How rare are Flippacs?

[austintaco]

Still being a Flippac Freshman, I am getting used to people asking me about it whenever I have it set up. However, this weekend in Big Bend, we were camped in a very domesticated campground, Rio Grande Village, that had everything from tents to RV's. During our two night stay, we must have shown our explained the Flippac to a dozen people, with many other "looky Loo's" that slowed down to check it out or even over hearing someone else talking about it.

This made me think, "how rare are flippacs?" Any idea how many are out there? I had never seen one in person until I picked this one up, and I am in TX.

 

[Rallyroo]

When I was in Moab with my buddy who has a Flippac on his Frontier dozens of people came up to ask about the Flippac and/or pulled out a camera to take pictures of it.

You could carry brochures and hand them out so that you won't have to explain the entire process over and over. And then just spend time talking generally how you like it, etc.

 

[austintaco]

It's not a problem. I don't mind talking to new folks about the flippac or comparing ideas. That's what we do here Most of the conversations start with "how do you get into that?", and then we would end up showing them the inside, and explaining how the hammock area works. The conversation would usually end with me spelling out "flippac" and saying to google "Flippac, adventure trailers" or "Flippac expeditionportal.com"

 

[WASURF63]

Had the same thing happen here, EVERYWHERE, while I owned my ATFP. I was starting to feel like the PacNW spokesperson...
Traveling all over this region I've yet to see another Flippac (although I'm sure a few must exist). I often thought a few AdventureTrailers business cards stashed in the glove box would be handy, but never got around to requesting any from the guys.

 

[Shurppa]

Thats a good question. I have wandered myself how many units have been sold since they first started makeing them. I'm sure A.T. would have a good number on how many they have sold. I don't know about FRP.

 

[DaveInDenver]

LOL! Been driving around with a WilderNest forever and know all about this! Flippacs and 'Nest aren't super rare in Colorado, but I get it all the time (I do carry photos of it set-up just for this reason). You know the most in tune folks seems to be the retiree and snowbird crowd, they know everything there is to know about RV'ing and when they see something new they are very curious. I've never met anyone who was inquisitive who was not nice, great way to strike up a conversation.

 

[brian90744]

Still being a Flippac Freshman, I am getting used to people asking me about it whenever I have it set up. However, this weekend in Big Bend, we were camped in a very domesticated campground, Rio Grande Village, that had everything from tents to RV's. During our two night stay, we must have shown our explained the Flippac to a dozen people, with many other "looky Loo's" that slowed down to check it out or even over hearing someone else talking about it.

This made me think, "how rare are flippacs?" Any idea how many are out there? I had never seen one in person until I picked this one up, and I am in TX.

I run into the same thing, I had Flip-Pac send me 5 brochures, made copies. Now I pass them out to the looky-loo's, I guess the $4500 price makes most say NO WAY.
BTW check the hatch reply.
brian

 

[ETAV8R]

I see them on the roads here in socal once in a while. I always try to take a pic. I think I've seen more flippacs on the road than hardside slide in pop-ups like FWC, Phoenix, etc.

 

[VDBAZFJ]

Regarding the Flippacs...what is the tent material like? In comparison to an Eezi-Awn RTT, is it as thick? As waterproof? A lot of the pics I see... the material looks incredibly thin. Is it an illusion or...? Thanks!

 

[timber]

The one I have is probably 20-25 yrs old and the tent is still in good shape, It is a thinner material than the eezi awn I had , It is not waterproof or even resistant without some kind of treatment . It does seem like it is a quality material judging by the age of mine and the shape it is in, even if it was used very little by the previous owners. I am not sure if they are still using the same materials or even tent maker for the newer ones?

 

[austintaco]

Regarding the Flippacs...what is the tent material like? In comparison to an Eezi-Awn RTT, is it as thick? As waterproof? A lot of the pics I see... the material looks incredibly thin. Is it an illusion or...? Thanks!

According to this thread that contains the owner's manual: http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/13866-Flippac-owner-s-manual
the tent is a woven polyester fabric. FRP then recommends to seam seal it and how to wash it, etc..