Show Your Age!

1962 Kamp King Koach Cabover. Same year Ford F350 singles. 292 engine. Clark 5-speed transmission. First was over to the right and down. 2nd was all the way to the left and up. Third was straight down from 2nd. Fourth was to the neutral gate then to the center position then back. Overdrive 5th was straight up from there. Got used to shifting it.

My dad had to co sign for the loan from B of A. They did not want to finance some strange gizmo like the camper. Wonderful planning. Everything went for payments and insurance. Had no money to go anywhere.

Trips anywhere meant recruiting friends and they raided their parents cupboards for canned and boxed food. The camper had a pair of car dome lights and a wall mounted mantle LPG lantern. The water was pump stroked at the sink. The ice box held more ice than food. But it was the stairs that ascended up to the cabover that hooked me. The cabover had a sofa bed.

The boys drank beer up there and stomped their feet to go faster. Spent a week at Lake Strawberry in the sierras and almost froze to death. Everybody remembered beer. Ranier Ale green-death. Blankets were forgotten. Canned Chef Boy R Dee spaghetti, the remnants of a sack full of "Don't Cook Tonight call Chicken Delight" order for four. And forgot the church key for the beer. Got up the next morning, lit off the stove, slipped on a pair of swimming trunks walked out on a wood dock and all of us belittled each other until we all jumped in together. My heart almost stopped. Later that day the guy at the gas station told us the last he heard the lake was in the mid forties. I swear I remember coming out of that water like a Poseidon missile. The 2nd night we slept on all our clothes. I had on something like 5 shirts and two pair of pants. It was all saturated with campfire smoke. At midnight I crawled off the cushions and lit the wall lantern. We arrived back home and I'll bet we didn't have three bucks total.

I still have my WWII ration book with the gas stamps still in it. Gas was 10cents a gallon in 1944.

I gues I qualify as part of the mature audience and my 1990 Bounder 27D has the headlight dimmer switch on the floor, does that make the MoHo mature too?

Here's my first owned RV (rented a pop-up, earlier, while in the AF) ... a 1969 Chinook chassis-mount coach on a 1969 GMC one-ton dually. It had a converter that hummed softly and three types of lighting - 120V AC, 12V DC, and propane lamps. It's propane furnace was vented but had no fan ... 100% convection heat from it ... I sure wish RV's still had these type of propane furnaces in them:

Brian in Michigan wrote:
Other than my 66 and 76 vans I'm still driving my first real RV!

Very cool.

Other than my 66 and 76 vans I'm still driving my first real RV!

BurbMan wrote:
Anybody remember when cars had those round things called distributors?

What? They don't have them anymore? How do they run?

We have 5 vehicles and every one of them has a distributor.

Now that Brian in Michigan scored the Appletons - WHAT WAS YOU ALL'S FIRST R.V. AND DESCRIBE IT COMFORT, HI TECH STUFF LIKE LIGHTING, BATHING, THE COLD FOOD STORAGE...

Now this otta be interesting........

I guess nobody worked on trucks.Split rims and tubes
95 HP flathead 6 and 5.89 gears and 9;00 16 tires

Drove to high school 1960 in 1939 Caddy.



Gas wars 1970.



My shop when I was about 16.



Old way to print a picture 1973.



Data Acquisition system 1970.