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Hey There Travelvw, Great looking rig. I’m in Springpatch as well and haven’t seen this around. It would have certainly gotten my attention. Good luck with the sale. What’s the next project? dd

Spent the weekend working on some finishing touches. I had some sheet aluminum bent up to make the corner trim. Some cutting and shaping and each corner of the trailer has a finish cap. You can also see the Coleman decal in this picture. I’m considering adding vinyl lettering below Coleman -...

Just about camp-ready. I got the fold down dinette squared away this weekend along with a few other odds and ends. It’s just about ready to camp. The maiden voyage is Devil’s den State Park in AR the first weekend in May. I might have to do a shakedown run prior to May to see what I am...

Ah yes, soapy water and more than a few expletives does the trick. Thank you to everyone for the encouragement and for following along. The Colorado is just about camp-ready and I can see nights spent around a roaring fire in the not so distance future. dd

Someone needs to snatch this thing up. No relations to seller. caveat emptor. Craigslist ad: http://fortsmith.craigslist.org/rvs/4367359866.html dd

Hey. Thanks for the kind words. I feel like I’m making some progress. I got the new Bear Creek canvas stretched out and installed today. I’m very happy with the quality of the tent canvas. An added surprise was that three of the four zip open windows have plastic inserts to allow for...

The access door came from ColawRV on I44 near Carthage Missouri. http://colawrvsalvage.com/ It’s sort of a Valhalla of a place to someone cobbling together an RV or pop-up camper. It’s like a pick and pull salvage yard but with every size, shape and configuration of camping vessel. I went...

Here are a few pictures of the recent work. This is how the trailer will roll when hitched to the Toyota. The trailer sits pretty close to level when hooked up. The support rods will drop down from the bed when deployed. The ends of the support pieces will sit in these curved cups...

No big updates to report. I’ve been sweating the small stuff on the Colorado the past few weeks. I’ve got LED taillights and side marker lights wired up, re-worked the military safety chains, and have had some welding done for the leveling jacks. Last week I made a call to Bear Creek...

Funny I would come across this thread after recently chasing down a new belt to replace a well used old friend. A belt seems like an odd thing to be so attached to. However I’ve had this old belt for 25 years plus. I’ve got pictures as a college freshman with a 2 D cell maglite strapped to...

Today I was able to get the second seat box mounted and the flooring completed. For flooring I decided on vinyl plank. The flooring was designed to be floating and not glued to the subfloor. I wasn’t so keen on not attaching the flooring to the trailer so I used some construction adhesive on...

Beautiful (60 degree) January day in southern Missouri. I got a good amount of work done on the Fraken-lorado. I had originally wanted to do the interior walls in some sort of wainscoting. I thought this would give a cottage look. The wainscoting didn’t work out the way I wanted so I went...

Winter has slowed progress to a halt. I have disassembled the Colorado and it now resides in the no-mans-land between our house and the neighbors. The shell built up on the M101a is about ready for the tent structure to be transferred over. If I can catch a couple warm weekends in January or...

Thanks Mark, Green it is. :) Although you really can’t tell from the pictures. My original plan was for box for the pop-up to be skinned in aluminum. When I got the estimate from the sheet metal guy my aluminum balloon was quickly deflated. I had the sheet metal bent up and a couple guys...

Far from tire expert here. I might suggest that you look at the Cooper Discover S/T - 255/85R16. I’m running them on a ’09 Gen II with 2.5in lift. Fairly quite at highway speeds. Only thing I don’t like about the tire is it only comes in a Load Range D - 8 ply rated. I much prefer the 10...

The subflooring is in and just got the skin back from the sheet metal guy. Excellent idea FirerescuePW Went ahead and took the trailer to the sheet metal guys and glad I did. Measuring and detailed drawing can only go so far. It was way easier to take the trailer to the pros and tell them...

Ozarker, Being an old Land Rover guy I'm painfully familiar with the issue of electrolysis. I've talked to a couple buddies who have built similar trailers and have utilized a 3M adhesive product the negates the chemical reaction between the dissimilar metals. When the time comes, I'll have...

I'm open to other ideas. I wouldn't do a teardrop in anything but aluminum. The Colorado is a different story. I even considered galvanized sheet metal. I figure if I didn't like the looks of it I could just paint it. I've also been looking into painted aluminum sheets from stock car racing...

A couple rainy weekends have slowed progress on the trailer. I did get the front and rear panels mocked up. After having the panels welded together everything got a coat of primer and paint. The boxed in area is where a small window unit air conditioner will be mounted. I would...

No affiliation and doesn't really look like an m416 to me. Thought I’d pass this along for anyone interested. Caveat emptor. Here’s the link: http://springfield.craigslist.org/cto/3986276376.html Pictures and text from the ad: RARE 1945 Jeep Military Trailer - $1200...