Who owns or has owned a travel trailer?

Ugh, don't remind me. Between those, and leftover paisley shirts, it's any wonder I made it out of the '70s alive and more or less intact.

 

Time to awake the sleeping dawg

 

There's two boats in that color picture...

 

Looks more like a half-assed Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. And the Airstream Jamboree? If you need proof, Joe, that the Barge can pull a big, heavy trailer, there's your evidence.

 

Were the aluminum road blimps heavier than the barges?

 

Funny thing is that top pic doesn't look real, they look like miniature toy models. Also the tongue weight on some is causing a lot of rear end drag on some of them... that'd be real fun to steer!

 

Of course if I keep this up we'll end up like "The Long, Long Trailer" - 1954



The trailer was a 1953 36 foot Redman "New Moon" original price was $5,345 ($50,032.21 in today's dollars)
Of course the car was a 1953 Mercury Monterey convertible original MSRP $2,610 ($24,431.07)

 

I remember the scene where Desi's buying the Merc, and the salesman's like, "Of course, if you want to tow, you're going to need the larger engine...the oil cooler...the trans oil cooler...heavier-duty brakes, heavier-duty suspension...." and as he's saying these, and their prices, the car's total price is skyrocketing! Desi's eyeballs are bulging!

 

That red man was a monster. I guess if you could afford to buy that combination of car and trailer fuel.milage wouldn't have been a concern. My colony park was bought by the original owner to pull a travel trailer. He told me the 77 wagon cost $8000 the car phone was $5000 and the camper close to the price of the car. He had two car phones at that price the other in his daily business driver.
I had a 77 Yellowstone for a few years that I towed with my dodge ram. Didn't use it enough to justify keeping it. I also own an island on the lessor great lake, lake st Clair. I have been actively looking for a camper to pull behind the wagon. I'm heading into retirement so it will free up more time to travel. For what is being asked for a small vintage trailer I'm leaning towards building my own canned ham / teardrop trailer. My thoughts though have been painting the sides the same yellow as the wagon with rosewood dinoc to match.

 

That would certainly be neat.

Vintage trailers are still out there for decent prices around here, but I suppose it could depend on what region you live in.

 

The larger vintage trailers are still reasonable it's the small ones that are reaching buying new prices.

 

I had an old '67 pop up trailer back in the late 80's. Plenty of room for me, the wife and the two kids.
Cooler needed ICE to keep the milk cold and never could get the gas heater to work. Most times all 4 of us ended up sleeping on one of the two large bunks in order to keep warm.
But the stove made great bacon and eggs and black coffee! We used it for at least 5 years on many family trips.
Ended up giving it away just to get rid of the thing.
And remember that it was also pretty heavy behind the '77 Malibu.

 

A guy had something like this at Billet Proof one year. It was on a Falcon Wagon. He got it for FREE on Craigslist! It was really cool man.

 

Vintage camping gear is awesome. It tends to bring a premium now a days. That's amazing he got it for free!