Greetings!
My name is Tom and I have an odd hobby of designing and building scooter cargo trailers. I've built several for my scooters and have been all over Arizona camping with them. The cargo trailers are small...just big enough to pack a tent and some food. A few years ago I built a small cargo trailer for my 50cc Honda Ruckus scooter and rode almost 8,000 miles across the US and Mexico. Solo. It was the adventure of a lifetime.
For more than a decade I've wanted to build an actual scooter teardrop trailer that I can sleep in and cook with. A couple weeks ago I pulled the trigger and started the design process. The teardrop will be modeled after the 1947 Cabin Car. I found a bunch of pics online and was able to create cut files from the photographs. Afterwards I built a 12" model out of luan as a proof of concept. Pics are below. The rough size of the teardrop will be 7'L x 3.4'W x 2.5'(ish)H.
I will be pulling the trailer with my 1962 Vespa VBB, 150cc 2-stroke with a 4-speed manual transmission. Pics below.
The trailer has to be featherweight (literally)...so hoping to do the frame out of aluminum or small diameter steel square stock and the body out of 1" thick foam and poor man's fiberglass. Pretty excited to find this group as I'm sure I'll have lots of questions.
Side note: I lost my workshop when The Tech Shop went out of business. I found a fantastic woodworking connection but at a loss for a place to make a simple metal frame. Any TNTTT members in Mesa or Phoenix that has welding equipment or access to a metal fab facility? The frame is the hold up for me. Once I secure that resource I can really get moving.
Thanks in advance!
Tom