patrick66
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Owned everything from a tent, to two teardrop trailers, a Shasta "canned ham", and five Class C motorhomes. Honestly, the most fun my wife and I have had camping, is with my first teardrop that I owned in 1986. Pulled that with my '66 Coronet. Just us two, we went to several state parks with that and had a great time!
The canned ham was a 1955 model, inherited from my older brother, who died almost three years ago. Pulled it back from CO to OK without any issues. My heart just wasn't in restoring that trailer. I'd get pretty emotional whenever I went to work on. Sold that to a couple in western OK, who proceeded to take that and their two dogs on a 5K-mile road trip through AZ, CA, Baja, back up the coast to Vancouver, BC; then back through Yellowstone and then home to OK. The sent me about 50 pics of their journey. I was so happy to see their enjoyment of that rig, as that is precisely what my brother had intended to do.
I'm building a '69 Dodge D300 flatbed, and intend to install a 4BT Cummins with later 5-speed trans. Then, it's on to an 18' single-axle TT. Something light enough to pull without drama, and big enough to be comfy. We were considering a friend's Blue Bird MH recently, but it hasn't been on the road regularly for nearly a decade, and it's at that stage where a guy would have to put a minimum of $30K additional in it to make it dependable and usable.
One of these days, perhaps the leadership of that country North of us will get its head out of its *** and allow Americans back in. Banff National Park is on my must-see list. I'd like to actually see the park, and not just in pictures.
The canned ham was a 1955 model, inherited from my older brother, who died almost three years ago. Pulled it back from CO to OK without any issues. My heart just wasn't in restoring that trailer. I'd get pretty emotional whenever I went to work on. Sold that to a couple in western OK, who proceeded to take that and their two dogs on a 5K-mile road trip through AZ, CA, Baja, back up the coast to Vancouver, BC; then back through Yellowstone and then home to OK. The sent me about 50 pics of their journey. I was so happy to see their enjoyment of that rig, as that is precisely what my brother had intended to do.
I'm building a '69 Dodge D300 flatbed, and intend to install a 4BT Cummins with later 5-speed trans. Then, it's on to an 18' single-axle TT. Something light enough to pull without drama, and big enough to be comfy. We were considering a friend's Blue Bird MH recently, but it hasn't been on the road regularly for nearly a decade, and it's at that stage where a guy would have to put a minimum of $30K additional in it to make it dependable and usable.
One of these days, perhaps the leadership of that country North of us will get its head out of its *** and allow Americans back in. Banff National Park is on my must-see list. I'd like to actually see the park, and not just in pictures.
Parents had 1976 26' Brave just like that, literally scared the crap out of an Amish horse in Lancaster PA.
