dieselcruiserhead
16 Years on ExPo. Whoa!!
Hi guys,
From a couple other posts I received some questions about "baby blue" my wife and I's 1973 Travel Trailer and decided to start this thread.
We bought it last fall as a mental commitment to ourselves to go Burning Man 2009 the following year (which we did, probably for the last time, it was great but it has changed a lot as we have maybe possibly as well), and we also took it on a road trip for our 1 year anniversary down to Boulder/Escalante/Capitol Reef and back and these have been our two road trips. We've also taken it up to Guardsman's Pass locally to camp in an area called Brighton Estates which is incredibly rough roads and it's done great. I bought the 2000 Ford as a new daily driver specifically to tow it (which I know is total overkill but I wanted a diesel tow vehicle versus a V8 or even V6 gas).
I forget the manufacturer but if I remember correctly they are Salt Lake City based. It is a little 10' cube and belonged to an old man who maintained it meticulously. We bought it from his son who bought it from him for hunting but hadn't used it yet and the title was still in the father's name. The son had flipped the axle and added brand new 225 75 R 15 heavy duty trailer tires (which was nice) and discarded the original smaller tires whatever size they were. I only know this because when I re-flipped the axle back to its correct position the new larger tires lightly rubbed in the wheelwells. I moved the axle to below the leaf springs and this was great, provided a 'light lift' that has come in great handy but it still tows solid as a rock to even 80-85 mph which I've had with the Ford and with such a tow vehicle it's solid as a rock of course.
Here are the photos. It has a gas range, a Magic Chef fridge (that at first worked intermittently totally awesome and now generally not too well), and apropane furnace that the thermostat has broken on so it's always on). It was custom wired with 110 in addition to its original 12 volt system. It has a battery but no charger for the battery when in 110 mode. It had a bathroom with a portable toilet but Carrie freaked out about it and made me toss it but looking back I should have kept it if even just to put in the back of the truck. She now uses the space as a closet. The trailer is 10', backs up pretty well, but there is nowhere to sit when the bed is in the down position. We like just leaving it in the down position. We like the trailer enough that I'm considering moving the fridge to the closet position and knocking out that wall to make a bench seat area where the fridge is to add the seating. We really like the small 10' size of it all.
From a couple other posts I received some questions about "baby blue" my wife and I's 1973 Travel Trailer and decided to start this thread.
We bought it last fall as a mental commitment to ourselves to go Burning Man 2009 the following year (which we did, probably for the last time, it was great but it has changed a lot as we have maybe possibly as well), and we also took it on a road trip for our 1 year anniversary down to Boulder/Escalante/Capitol Reef and back and these have been our two road trips. We've also taken it up to Guardsman's Pass locally to camp in an area called Brighton Estates which is incredibly rough roads and it's done great. I bought the 2000 Ford as a new daily driver specifically to tow it (which I know is total overkill but I wanted a diesel tow vehicle versus a V8 or even V6 gas).
I forget the manufacturer but if I remember correctly they are Salt Lake City based. It is a little 10' cube and belonged to an old man who maintained it meticulously. We bought it from his son who bought it from him for hunting but hadn't used it yet and the title was still in the father's name. The son had flipped the axle and added brand new 225 75 R 15 heavy duty trailer tires (which was nice) and discarded the original smaller tires whatever size they were. I only know this because when I re-flipped the axle back to its correct position the new larger tires lightly rubbed in the wheelwells. I moved the axle to below the leaf springs and this was great, provided a 'light lift' that has come in great handy but it still tows solid as a rock to even 80-85 mph which I've had with the Ford and with such a tow vehicle it's solid as a rock of course.
Here are the photos. It has a gas range, a Magic Chef fridge (that at first worked intermittently totally awesome and now generally not too well), and apropane furnace that the thermostat has broken on so it's always on). It was custom wired with 110 in addition to its original 12 volt system. It has a battery but no charger for the battery when in 110 mode. It had a bathroom with a portable toilet but Carrie freaked out about it and made me toss it but looking back I should have kept it if even just to put in the back of the truck. She now uses the space as a closet. The trailer is 10', backs up pretty well, but there is nowhere to sit when the bed is in the down position. We like just leaving it in the down position. We like the trailer enough that I'm considering moving the fridge to the closet position and knocking out that wall to make a bench seat area where the fridge is to add the seating. We really like the small 10' size of it all.
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) the latex was awesome/quick/easy to clean up and very cheap ($15 or so for the gallon retail -- we found ours on a discount shelf for $5!). Were I to spray latex again I'd use a 1.8 tip like what you would use for a bed liner or thicker material to simply spray faster. It took me hours of spraying to get it right with a couple coats...
