Our first TV, we've come a long way..
We were kids (is what I'm telling) when we started pulling a travel trailer. Our first TV was a 1977 F-150. We towed without fear where ever we wanted to go, coast or mountains. I added an extra le...
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RPreeb wrote:
Not mine, but the first TV in the family was the year I graduated from High School, a '61 Chevy Bel Air 4 door that looked like this one, but without the rear roof overhang. 283 V8 and Power Glide tranny. Dad towed a 15 foot Cascade Coach around Montana, Wyoming, and Alberta (Banff and Jasper) throughout the summer of 1964.
The next year he'd had enough of fighting the Chevy and traded for a '65 Dodge Polara 383 2dr HT, and had air bags installed for towing. It wasn't a truck, but it was a lot more capable than the Bel Air.
My first real TV is the F-150 I have right now... I only restarted trailer camping last summer with a small popup and a Honda Ridgeline. Did quite a bit of tent camping and backpacking in the 70's and 80's.
My grandfather had a homebuilt popup camper. The tent was made of canvas. We would borrow it and my dad towed it with a late 1960s Dodge station wagon. Apparently that trailer was really heavy because my dad complained about it.
