans available in the '80s, some of which I've never seen one of, so it's hard to remember all of those. I'm ok with the popular models though, I can spot a 2261 vs. a 2464 easily if I can see it or am given enough pictures.

Vbreithaupt · 07-18-2018, 09:11 PM

See two or three each summer at various Michigan state camp grounds. Always let them know about this club. You will know mine I have a geeen porta boat on the side of mine.

johnnybgood · 07-20-2018, 08:39 AM

Another Sunline showed up at the campground yesterday. Looks like an 80’s something T1350....

**Sunline Fan** · 07-20-2018, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by johnnybgood

Another Sunline showed up at the campground yesterday. Looks like an 80’s something T1350....

1984 T-1250. Fairly rare, since most of this floorplan were 12 1/2' MC. Not a ton of them were built from 1983-86. Again this was a one year only stripe pattern, so it was easy to ID, although the rock guard has been modified. Looks like a new eBay decal on the front too.

The 1350 had an entry door almost to the rear of that side.

johnnybgood · 07-02-2019, 06:27 PM

Camped last weekend at Lums Pond State Park in Delaware and what backs in next to us but a 2006 T-1950. Was in great condition. Nice folks were from Connecticut and said they had been searching for a Sunline for a couple years. Finally found it in Vermont.

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My 2000 T2370 is still a work in progress.

johnnybgood · 08-25-2019, 04:24 PM

Did a weeklong trip at Castaways by Ocean City Maryland in our freshly painted 2000 T2370 (great fun)......

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What shows up, but another T2370....

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Nice people. I think he said it was a 1997 that he also recently painted.

Never saw these owners to talk. Looks like around a 1996? Not sure what model....

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**JohnB** · 08-26-2019, 04:36 PM

Looks good John. Thanks for sharing.

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MACK C-85 · 10-17-2019, 07:48 PM

No time for pics.....

Today around noon, MD Rt. 32 westbound just west of the I-97/Crain Hwy (Rt.3) interchange.

Black Dodge pickup towing a 28' - 30' Slide model.

I was eastbound, so only saw them in passing.

**Sunline Fan** · 10-22-2019, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by johnnybgood

Did a weeklong trip at Castaways by Ocean City Maryland in our freshly painted 2000 T2370 (great fun)......

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What shows up, but another T2370....

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Nice people. I think he said it was a 1997 that he also recently painted.

Never saw these owners to talk. Looks like around a 1996? Not sure what model....

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Yeah, looks like the first one (middle pic) is a '97, based on fenderskirts and window style.

The last one looks like a naked '93 T-2670. For those of you wondering, narrowed down to '93-95 by the fenderskirts, narrowed down to '93-94 by the rear logo decal, and then further narrowed down to '93 only because that was the only year they did the rear (and side) bunk windows on a bunkhouse model.

**clueless campers** · 01-30-2020, 02:54 PM

I 'spotted' a SunLine this past weekend

. I think it may be a 1984 T-1350. It wasn't on the road, but on television in the wee hours of Sunday.

CourtTV was airing 'The FBI Files' when the episode titled 'Terror in Disguise' came on. It will air again at 11:00am, Sat, 2-8-20. It's from Season 3, but there is some discrepancy as to whether it's Episode 4 or 8.

The SunLine first appears around the 44:30 mark in this YouTube video:

**JohnB** · 01-30-2020, 10:00 PM

Wow... the Sunline neighborhood watch program is alive and well!

Sunline made it back onto national TV! YEH!