Vintage Trailers
I came across an story in a car mag on camping trailers. Thought it would be fun to share with the community. I normally stay in the class C forum, I hope I am posting this in the correct place. Mo...
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Jim Shoe wrote:
My first road trip was in a borrowed homemade teardrop trailer like that. I was six years old and my Dad towed it with a brand new '52 Oldsmobile 88, using a bumper pull. My Mom and I slept in the trailer and my Dad slept in the back seat of the car. We made it to the Badlands of South Dakota and back to Cincinnati in two weeks. No expressways back then. About 3000 miles, all on secondary roads. No expressways back in 1952. The Interstate Highway Act wasn't passed until 1956.
Those were the days, Jim. Stopping at the
Mom & Pops lining two lanes and having old school meatloaf and mashed taters floating in homemade gravy, slabs of pie and fresh coffee...yeah baby!
