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Nick's Teardrop Trailer Page. Teardrop Photo Page There are many different shapes and styles of teardrop camping trailers, some are not even really a teardrop shape but the basics remain the same.

Nick's Teardrop Trailer Page

A cozy compartment for sleeping and an outside kitchen, usually under a lift up hatch in the back. There were many volume manufacturers including Kit, Ken-Skill, Modernistic, Benroy, Kampmaster, Tourette, Scad-A-Bout among others. Several designs were sold as kits as well as factory assembled models. Some designs were also manufactured by more than one company.

Along with all the factory built models, there were many, many more homemade designs or trailers built from plans available either in magazines or books or through advertising. Below are examples of different designs. Www.popupcamperhistory.com/familycampingtrailer.pdf. Teardrop and Other Trailer Designs. Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers. Hall of Fame. The Horsebox - Canopy & Stars. Over Vintage camperFan - Vintage CamperFan - VW T2 - Surf busjes. Surfbus, Flowerpower, Happiness, Retro, Hippiebusje.

Over Vintage camperFan - Vintage CamperFan - VW T2 - Surf busjes

Our Home Built Teardrop Trailer. By Rebecca Turner After 6 years of living in the real world (aka – not college) we’ve come to the conclusion that the path we are following might not be exactly what we wanted after all.

Our Home Built Teardrop Trailer

We are finding that we are letting the daily grind of our jobs wear us down and aren’t taking the time do the things that make us happy. So after much thought and lots of long talks, we decided it was time to ‘turn-about’ and make some changes. Photo Credits: Rebecca Turner We have always loved camping and have longed to take a great cross country road trip.

In researching trailers, we found a lot of photos and websites selling trailers and plans. Cricket Trailer: "The covered wagon for the new frontier" The Cricket Trailer is what happens when NASA engineering meets camping trailers.

Cricket Trailer: "The covered wagon for the new frontier"

This funky shaped trailer is designed to be towed by all kinds of vehicles and offer you exactly what you need without the excess you don't. View all Garrett Finney has had a fascination with small, outdoor-connected living spaces since his childhood in the 1970s. He transformed that passion into a logical career path as a NASA engineer working on habitation modules for the International Space Station. Living Van Vintage. My Living Van Living vans are like caravans, but usually more heavily built to withstand commercial use.

Living Van Vintage

This one was built by Cheshire County Council around 1955, it stands nine feet high and is about ten feet long, and weighs about a ton. There is a small brass plaque inside which says Roads and Bridges Dept DIST.no.3NO.210/17 If anyone knows exactly what these numbers refer to, I would like to hear from you. Ex Cheshire County Council Living van and 1955. 86" Landrover.

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Travel trailer. The Perfect Transforming Caravan for Travelers (15 pics) Vardo. A few photos here, from our July workshop in Massachusetts where Tristan Chambers and Libby Reinish from Whittleddown.com, who handbuilt this cool, strap/hoop-top caravan, served as guests/demonstrators for our twenty-two attendees.

Vardo

Mini RV trailer. Pretty Chic Little Camper. Camping Tents. Snowbirds in Florida. One of our readers, Royal sent this to me the other day and I wanted to share this unique home with you. On Monday 11/02/2009 Royal saw this trailer in the parking lot of WalMart in Mariana, Florida. This little home is certainly distinctive! Due to the signs on the back of the trailer (Neenah, WI – Tampa, FL) and the owner saying they had come to Florida for the winter…I assume they are snowbirds. The owner said the following may be hard to believe, but the left rear corner of the trailer was run into by a car driver … IN BROAD DAYLIGHT! The owner had to straighten it out and used hose clamps to pull the back and side together again … and used lots of caulk on both the outside and the inside to water-proof it.

Scamp Travel Trailers. Surveyor Ultralight Travel Trailers. Casita Travel Trailers. Dutchman Travel Trailers. Dirks diy camper trailer. Holspeed Mk11 a homebuilt camper - on a budget Like many camper trailer owners we started out tenting.

dirks diy camper trailer

After a number of successive wet camping trips late in 2007 our 10 year old tent was showing its age and I figured there must be a better way to stay dry but still retain the camping atmosphere. Friends of ours had a camper trailer and after checking out their setup I concluded this was the way to go. As the subtitle says this was to be a budget build - sourcing well priced materials, utilising what hardware I already had, and doing as much of the work as possible myself.

Like a number of CamperTrailers members have done I simply intended to purchase a complete tent top off the internet and bolt it to our old box trailer. The trailer Some years ago I obtained, quite cheaply, a second hand 7'x5' box trailer. A visit to the local steel merchant saw me stocked with various bits of RHS, angle and flat sections. Airstream trailer.

ShareThis Airstream, the proud manufacturer of the world's finest travel trailers, has combined creative forces with Victorinox Swiss Army to produce the Victorinox 125th Anniversary Special Edition Airstream.

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This limited Special Edition 19 foot travel trailer is unlike any other Airstream ever produced, featuring Victorinox-inspired design elements coupled with Airstream's famous quality construction. The result is a stunning and unique travel trailer that represents the pinnacle of both design and functionality. Like the legendary Swiss Army Knife, the details of the trailer are precise, clean and sure to last a lifetime.