Beaver · Class A · Model-year overview
1998 Beaver Contessa
The Beaver Ambassador Club's Coach Assist library lists an owner's manual for the 1998 Contessa. The files are open to club members only, so no specifications are recorded here.
Fact-checked. An independent reviewer checked this page against its cited sources.
- Price when new
- Not documented
- Length
- Not documented
- Chassis
- Not documented
- Engine
- Not documented
About the price: No model-year price list was found, so no base price is recorded. SMC's annual report for fiscal 1997 (filed in 1998) gave a retail price range of $190,000 to $230,000 for the Contessa, depending on options, without naming a model year (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0000932129/000089387798000267/0000893877-98-000267.txt).
These values describe this model year and configuration. An individual coach can differ, so check it against the coach’s own records. “Not documented” means the encyclopedia does not have that fact yet.
Full specifications
- Model year
- 1998
- Variant
- Model-year overview
- Chassis maker
- Not documented
- Chassis
- Not documented
- Engine maker
- Not documented
- Engine
- Not documented
- Displacement (L)
- Not documented
- Horsepower
- Not documented
- Torque (lb-ft)
- Not documented
- Transmission
- Not documented
- Length (ft)
- Not documented
- Height (ft)
- Not documented
- Width (in)
- Not documented
- Slides
- Not documented
- Floorplan
- Not documented
- Generator maker
- Not documented
- Generator
- Not documented
- Generator (kW)
- Not documented
- Fuel (gal)
- Not documented
- Fresh water (gal)
- Not documented
- Gray water (gal)
- Not documented
- Black water (gal)
- Not documented
- Luxury systems
- Not documented
- Intended use
- Not documented
Notes
The same SMC report says the Contessa was reintroduced in 1997 as a completely new design with a 330-horsepower engine; it does not tie that engine to a model year, so the engine fields are left empty. Scans of Beaver's 1998 brochures are linked by year from the public Beaver Motorhome History brochure index (https://sites.google.com/site/beavermotorhomehistory/home/smc/brochures-smc); those photo albums cannot be read as text and were not used for this record.
Brochures and sources
Links open the original page. Facts are checked against these sources; tell us if you find one that is out of date.
1998 Contessa coaches for sale
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