'71 Airstream Caravel

[tearible]

http://houston.craigslist.org/rvs/1050699564.html

For anyone needing a little (alot) more room.

[Pottercounty]

I wonder why they are nicknamed Canned Hams? I alway thought they sorta looked like old Sunbeam toasters...

[George G.]

I wonder why they are nicknamed Canned Hams? I alway thought they sorta looked like old Sunbeam toasters...

The Airstream is not nicknamed a 'Canned Ham'. It's just like someone calling a T@B a teardrop. Not!

[dmb90260]

Go here: http://tnttt.com/viewto ... 96&start=0

Chop the front off the Metzendorf and you may have a canned ham but look at Greg's avatar. That is a canned ham but it the term is often used for all trailers of that era even those with square corners like the one in my avatar.

[greg755]

Its not a canned ham, it is a "TearCan"...

Back in the good old days, They sold Hams in a can that you opened with a key. The shape of the can was flat on one side and curved on the other.

Hence they look like a canned ham.