Spent the weekend at my Brothers vintage trailer park, The Starlite Classic Campground (www.starliteclassiccampground.com). They have some of the restored trailers on the park availible for overnight rentals. Great way to experiance vintage trailers without buying/ restoring one first. Had a great time, my wife and I are NOT camper types but now think we could get into it. I'm thinking about finding one now! Our home for the weekend, the "Tikibago" Restored 74 Winnie with it done up with a tiki theme, bamboo & rough ceder interior (sorry, no inside pics). Their most popular rental. Some of their smaller rental trailers. Kills me but my brother leaves his collection of old cars parked out with them to add to the theme. They just picked this one up and in the process of making it rental ready, it's going to be way cool. A 53 New Moon, same trailer that Lucy & Desi pulled across the country in the movie "The Long, Long Trailer". Complete with a DVD of the movie to watch while you say in it. This thing is big & roomy inside. Hollywood, yeah, no way a 53 Merc pulled this thing around. Anyone planning a trip around the Royal Gorge in Colorado might want to check it out, cool accomidations and lot's to do in the area, I even got to mark white water rafting off my bucket list while I was there! Sorry, cheap plug for the park!
Haz a question? Have a 76 Scotty that we use for the August events. Had it for bout 10 yrs or so without this hassel. Wife went to clean it up this yr and mice/rodents etc made a mess over the winter.. Next year I'm gonna put in the D Con maybe? What does everyone else do.?.. thanks Ponriac Slim
My latest camper - a 1985 U-Haul CT-13 I used to have this 1967 Appleby tent camper - bought it on ebay for $105 and did a bunch of repair work on it - sold it a few years ago for $325
1952 Studebaker Camper retruned to Studebaker Power and loving it. Got the rebuilt 289 Studebaker engine installed and too it on a shakedown cruise before I leave for Bonneville on the 11th. It runs twice as strong as the 390 Ford engine and it got 15 mpg to boot pushing that box down the road. And to think it will only get better as it breaks in. Drove it in 105 degree heat from Paso to Monterey and back. Never got over 190 degrees. Great road truck with the overdrive. Shift into OD at 3000 rpm and cruise at 2300 rpm. Bonneville here I come and I'm bringing the Avanti. 205 in 2011.
This is my circus when it rolls into town. The vans a 69 though style did go back earlier and the amazon an early 65. Cracking van, cost me nothing, dry as a bone and a real good laugh. New fabrics and curtains, mint original interior.It's now our mobile clubhouse for the all the shows, able to seat 6, awning now aswell for guests and i love it. It's cheap fun, way better than a tent and able to cook up a feed, have a crap in peace and a nice place warm/cool to sleep. Never thought i'd get excited about a van but we've had such good fun in this, makes folks smile and a fanny magnet. Definatly helped me with getting the female variety into a place with one locked door, it even has porno lighting!!! (See poor pic , sorry about quality) Got 4 new repro 59 Caddy rear lights for it to tidy up the rear and lose the gash rear panel. Just matched up the rims with the car, so 6 bullets all round. Getting the A frame notched as the Amazon is being lowered 90mm on the rear/60mm front over winter and i won't get off the drive. My Amaozn may not be a early 50's Chevy Fleetline, the van may not be a Bambino Airstream but for a poor student i haven't got too much of a hang up and in UK still turns heads big time. We have a laugh with it and in 2 weeks we'll be at the last show of the year having yet another party in it and trashing the place!! The circus...... The clubhouse....... The clubhouse rules....... Porno lighting........ can't help but smile just looking at the thing and alot to live up to no matter how much a new cooler van is. The fact is was all on a budget, great fun and in the spirit of things at least, it will do until i'm rich and driving my Chevy, pulling my Airstream. Here's to drunken nights and lot of laughs!!!!!
This is a local converted Douglas DC3 (C-47A-25-DK, c/n 13210) local fellow converted into a camper. The actual plane fuselage saw WW2 action during the invasion at Normandy and in 1946 she crossed the equator, heading for Indonesia, to serve with the Netherlands Indies Navy. It was last operated by the Netherlands East Indies Navy as W-12. In 1947 during a flight over Australian soil, it force landed near Katherine NT due to an electrical fire. The wreck was shipped to Brisbane and with the wings taken off, she was used as an engine-test rig by KLM in Archerfield. Later the rig was gutted and the empty shell awaited scrapping. The fuselage was mated to an International KB5 truck chassis and completed in 1950. The current owner inherited it from the builder when he passed away. It was restored in 1995 and registered as an "Inter Dakota". Prestige license plates VH-DAK were issued, VH being Australian aircraft designation.
OK I got a 1970 Scotty 13'trailer that I restored and painted to match my 56 chevy. It's a lot of fun and you can haul a lot of stuff with you, and if the weather turns sour no problem. Just got back from the Rt 66 days car show in Flaggstaff az. and it was great. little rainy for me but they got the show off ok and we won a trophy with out little set up. Interior is done up like a 50's diner. We even bring our own car hop along for the display. Hope you enjoy. And yes we do sleep in it after the show. Camp grounds are a lot cheaper than rip off hotels at special events. YRUHOT Doug
Thanks! The '48 Liner will be going soon because I'm doing a '66 Safari. Just finished this up...any idea what it is? We think it is French.
I just sold one of these Diamond Reo campers. Mine is the one on the GMC (I kept the truck to put a box on), and the second shot is what it'll look like on the Diamond Reo Trend truck. It's so ugly, it's cool.
It DOES look like a gargage truck, doesn't it! When we used it, people in campgrounds would stop and stare, it was fun traveling in it. Brian
Here is our 56 airstream 16 foot bubble, I will be selling it soon, (shameless plug). It is beautiful on the inside as well.
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