Our Camping History 1963 to 1975
What is it that propels us to travel and camp? Is it something that resides in our itchy bones or is it something instilled by early experience? Maybe some of both, I don't know. My wife has the sa...
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Ron,
Thanks for your great effort posting that wonderful walk down RV memories lane! We've visited near some of those places in our current RV decades later than when your photos were taken.
The DW and myself started our motorized camping before kids in a Dodge van we bought new and converted into a camper that carried a 305 Honda Scrambler motorcycle in a rack on the back for exploring offroad in the deserts.. Later when we had children we bought used from a friend a motorized camper of a type that you are the first in these forums to mention - a chassis mount camper.
Our chassis mount camper was a 1969 Chinook built on a GMC 3500 dually truck frame with a very dangerous design flaw - for some reason it's GMC automatic transmission did not have a Park gear. When parking on slopes we really had to trust the emergency brake.
We made a lot of early family RV'ing memories in that grand old chassis mount. I later sold it for a $1 to a young family man to start building more memories with. Here's a photo of our 1969 GMC Chinook chassis mount - it resembles some chassis mount rigs in your photos:
Thanks for your great effort posting that wonderful walk down RV memories lane! We've visited near some of those places in our current RV decades later than when your photos were taken.
The DW and myself started our motorized camping before kids in a Dodge van we bought new and converted into a camper that carried a 305 Honda Scrambler motorcycle in a rack on the back for exploring offroad in the deserts.. Later when we had children we bought used from a friend a motorized camper of a type that you are the first in these forums to mention - a chassis mount camper.
Our chassis mount camper was a 1969 Chinook built on a GMC 3500 dually truck frame with a very dangerous design flaw - for some reason it's GMC automatic transmission did not have a Park gear. When parking on slopes we really had to trust the emergency brake.
We made a lot of early family RV'ing memories in that grand old chassis mount. I later sold it for a $1 to a young family man to start building more memories with. Here's a photo of our 1969 GMC Chinook chassis mount - it resembles some chassis mount rigs in your photos:
