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Thor Announces Record Sales for Quarter, Half

2 February 1999

Thor Announces Record Sales for Quarter, Half; Expects Quarter Operating Income to Double

    JACKSON CENTER, Ohio, Feb. 2 -- Thor Industries, Inc.
announced today record preliminary sales for the quarter ended
January 31, 1999 of $165.8 million, up 23% from $134.5 million last year.
Sales for the 6 months were a record $355 million, up 18% from $300 million
last year.
    Bus sales surged 65% in the quarter to $53.1 million from $32.2 million
last year and jumped 44% in the 6 months to $104 million from $72 million last
year.  RV sales in the quarter increased 10% to $112.7 million, up from last
year's $102.3 million and grew 10% in the 6 months, to $251 million, up from
last year's $228 million.
    Wade F. B. Thompson, Thor Chairman, also announced that operating income
in the quarter is expected to be about double last year and that backlog is a
record $200 million, up 60% from last year.  He also reported that the
company's new state-of-the-art 137,000 sq. ft. Dutchmen travel trailer plant
started production yesterday in Goshen, IN.  Two formerly leased facilities
have been consolidated into this facility, providing substantial operating
efficiencies, improved quality and increased capacity.
    Final results for the quarter and 6 months will be reported by
March 8, 1999.

    This release includes "forward-looking statements" that involve
uncertainties and risks.  There can be no assurance that actual results will
not differ from the Company's expectations.  Factors which could cause
materially different results include, among others, the success of new product
introductions, the pace of acquisitions and cost structure improvements,
competitive and general economic conditions, and the other risks set forth in
the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.