Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

Tonight on a PBS rerun Red Green cut a K car in half behind the front seats. He used a garage door and a bunch of chisels. (I know, but this is TV).

Then he duct taped his boat trailer onto the half K, and had a front wheel boat trailer.

We know Red, but. . .

The idea struck me when I saw this the first time: What if you married a tear drop to a front weel drive rig (not with duct tape)? It could be wild.

This is a design project, not for a real engineer, but for cartoonist, perhaps.

dave

A few years back I was kicking around the idea of taking a newer 3/4 ton truck that had a bad body on it and stripping it down to the frame and then putting a cab of a '56 F100 on the front and a small vintage travel trailer on the back. Have what looked to be a vintage Camper. Couldn't find a truck cheap that would work so that idea was shelved.

Have a good day.

I always liked the episode of Red Green where the Lodge built a Giant Bug Zapper out of 24 Bed box springs, then hooked it to the main power grid from Port Asbestoses.

The Power Company told them to take it down or they would cut the power off off to Possum lake. They didn't and they did.

Red had the Idea of getting 10 cars, in shifts and hooking them to the power grid with jumper cabels. 10 cars with 12 volt systems each, 10X12....hey theres your 120 volts, who needs the Power Company.

But the Fish & Game Commission made them take it down because they were catching Geese in it.

Great Show.

Quando Omni Flunkus Mortati

Happy Trails

Len

Gage,

My daughter and son in law own a place in Oregon that came with an early 50's chevy pickup, complete with a really ancient "camper".

The "camper" looks like it was used as a delivery rig once upon a time.

It is resorable, but at a price I am not willing to pay.

Life is full of these "wow" but "not now" moments.

I'll be up there in a few days. I'll grab some photographs of the old rig, it is interesting.

dave

Similar Red/Green idea:

I will be eventually be getting a small commercial truck with roll-off assembly for being able to drop an empty box somewhere, and take the full one back somewhere.

So, come the weekend, the truck would be body-less... Except that I have thought about making some sort of a tear or TTT that would "rolloff" at the campsite... Roll it off in a garage during the week for storage, or have pickup camper jacks to "stand it" on....

Once the body was on the ground, there would be very little of a step to enter the body... Kinda like Steinbecks' camper body on a pickup chassis but removable. (But no Charley for company.)

John,

If you have a rig whose body comes off, why not have a body "for the fun of it all."

Sounds interesting.

dave

dwgriff1 wrote:The idea struck me when I saw this the first time: What if you married a tear drop to a front weel drive rig (not with duct tape)? It could be wild.

Yup, but you don't need one o' them huge K cars to do it - here is pretty much the same idea using an original Mini - 162" long x 63" wide x 63" high



It's a 1960s Mini Wildgoose, pages 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Andrew

Yup, but you don't need one o' them huge K cars to do it - here is pretty much the same idea using an original Mini - 162" long x 63" wide x 63" high

Andrew

Oh boy. I just thought of a great use for that VW type 4 my neighbor wants to get rid of

-Greg

Andrew

There is no end to the real cool little Urpean campers.

Thanks for reminding us!!

dave

Here's that pickup camper ready to be restored, but not by me!

http://tnttt.com/album_ ... c_id=10473

dave

dwgriff1

(not with duct tape)?

No Duct Tape don't you know that

Duct Tape is the handymans secret weapon

Robert

Greg M wrote:

Yup, but you don't need one o' them huge K cars to do it - here is pretty much the same idea using an original Mini - 162" long x 63" wide x 63" high

Andrew

Oh boy. I just thought of a great use for that VW type 4 my neighbor wants to get rid of

-Greg

Greg and Andrew,

Here's a similar idea using a VW Beetle (from quite a few years ago!).

http://www.rqriley.com/imagespln/mini-h4a.jpg

Now there is no reason you couldn't take a small front wheel drive car and cut off the back and build a teardrop on it.