Some of the {car|truck}/trailer combos are just beautiful!!
That old Airstream looks like it’s so tiny you have to back out of it to change your mind…
To me, my 34′ Motor Coach is just barely big enough to camp in – my days of tent camping are loooong gone.
3 Old caboose strip it, side it, viola. 4 Road up top Grampa’s camper many an hour looking out that front window.
Cederq, although it’s nearly half a century ago, do you remember laying under a piece of canvas or plastic sheet, during army training? Or did they already have air-conditioned tents for you by then? You’ve been posting some good pics, the ones from the ’50s to late ’70s often with the owner’s pride in their setup evident. But don’t any Yanks sleep a bit rougher when you go bush? I suppose you have more predators to fear, not all on 4 legs.
I like old campers, much as I enjoy old trucks and trains. Campers today look like all the damn shit cars they produce. I went into the Army in 1975, so, 47 years later, you were close, before that I was a Boy Scout when you could be proud of that. I slept out on tarps and under pup tents and Baker tents. We didn’t have the air and heated swanky prefabs they have today, no wonder we lost Afghanistan. We pissed and crapped in a latrine or a canner. Too many people are spoiled and want to bring their home with them. I admit I like my bed, I like my toilet and my refer, but I do not have a TV in it but a car AM/FM Cassette player. I am too old, too cranky and crippled to sleep on the ground…
Amen, bro – my father had surplus Korean Conflict ponchos, you could snap ’em together to make any size covering you wanted. That and the “mummy” sleeping bags, we did quite well with the old surplus WWII and Korean War utensils, canteens, etc.
And Survival School training for us Explorer Scouts at Fairchild AFB was a hoot! Tough, but a hoot! (This was back in ’66 when parents had a brain…)
“like my toilet and my reefer” Riightt, so you’re rolling joints from toilet paper? No wonder there was panic buying.
Some of the {car|truck}/trailer combos are just beautiful!!
That old Airstream looks like it’s so tiny you have to back out of it to change your mind…
To me, my 34′ Motor Coach is just barely big enough to camp in – my days of tent camping are loooong gone.
3 Old caboose strip it, side it, viola. 4 Road up top Grampa’s camper many an hour looking out that front window.
Cederq, although it’s nearly half a century ago, do you remember laying under a piece of canvas or plastic sheet, during army training? Or did they already have air-conditioned tents for you by then? You’ve been posting some good pics, the ones from the ’50s to late ’70s often with the owner’s pride in their setup evident. But don’t any Yanks sleep a bit rougher when you go bush? I suppose you have more predators to fear, not all on 4 legs.
I like old campers, much as I enjoy old trucks and trains. Campers today look like all the damn shit cars they produce. I went into the Army in 1975, so, 47 years later, you were close, before that I was a Boy Scout when you could be proud of that. I slept out on tarps and under pup tents and Baker tents. We didn’t have the air and heated swanky prefabs they have today, no wonder we lost Afghanistan. We pissed and crapped in a latrine or a canner. Too many people are spoiled and want to bring their home with them. I admit I like my bed, I like my toilet and my refer, but I do not have a TV in it but a car AM/FM Cassette player. I am too old, too cranky and crippled to sleep on the ground…
Amen, bro – my father had surplus Korean Conflict ponchos, you could snap ’em together to make any size covering you wanted. That and the “mummy” sleeping bags, we did quite well with the old surplus WWII and Korean War utensils, canteens, etc.
And Survival School training for us Explorer Scouts at Fairchild AFB was a hoot! Tough, but a hoot! (This was back in ’66 when parents had a brain…)
“like my toilet and my reefer” Riightt, so you’re rolling joints from toilet paper? No wonder there was panic buying.