Touring Jayco facilities to see how the company is making strides to serve customers
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Touring Jayco facilities to see how the company is making strides to serve customers
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Thor announced two new electric RVs but are they the future or just fantasy? And what’s so ground breaking about these two new vehicles? We take a look and see what our crystal ball has to say.
While U-Haul is known for renting moving equipment, the company dabbled in renting travel trailers in the 1980s and those trailers are very collectible with a strong user group today. What’s a U-Haul travel trailer and where can you find one? We have the story.
One of the most collectible vintage trailers is the Holiday House. Though only a few hundred were made these iconic and stylish trailers are a hit at virtually any vintage trailer rally. Plus, you can now buy a new one that’s as good, if not better than, the original.
A story and pictures about Brena Sullivan and her 1953 King Travel Trailer “Queenie”.
The Clark Cortez motorhome was a unique, front-wheel-drive motorhome built by the Clark fork lift company. This unique vehicle was purpose-built from a steel unitized body and featured a lot of innovation.
In the 1970s Winnebago thought the idea of an RV based on a helicopter would fly. We’ve got the story on the Winnebago Heli-Home, a true flying RV that was even FMCA compliant.
The Corvair-powered Ultra Van was truly one of the most groundbreaking RVs of all time which made sense as the Corvair, too, broke a lot of new ground as well as being a stand out classic nowadays. This aircraft-inspired RV is a unique collectible that still is uniquely advanced.
In the 1970s General Motors created a unique motorhome that, to this day, is still class-leading in a lot of ways with collectors still restoring and modifying these beautiful coaches in significant numbers.
Toyota’s concept RV-2 pointed to the company thinking about creating a unique RV and sports car blend in the early 1970s. Ultimately the car-RV appeared on the pages of Penthouse magazine but not before getting a lot of attention.
Chevrolet offered their Corvair as a van and made camper kits available for those vans. Today those are rare but cool collectible vehicles.
