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Red-hot trailer brochure models
AsidesCampertramps: Saucy pictures of models from 1970s Komfort Travel Trailers brochures. Good work from the fellas at RetroCrush!
Best of YouTube
AsidesWatch: How Not To Tow A Caravan and Caravan with Renault 1.4 turbo engine.
Dusseldorf Caravan Salon madness #2
AsidesThere’s only one thing that can top the silliness of VW’s California camper-based Topos concept, and that’s Fiat’s Portofino nautical-themed buggy. Words fail us.
Dusseldorf Caravan Salon madness #1
AsidesYou can always rely on the big RV shows to reveal some pointless concepts from Euro manufacturers, usually based on their small vans. Here’s the first from the 2008 Dusseldorf Caravan Salon: the VW Topos Caddy Sail Design Concept.
Swedish road sign No. 1.9.2.30
AsidesHow a cloverleaf symbol used in Scandinavian campgrounds became the symbol of the Macintosh command key.
Sites for sore eyes
AsidesForbes Traveler magazine (“The Best in Luxury Travel”) gets down and dirty, naming America’s Best Campgrounds—including clothing-optional Juniper Woods in Catskill, N.Y.
Family denied access to Falkenberg campsites
AsidesSwedish family buys 1964 Eccles Moonstone, refused entry to campgrounds: ‘Your caravan is just too ugly‘.
NASA’s trailer trash
AsidesBeautiful images of a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory trailer abandoned near Bishop, in California.
Even smaller than a Bambi
AsidesCustom Airstream chopper and sidecar combo created by West Coast Choppers. WCC owner Jesse James reportedly built this bike in return for a travel trailer for his wife Sandra Bullock.
Kick Ass Speed Boats
AsidesExtraordinary shots of airborne powerboats. Taken at a 1970s race promoted by Hiroaki ‘Rocky’ Aoki, owner of the Japanese restaurant chain Benihana.
