Vintage RV, (powered)anyone built one?

There's also another one like this somewhere out there..I used to have a picture

 

Circus truck travelled from town to town.

 

This is killer

 

I got this one for the asking. It was gutted inside. Single axle, 18 foot. Once I got it home, I quickly decided I was over my head for a possible rebuild inside, but thought of using the skin to make a teardrop. That's really what I wanted anyway, but showed my fiance at the time what a teardrop was and she said "I'm not going to want to sleep in one of those."

So this now sits behind a buddy's corncrib, taking a beating from the weather. I could never find any info on the manufacturer. Travel-Ette out of Kansas City area. Tail lights are glass. Driver's side door behind the axle.

 

Not an RV per say but it hauled all our camp gear. I made the frame out of 2x2’s and the aluminum skin and sliding window from a 2nd hand metal salvage yard in Lomita Ca.. Our son was 4. He’s 55 now. The 1953 Dodge started as a fh 6 and ended up with the guts of a 60 Chrysler. 361 and torqueflite. Used the hub caps too. Could kick some butt in its day. One I should have kept.

 

Well that was stupid.

 

Them Boys sure do know how to have fun . Lol

 

Of course it was stupid. It’s”un-reality” TV.

 

Here's a pretty cool bookmobile by Gerstenslager. At one time, converted to living quarters inside. Currently on auction, online at bigiron dot com with a bunch of other HAMBable cars/trucks on Dec 8th. This is not mine, or anything else on the auction, just passing along info.

 

The ultimate slide in

 

Morons in motion!

 

Oooooooh

 

You have any more pictures of that thing?

 

4x4 GMC bus ?

 

No. I wished I did

 

a motor home designed by the guy’s father in 1962 who took his family in a station wagon to Yellowstone National Park and back, then made this out of a 1962 Ford Econoline with a custom-built aircraft aluminum body.

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2022/04/rawlings-found-out-about-abandoned.html

 

NEAT!

 

I would have to paint that with a roller.

 

I wouldn’t paint it at all

 

Already have the conversion started, Fresh 6-71T engine
This needs to be yours!

 

Those 2 stroke Detroit Diesels are fascinating engines. Sound cool too.