You very first TC...
OMG ...dug up this relic...how far I have come....19 years ago!!:B and my first truck upgrade, holdown and airbag package....Wow what a difference that made..LOL!
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You guys had really nice first campers!
Mine was a 1969 Security 8’. No hot water, no heat, ice box, no bathroom.
I carried it on a 1959 Chevy 3/4 ton stepside. The next one was a 1967 Security 10’ on a 1967 Chevy.
It had a heater, and a toilet that was pretty much a metal can with a seat.
Both of those campers had jacks that were as manual as it gets, on the ‘67 you set a portable bottle jack on the one you were lifting, jacked it up a few inches, pinned the jack leg in place, then reset the bottle jack higher on the leg and did it again, on each jack, until it was up or down.
On the ‘69, it was the freestanding tripods you stood up beside the camper. You just set the angle iron against the sides - it didn’t attach and the camper barely hung on to the edge of each one - and cranked a winch and cable thing. It was up to you to balance it right.
Both had manual-pump cold-only sinks, with tiny fresh tanks, and drains that went straight overboard through the wall and onto the ground.
That’s how pretty much all camper sink drains were.
They had gas lamps on the wall, plumbed to the propane tank. Those actually worked great and gave a really nice warm glow. They were quite bright if turned up.
The windows were those crank-open louver slat type that didn’t seal very well at all when closed offered almost no resistance to cold. But... they worked great in summer, the whole thing opened and you could leave ‘em open in the rain if it wasn’t too severe.
Mine was a 1969 Security 8’. No hot water, no heat, ice box, no bathroom.
I carried it on a 1959 Chevy 3/4 ton stepside. The next one was a 1967 Security 10’ on a 1967 Chevy.
It had a heater, and a toilet that was pretty much a metal can with a seat.
Both of those campers had jacks that were as manual as it gets, on the ‘67 you set a portable bottle jack on the one you were lifting, jacked it up a few inches, pinned the jack leg in place, then reset the bottle jack higher on the leg and did it again, on each jack, until it was up or down.
On the ‘69, it was the freestanding tripods you stood up beside the camper. You just set the angle iron against the sides - it didn’t attach and the camper barely hung on to the edge of each one - and cranked a winch and cable thing. It was up to you to balance it right.
Both had manual-pump cold-only sinks, with tiny fresh tanks, and drains that went straight overboard through the wall and onto the ground.
That’s how pretty much all camper sink drains were.
They had gas lamps on the wall, plumbed to the propane tank. Those actually worked great and gave a really nice warm glow. They were quite bright if turned up.
The windows were those crank-open louver slat type that didn’t seal very well at all when closed offered almost no resistance to cold. But... they worked great in summer, the whole thing opened and you could leave ‘em open in the rain if it wasn’t too severe.
