Great. It is set to record. I have an old 1948 Detroiter. Looks like a canned hamb. All flat aluminum side panels. A real POS. needs completely torn apart and rebuilt. I always wanted and old polished up canned hamb and saw it for sale cheap and jumped on it. My wife doesn't get it but we'll see what she has to say about it when its fixed up.
Scott That is what my wife thought at one time. That was 17 builds and/or restorations ago, including some that were polished, Now she is really getting into them, making curtains, quilts and such. Currently have a wood strip teardrop, a '70 Yukon, a one-of-a-kind '57 Metzendorf, and just sold a '69 Scotty. Here is a shot of a '60 Scotty that I polished
I've had interest in the vintage trailers for a long time. I just posted an ad in the classifieds for my '64 Frolic. I'd like to sell it and concentrate on getting my '41 Ford pickup done by spring! Anyway, the old trailers are cool and speak volumes of a by gone era.
Been thinking about a teardrop behind my 50 woodie,this thread really gets me fired up for another project.
Here's an update on the Tini-Home project, which has it's own build thread here called "Canned Hamb". It's coming along.
got this little pop up today. I found on on you-tube just like it labled as a 1965 Apache, but the comments everyone seems to think its a Appleby, so I dont know for sure what it is. Any ideas?
It does resemble an Apache, but what points me toward Appleby is the flat sheet metal covering the trailer tongue area. Look at the pictures below and you'll see what I mean. The Apache is on the left, Appleby on the right. You can find more Appleby photos here: http://incolor.inebraska.com/elassley_bie/appleby/appleby.html
That's it on the left, the clamps are even in the same place. Thank you Mr. Mayo! I'm off to see if I can find some pictures with it open.
In the spirit of the black and white photo of the Ford trucks and campers posted on previous page, here is my truck and camper.
Here we are ready to head out with the propane fired hot tub on a trailer that I built. The 2 piece lid is lifted off and pinned into brackets on the side, making 2 large steps to help drunken campers safely make their way in and out. The tail lights are early Cougar units mounted vertical. Sorry the motorbike isn't vintage. Here is an idea of how it is setup. This was behind my old Barth motorhome that I used to have.
I had a 1968 Appleby and I met another guy who lives about three miles from me that had one as well. That looks just like the two I've seen. The Apache models had the entrance at the rear end of the trailer.
Here's an old GMC motorhome I see at car shows in our area: Yeah...It's big! I would be very tempted to swap out the "GMC" letters for "BIG" !!!
Home built trolley top camper. All aluminum................Yes, it's a toy only 4' long..............i was bored
Nice rig. It'd be hard to choose between that and towing the A/S! The truck camper interior is killer. Brian
If I had more time I'd like to build a canned ham like that. I like the wash tub fenders that I had't noticed before. Do you have any build details? Wall material, etcetera?
Yes, it may be big, but it sure is ugly! We've seen it at several TCT events, and it does have a V6, I assumed it was the 305, actually I didn't know they came bigger. The rig has an interesting history, it was built by an evangelical preacher, who toured and traveled with it for his traveling minstrel show. Whether or not it helped him inspire people to come to Jesus is uncertain, but it IS inspiring in it's own way. It's suffered from a galley fire at some point, and the interior is (or was the last time we saw it) mostly gutted. The owners (at that time used) it to haul their motorsickles and dirt bikes in, so it gets used, although not in the way it's orginal builder intended. Pretty cool rig. We wondered about the plate glass front window in the wind, but the owner opined that it wasn't capable of going fast enough to generate much headwind! Brian
The GMC V6 came as big as 478ci but I think that was the Diesel version. Interesting history, I could see a big couch at the window to watching the world go by.
Found this on another site, thought you'd enjoy them... http://flavorwire.com/270693/gypsy-wagos-romantic-adventurous-and-liberating-design?all=1
I'm making progress on our '53 "Tini-Home", aka "Canned HAMB Project". More pics and other goofy stuff at "Cool McCoo's Garage": http://flynbrian48.wordpress.com/ Brian
The Jalopy Journal
