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hamb friendly motor homes? can we start a pic thread?

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by 1950coronet600hp, Dec 9, 2010.

  1. alsancle
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    Here is the story.


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  2. 60 ford
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    Too cool. Hope to see it tooling down the interstate someday.
     
  3. keithreid
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    sadly, mine isn't hamb friendly. 1973 FMC 2900R motorcoach, all original and was made with a 440 Chrysler marine engine and 727 trans in a pusher configuration. People look at me funny when they ask if FMC stands for Ford Motor Company and I tell them no, It's actually Food Machinery Company.
    I don't think this is the right forum for pics, but a google search will show a lot of them.

    y'all have a good day, Keith
     
  4. If you did one half as kool as the kart it'd be awesome.
     
  5. 354valiant
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    Hey there this might not be HAMB friendly but this is our 1973 Dodge Sportsman Motorhome and home-made open trailer. This little camper has been in the family since the mid '80's and has been all over the mid-west country-side, with plenty of great memories too. :) Thanks Brian
     

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  6. mart3406
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    How about this for a 'HAMB friendly' motor
    home? In 1938, International Harvester
    custom built a fleet of these aptly-named
    "Jungle Yacts" for Commander Attilio Gatti's
    tenth to the Africa" for Italian explorer
    Attilio Gatti's tenth expedition to the Africa.

    Mart3406
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  7. koolkemp
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    Haha neet ! Those internationals are cool, dig the art decco bathroom :D
     
  8. gnichols
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    And the winner is!!! Gary
     
  9. J'st Wandering
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    Back two or three years ago it was in Gibbon Nebraska. It is home-made. Originally had a flathead engine in back but switched to a Y-block when I saw it. It is very nicely built and would be fun to have. I just had too many projects to give it much serious thought.

    Neal
     
  10. Bigcheese327
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    As promised, a prewar "motor home" (house car). This one is a Pierce Arrow, and I picked it because it was the most like a modern motor home that I found on a quick glance.

    Even more common were conventional truck chassis with a cabin built where a van body might otherwise be found. Something to think about next time you find a Ford Model AA in a field.

    Scanned from RVs & Campers 1900-2000: An Illustrated History by Donald F. Wood, Iconografix, 2002.

    -Dave
     

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  11. gnichols
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    How about some old, old, very old school? Gary
     

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  12. Hot Rod Elvis
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    Man I love that too!:D Don't know about the lime green color scheme, but outside (fabrications) and inside is just freakin' awesome! Look's like they took a 51' or 52' Ford F-6 and mounted an airstream on the back. Looks rounded off like one anyway.

    -Cody
     
  13. TurboT
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    Now my wife's gonna want one. Thanks:)
     
  14. TurboT
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    This one is so cool. It makes me think of that Heavy Metal animated film, or some spaceship crash landed in the jungle.
     
  15. I think Gerry Burger and the guys from Rodders Digest did an article on this one, or one like it many years ago.

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  16. gnichols
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    I found this image on the web yesterday (no other info posted) while searching for old moving van pix, of all things. It looks like a photo shop, but either way it's pretty cool. Probably not much good in the wide open / unpaved spaces, but still... I wouldn't toss it on the floor. Anyone know more? Gary
     

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  17. my friends ford vannete I posted in the coe thread too:
     

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  18. I can envision this "hot rodded"!:D
     

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  19. I am usually a sucker for lime green, but yeah that color is icky lol at least on that setup, that is top notch, looks like it came from the factory that way...
     
  20. Al Von
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    Is that the OPPOSITE of sectioning or what??
     
  21. gnichols
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    More like piling on, stacking, or doubling. Looks like 2-3 cars on the bottom topped by 2-3 more offset to the front. Gary
     
  22. TurboT
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    Big block 454 twin turbo 1500 hp and then smoke them big ol tires. How fun would that be. I guess there's a staircase up to the drivers seat. I can imagine this would be fun to drive, lot of gas though. Not sayin that's what it has, just dreamin
     
  23. mart3406
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    Twin-turbo 454??? Na....too little and too
    high-strung! If your gonna' dream, dream
    big! 16V92TTAC Detroit....set at about
    the same hp, but down low, at about 2300
    rpm and with twice as much torque!!:eek::D

    Mart3406
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  24. TurboT
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    I was thinking cheap and reliable, 1500 should be a mild build for a turbo bbc without too many exotic parts. Poor guys can dream too. hi performance pontiac had a TT 455 putting down 2800, but thats alot of cash to build. oh, diesel right. snap!
     
  25. racer756
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    Streamline Travel home-1966
     

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  26. there was one for sale around here not to long ago, friggen cool!
     
  27. the ass end is defiantly long enough for that kinda power plant lol
     
  28. Sideplatesix
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    Built in South Australia in the early 1920's

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  29. racer756
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    I bought this one about 9 yrs ago in Joplin, Mo. and brought it back to California..still a work in progress..
     

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