Hello Fornesto,
I've been studying your off road trailer sketches. I really like your ideas. I mean REALLY like them! So much so that, if you don't mind, my son and I are going to build one. I'm serious about this. I have a fully equipped welding shop and nothing much to do lately.
We've been teardroping and/or RVing for over 30 years. I purchased an old U S Forrest Service 'Hot Shot' Fire Crew Bus about 20 years ago and turned it into a fully equipped motorhome. It was a very short bus (5 windows on one side) with extended roof (6'6"). It had 15 forward speeds, Detroit Locker rear end, skid plates underneath etc. A very durable off road vehicle. I invested over $20K on the interior doing all the work myself. The bus served our family of myself, Olga and three boys very well and we put well over 100,000 miles on it before I retired it due to terrible gas mileage. If you are interested in seeing what it looked like, I can send you a couple of photos.
Anyway, I recently restored a 1947 Cub that we also used very much and gave it to my oldest son as a wedding present and have recently ordered a new Camp-Inn 550 Ultra 550 SUV to pull behind our Nissan Xterra.
My son and his wife don't fit very well in the 4 foot wide Cub so he is going to sell it and we will build your version of an off road teardrop. The only radical change we will make is that it will be 5 feet wide.
Please let me know if you are OK with us copying your ideas. I hope to hear from you and also invite you to come visit us and watch the progress. We live in the Siskiyou National Forest and there are plenty of great places to go off roading and camping in the wood right on our land and all around us for that matter. Check out my album.
My email address is
[email protected] what is yours?
Its starting to snow out and Olga is getting on my case to get some more firewood to heat the house so I gotta for now.
Hope to hear from you, Ron