My name is Scott and have fallen across this fantastic website in my search for details and inspiration regarding teardrop trailers!
I live on an island in the County of Essex, just outside of London, in England. The teardrop caravan (trailer?) idea is not unheard of over hear, but definately not as common as full size caravans.
I have sneaked a few peaks at the forum in the past couple of weeks and found it to be interesting and full of information from, what seems like, a great bunch of people.
Well I suppose I should outline my intentions first.
I drive one of these!
A 1991 Rover Mini!
I attend a few shows with the car and the facts are like this.
The car is (roughly) 10 foot long and 5 foot wide and about 5 foot high! I'm 6 foot 4 inches tall and rather lumpy
When attending shows I find that the weekends camping is spoilt by the fact that the tents I have tried all seem to be a tad small in the sleeping areas (also cold, damp and prone to being let down in the night by jokers
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I rather fancy building a smallish teardrop to pull behind the Mini, for two main reasons 1. Their small and neat 2. Far superior over tents and appeal to my (typical) guy nature of just turning up and not having to mess about putting up a tent!
The main problems I am having is trying to find suppliers who can help me with various items, such as decent hinges and other fittings and certainly struggling to find decent plans.
However I shall be undertaking all the work myself and look forward to building the teardrop.
I will however apologise now as I'm sure as the project progresses I'll be asking more and more questions.
And will certainly be on the look out for any other British teardrop owners to chat with and share expertise and problem solving
Anyway I have waffled enough, many thanks if you read this far and I hope to speak to some of you soon.
Scott
to the playground Scott. I have no doubt you will be wonderfully entertained doing your build. Free plans and they are great even if modified so get to it.
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