Hi Everyone. Well, after 15 years the RV-Dreams Community Forum is coming to an end. Since it began in August 2005, we've had 58 Million page views, 124,000 posts, and we've spent about $15,000 to keep this valuable resource for RVers free and open. But since we are now off the road and have settled down for the next chapter of our lives, we are taking the Forum down effective June 30, 2021. It has been a tough decision, but it is now time.
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We had a chance to stop into the RV Museum and Hall of Fame in Elkhart, IN on the way back east from SD. I highly recommend you stop in if you have a chance to see how far we have come and also how we still do the same things over the last 100 years!
From all that I've seen online, I have yet to find the oldie that I have been looking for. When I was a kid, my folks finally bought what (I think) was called a Quick Camp. It was basically like a cigar box on wheels with a split diagonally at each end. When the top of the "box" was lifted up and over, it became the floor and the bottom of the "box" was the bed and stove area. When opened up, then a canvas "tent-like" device was raised to enclose the camper.
If you, or anyone else ever have the chance to see one of those, I'd love to have any pictures that one could get.
Terry
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Terry and Jo
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Terry, last time I saw one was in '72, '73? My folks had one. I believe you could build the box from a kit and buy the tent part. We moved up to a 18' Shasta from that...
My last sticks and bricks was down the street from some guy with a junk yard in the back acreage, which included vintage Airstreams, Silver Streaks and other post-war aircraft aluminum classics. It was sort of my inspiration, although I settled for a new fiberglass model. Those oldies are fabulous, but they needed time, money and space. Eventually someone bought up all the Airsteams at once.
We saw it two years ago as part of the Heartland Rally. Yes, it was interesting, but since we were with a group (on chartered buses) we pretty much had to stick to their schedule. Some day we'll be back there and spend a bit more time.