NWMoparguy
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I love these old trailers too. Add that to my list of things I want to own someday. I picture my girl and I pulling one of these old beauties behind a station wagon. 
Vintage Travel Trailers
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greasemonkeyman
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Here's a restoration of a 1950's Berkeley Travel Trailer (Caravan) in England.A two story camper?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmHK7n1RVwc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmHK7n1RVwc
greasemonkeyman
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1961 Holiday House Geographic Model X-all fiberglass.......
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commando1
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I can't get enough of this thread.
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greasemonkeyman
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Futuristic Motorhomes?
Me too .. I love old timey photograhs
We (my wife) subscribes to this and it's cool to read and look at the pictures
[h=1]Reminisce Magazine tracks 80 years of Airstream trailers[/h]
Airstream: Around the world in 80 years
NEW YORK — Few products, perhaps the Coca-Cola contour bottle or the Volkswagen Beetle, are as shapely as the Airstream trailer. Featured in movies like Independence Day and Charlie’s Angels to TV shows like “Grey’s Anatomy” and “The Simple Life,” — even Matthew McConaughey has a truly tricked out, customized model – the Airstream is a legendary icon now celebrating eight gleaming decades as the favorite home away from home, a feature story in the August/September issue of Reminisce Magazine.
The brainchild of a charismatic businessman named Wally Byam, the Airstream’s origins stemmed from a small two-wheeled donkey cart equipped with a washbasin, a kerosene heater and a sleeping bag which evolved into a tent erected atop a platform attached to a Ford Model T chassis. Of course this was an unlovable contraption, particularly to his first wife who refused to go camping without a basic kitchen.
So Bynum replaced the tent with a teardrop-shaped cabin that included a small stove and an ice chest. He built several more trailers, refining his design, but the credit for the distinctive shape goes to William Hawley Bowles, an aircraft designer who had served as a foreman in the shop that assembled the Spirit of St. Louis for Charles Lindbergh. It was Bowles who penned a dramatic aircraft-inspired travel trailer made of aluminum. Unfortunately he was a more gifted designer than a businessman and his company went under after producing just 80 trailers.
Wally, who had done some sales and marketing for Bowles, then picked up the pieces and became Airstream’s chief executive, traveling the country – and later the world – with a trailer in tow.
A slideshow of the favorite home away from home can be viewed here: http://www.reminisce.com/2012/07/airstream-around-the-world-in-80-years/
Airstream: Around the world in 80 years
NEW YORK — Few products, perhaps the Coca-Cola contour bottle or the Volkswagen Beetle, are as shapely as the Airstream trailer. Featured in movies like Independence Day and Charlie’s Angels to TV shows like “Grey’s Anatomy” and “The Simple Life,” — even Matthew McConaughey has a truly tricked out, customized model – the Airstream is a legendary icon now celebrating eight gleaming decades as the favorite home away from home, a feature story in the August/September issue of Reminisce Magazine.
The brainchild of a charismatic businessman named Wally Byam, the Airstream’s origins stemmed from a small two-wheeled donkey cart equipped with a washbasin, a kerosene heater and a sleeping bag which evolved into a tent erected atop a platform attached to a Ford Model T chassis. Of course this was an unlovable contraption, particularly to his first wife who refused to go camping without a basic kitchen.
So Bynum replaced the tent with a teardrop-shaped cabin that included a small stove and an ice chest. He built several more trailers, refining his design, but the credit for the distinctive shape goes to William Hawley Bowles, an aircraft designer who had served as a foreman in the shop that assembled the Spirit of St. Louis for Charles Lindbergh. It was Bowles who penned a dramatic aircraft-inspired travel trailer made of aluminum. Unfortunately he was a more gifted designer than a businessman and his company went under after producing just 80 trailers.
Wally, who had done some sales and marketing for Bowles, then picked up the pieces and became Airstream’s chief executive, traveling the country – and later the world – with a trailer in tow.
A slideshow of the favorite home away from home can be viewed here: http://www.reminisce.com/2012/07/airstream-around-the-world-in-80-years/
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commando1
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Fratzog
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There is something about a nice looking girl standing in the door of a trailer...
greasemonkeyman
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Here's a funny trailer video......make sure you use the right vehicle for towing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyXgMal3C1U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyXgMal3C1U
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commando1
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Can't wait to see it.
bluefury361
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bluefury361
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Ellie found this picture ........
greasemonkeyman
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Nice '59 Caddy Fleetwood with a matching Shasta,and both are sporting their fins!
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