Man that brings back some fine memories. Pulled one just like that with my brand new 1961 Ford Falcon station wagon ($2,600) for ten years. Had an old bumper jack with a 3/8 wire loop to change a tire.
That's awesome! I've never actually seen one of these before. I suppose that most of them didn't survive.
My wife's favorite part, and probably the reason she didn't kill me dead when I bought it is that she saw an old advertisement for them where it showed two kids sleeping in the two aluminum compartments! She decided that would be great fun for a little kid.
Thank you for mentioning the jack. The tires are new, with two spares underneath, but I'd honestly not thought about the need to jack it up to change one until you mentioned it. I've got one of those old bumper jacks somewhere in the garage.
I had three girls and a boy at the time and we did a lot of camping. I didn't think about the jack but the man I bought it from was a clever guy that thought that up. Put the wire loop under one of the leveling jacks and it works like a charm.
Yep, I can see how that would work, quick and easy. Thank you!
After 66 years, those levelers were mighty sticky in their tubes, as was the spring loaded ratcheting thing. When I got it home yesterday I got all of that lubed up, nice and smooth now. Then it started raining, so I had to push it into the garage. I'll get it out once the rain lets up, put it up in the yard, see if anything else needs a bit of TLC.
The only other thing I've got to do is lengthen the safety chains, not sure what kind of hitch the previous owner used, but they are far too short with my truck.
It actually has two sets of poles, the aluminum set that came with it, and a second, internal frame that a previous owner made out of PVC pipe, because he used to put it in shows, and some of those were on concrete, so it will stand tight even without putting a couple of stakes in the ground. Kind of handy to have, but I don't imagine needed where I'll be taking it.
My first car I bought when I was a young lad was a obviously used 1960 Ford Falcon station wagon. Three on the tree, and a straight six. Paid $175 dollars for it in 1979 or so. Was a complete piece of crap, but it ran. The wipers didn't work, the heater didn't work, but the engine was rock solid. Driving that thing in the middle of winter in spokane was not fun, but it got me where I needed to go. Survived Mt St Helens too. Got my money's worth out of it at least.
Coming home from upstate N Y I broke a push rod going up a mountain pulled over removed the rod and limped home. Back then you could do stuff like that. No computers and just a PSV for emissions. Why I said I have fine memories.
Mrs. Bailey certainly shares your sentiments! She was even pretty reluctant to join me in the Airstream when we had it. 🤠 99% of the time that was a solo endeavor.
Well I can't wait to see you AND this beast you got MW ......it is slightly younger than I am and my only traveling these days is to the Lodge and in fact last night was the #6 Stated and I was the second member to arrive......then I started getting sick and ended up driving back home in pain but after many hours I came back to life and there is no way I will miss the BBQ and I will be the Fellowcraft Treasurer that night too (my first time as a Treasurer) hope you and the Mrs have plenty of fun......wish I could do stuff like that but the Mrs and I do our vacations at home.....and every time I am out working on all the national park things I had to plant here over my 43 years on the property I always am reminded of you when I see those "Forget-Me-Nots" all over the place .......along with all the peppermint that I planted and decided it had to grow around the pond.......I had Brother Clayton visit and with any luck I will be driving that classic car I have had since I was 18 to Lodge #107.....as long as it doesn't rain......since my 1970 Cutlass Supreme is my oldest child and never sees the rain.....OK goodnight MW at 4:45am
We have two windows on this one. A week from Saturday, I'll be in the Quilcene for the Outdoor EA Degree, and of course, I'll be at the Cameron Extravaganza on September 20th.
10-day forecast shows 82 degrees for August 23rd, so there's some optimism to focus on.
Sorry to hear about your illness, glad to know that you're feeling better today! And agreed, I'm certainly looking forward to seeing you at our BBQ and Starlight Degree! It's going to be great!
Your home sounds quite wonderful, as does your 'oldest child!'
well, since I just moved 2500 miles, and am living in an RV until our house gets built, with a wife a cat, and a wolf hybrid, I am no proper judge of sanity
I remember, when I was about ten years old, my grandparents built a new home, and lived in a really small RV while it was under construction. That was great fun for us as kids, but I imagine pretty rough on them as adults.
As man was originally nomadic, I like to think that you have the best of both worlds, sans a time machine of course. A little bit of nature and a little bit of natural make for a comfortable material mix while attending to esoteric and fraternal pleasures.
Yes, indeed, it should be great fun! Melinda and I started mapping out Rallies last night. Astoria, Oregon; Naches, WA; Chehalis, WA, Lynden, WA. We can do plenty of that while not having to drive far at all!
Of course, I don't know that I will actually convince her to sleep in the thing, she's fairly excited about the Happy Hour possibilities, but may well retreat to the hotel afterwards.
“I tried to convince Melinda that she should sell her modern Jeep so that we could pull this fine vintage trailer with the Willy’s Jeep shown, but alas, I was met with some nonsense about wanting a roof in the rain.” Lest you know that the CJ featured in your picture has flat fenders. If it’s stock, it’s probably a CJ-3A or a 3B, which means the famous Hurricane 4 motor which, while providing plenty of torque for off-road purposes, does not have enough top-end power to propel the Jeep to highway speeds, and definitely not pulling a trailer. In fact, all the Jeep Universals (CJ’s) from 1959 have the Hurricane engine. Now, you could cheat and swap in a more powerful motor…
Coupling your previous RV and your current one, you might remember I have a close relative who has a 1959 Airstream Traveler (18’). It needs more work to return to roadworthiness, but it’s restored on the inside. Walk in, and it’s just like a scene off the Donna Reed show. Pretty cool!
Yes indeed, I do know (from past experience) that the old Willy's (it's a '46) wouldn't get up to speed on the Freeway. That's OK, back roads are more fun anyway. But, alas, still this morning Melinda is adamant about a roof. Stubborn she is, I think it would make a fine commuter car for her!
I don't think though that this particular trailer would actually have an impact at all on the Willy's performance. As I recall from the old advertisements I read yesterday, it's around 375 pounds.
MWPGM Bailey, your stories always give me a few laughs. About 5 years ago, my wife set up and folded down a new ALiner Camping Trailer. Then I found an ALiner used A-Frame "Scout Lite" on sale in South Carolina for $750.
We drove up from Florida, bought it, and pulled it back with our Toyota RAV4. The Trailer is only 1,200 pounds, and was only used for Shows. My wife was initially satisfied, but now with no potty or shower inside, the Trailer is a no-go! My parents had a 16 foot long Ford Motor Home they took to Masonic Camper weekends.
For me, a tent or wood leanto for my 400 miles backpacking the Appalachian Trail was adequate. I did buy a couple portable potties to carry inside the Trailer, but have heard displeasure about that. I also have a shower tent to use in a campground, but it's not preferred either. Ha!
ALiner's are really awesome! We've actually had our eyes out for one for quite awhile, but just never seemed to find the right one. It seems that their owners keep them for a good long time, so they must love them.
We did find a homemade ALiner style trailer some time ago. Almost pulled the trigger one it, but he didn't really have a good unfolding system worked out (beyond brute strength) so took a pass.
I do have to say that at 375 pounds, this is the easiest trailer I've ever had to back up in my life. When I brought it home yesterday I just parked my truck in the street, where I always park, unhooked the thing, and pushed it backwards by hand up the driveway and into the garage! Quite a change from the 28 foot Airstream.
Yeah, you ain't pushing the Airstream by hand. Although I believe you can scoot around shorter ones with larger lawn tractors if you have the proper adapter on the back.
Yesterday afternoon I pushed it from the garage and around the house into the front yard to figure out how to set it up. Kind of wild, it's narrow enough to go right down the sidewalk.
Neighbor guy came over, said he looked out the window, saw someone dragging a trailer down the sidewalk so had to come check it out.
I think, in the very early days, they used to drag them around the Airstream factory with a bicycle as a PR thing. Airstreams have gotten very significantly heavier through the decades.
MW Brother! I look forward to meeting you on the open road one of these days, hopefully with a land vessel of my own! That thing reminds me of the one my grandparents used to take me camping in when my parents needed a break, I had almost forgotten about it. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Yes indeed Brother! I'm not sure I can call this one a Land Yacht, but maybe a Land Dinghy.
Cool that you have camped in something similar, I've never seen one like it before. Plenty of the much larger Tent Trailers, but nothing this small.
Now I just have to decide where to take it first, we have three State Parks, two Tacoma Power parks, one Lewis County PUD park, and a Lions Club park all within a really short drive from my house. Plus a bunch of private parks, but those are probably less fun.
Plus, I get to 'Stick It To The Man!' It's so old, it's exempt from yearly registration and all the taxes and fees that go along with that, so no ongoing cash to the government. And, it ain't depreciating anymore, so I've got to assume that I can get out of it what I put into it, no matter what the Fed does to cause more inflation.
Man that brings back some fine memories. Pulled one just like that with my brand new 1961 Ford Falcon station wagon ($2,600) for ten years. Had an old bumper jack with a 3/8 wire loop to change a tire.
That's awesome! I've never actually seen one of these before. I suppose that most of them didn't survive.
My wife's favorite part, and probably the reason she didn't kill me dead when I bought it is that she saw an old advertisement for them where it showed two kids sleeping in the two aluminum compartments! She decided that would be great fun for a little kid.
Thank you for mentioning the jack. The tires are new, with two spares underneath, but I'd honestly not thought about the need to jack it up to change one until you mentioned it. I've got one of those old bumper jacks somewhere in the garage.
I had three girls and a boy at the time and we did a lot of camping. I didn't think about the jack but the man I bought it from was a clever guy that thought that up. Put the wire loop under one of the leveling jacks and it works like a charm.
Hopefully I will talk with you Sunday.
I look forward to seeing you Sunday evening!
Yep, I can see how that would work, quick and easy. Thank you!
After 66 years, those levelers were mighty sticky in their tubes, as was the spring loaded ratcheting thing. When I got it home yesterday I got all of that lubed up, nice and smooth now. Then it started raining, so I had to push it into the garage. I'll get it out once the rain lets up, put it up in the yard, see if anything else needs a bit of TLC.
The only other thing I've got to do is lengthen the safety chains, not sure what kind of hitch the previous owner used, but they are far too short with my truck.
It actually has two sets of poles, the aluminum set that came with it, and a second, internal frame that a previous owner made out of PVC pipe, because he used to put it in shows, and some of those were on concrete, so it will stand tight even without putting a couple of stakes in the ground. Kind of handy to have, but I don't imagine needed where I'll be taking it.
My first car I bought when I was a young lad was a obviously used 1960 Ford Falcon station wagon. Three on the tree, and a straight six. Paid $175 dollars for it in 1979 or so. Was a complete piece of crap, but it ran. The wipers didn't work, the heater didn't work, but the engine was rock solid. Driving that thing in the middle of winter in spokane was not fun, but it got me where I needed to go. Survived Mt St Helens too. Got my money's worth out of it at least.
I remember the 'three on the tree.' I never had one, but drove a Ford pickup with that system a number of times.
Oh yeah!!!
Coming home from upstate N Y I broke a push rod going up a mountain pulled over removed the rod and limped home. Back then you could do stuff like that. No computers and just a PSV for emissions. Why I said I have fine memories.
Well brother, as the only sleeping in the woods I do is in a cabin, I certainly wish you luck!
Mrs. Bailey certainly shares your sentiments! She was even pretty reluctant to join me in the Airstream when we had it. 🤠 99% of the time that was a solo endeavor.
Well I can't wait to see you AND this beast you got MW ......it is slightly younger than I am and my only traveling these days is to the Lodge and in fact last night was the #6 Stated and I was the second member to arrive......then I started getting sick and ended up driving back home in pain but after many hours I came back to life and there is no way I will miss the BBQ and I will be the Fellowcraft Treasurer that night too (my first time as a Treasurer) hope you and the Mrs have plenty of fun......wish I could do stuff like that but the Mrs and I do our vacations at home.....and every time I am out working on all the national park things I had to plant here over my 43 years on the property I always am reminded of you when I see those "Forget-Me-Nots" all over the place .......along with all the peppermint that I planted and decided it had to grow around the pond.......I had Brother Clayton visit and with any luck I will be driving that classic car I have had since I was 18 to Lodge #107.....as long as it doesn't rain......since my 1970 Cutlass Supreme is my oldest child and never sees the rain.....OK goodnight MW at 4:45am
We have two windows on this one. A week from Saturday, I'll be in the Quilcene for the Outdoor EA Degree, and of course, I'll be at the Cameron Extravaganza on September 20th.
10-day forecast shows 82 degrees for August 23rd, so there's some optimism to focus on.
Sorry to hear about your illness, glad to know that you're feeling better today! And agreed, I'm certainly looking forward to seeing you at our BBQ and Starlight Degree! It's going to be great!
Your home sounds quite wonderful, as does your 'oldest child!'
well, since I just moved 2500 miles, and am living in an RV until our house gets built, with a wife a cat, and a wolf hybrid, I am no proper judge of sanity
I remember, when I was about ten years old, my grandparents built a new home, and lived in a really small RV while it was under construction. That was great fun for us as kids, but I imagine pretty rough on them as adults.
As man was originally nomadic, I like to think that you have the best of both worlds, sans a time machine of course. A little bit of nature and a little bit of natural make for a comfortable material mix while attending to esoteric and fraternal pleasures.
Yes, indeed, it should be great fun! Melinda and I started mapping out Rallies last night. Astoria, Oregon; Naches, WA; Chehalis, WA, Lynden, WA. We can do plenty of that while not having to drive far at all!
Of course, I don't know that I will actually convince her to sleep in the thing, she's fairly excited about the Happy Hour possibilities, but may well retreat to the hotel afterwards.
Aha!
Let’s take two directions on this one.
“I tried to convince Melinda that she should sell her modern Jeep so that we could pull this fine vintage trailer with the Willy’s Jeep shown, but alas, I was met with some nonsense about wanting a roof in the rain.” Lest you know that the CJ featured in your picture has flat fenders. If it’s stock, it’s probably a CJ-3A or a 3B, which means the famous Hurricane 4 motor which, while providing plenty of torque for off-road purposes, does not have enough top-end power to propel the Jeep to highway speeds, and definitely not pulling a trailer. In fact, all the Jeep Universals (CJ’s) from 1959 have the Hurricane engine. Now, you could cheat and swap in a more powerful motor…
Coupling your previous RV and your current one, you might remember I have a close relative who has a 1959 Airstream Traveler (18’). It needs more work to return to roadworthiness, but it’s restored on the inside. Walk in, and it’s just like a scene off the Donna Reed show. Pretty cool!
Yes indeed, I do know (from past experience) that the old Willy's (it's a '46) wouldn't get up to speed on the Freeway. That's OK, back roads are more fun anyway. But, alas, still this morning Melinda is adamant about a roof. Stubborn she is, I think it would make a fine commuter car for her!
I don't think though that this particular trailer would actually have an impact at all on the Willy's performance. As I recall from the old advertisements I read yesterday, it's around 375 pounds.
Indeed, I remember Nick's Airstream well!
MWPGM Bailey, your stories always give me a few laughs. About 5 years ago, my wife set up and folded down a new ALiner Camping Trailer. Then I found an ALiner used A-Frame "Scout Lite" on sale in South Carolina for $750.
We drove up from Florida, bought it, and pulled it back with our Toyota RAV4. The Trailer is only 1,200 pounds, and was only used for Shows. My wife was initially satisfied, but now with no potty or shower inside, the Trailer is a no-go! My parents had a 16 foot long Ford Motor Home they took to Masonic Camper weekends.
For me, a tent or wood leanto for my 400 miles backpacking the Appalachian Trail was adequate. I did buy a couple portable potties to carry inside the Trailer, but have heard displeasure about that. I also have a shower tent to use in a campground, but it's not preferred either. Ha!
ALiner's are really awesome! We've actually had our eyes out for one for quite awhile, but just never seemed to find the right one. It seems that their owners keep them for a good long time, so they must love them.
We did find a homemade ALiner style trailer some time ago. Almost pulled the trigger one it, but he didn't really have a good unfolding system worked out (beyond brute strength) so took a pass.
I do have to say that at 375 pounds, this is the easiest trailer I've ever had to back up in my life. When I brought it home yesterday I just parked my truck in the street, where I always park, unhooked the thing, and pushed it backwards by hand up the driveway and into the garage! Quite a change from the 28 foot Airstream.
Yeah, you ain't pushing the Airstream by hand. Although I believe you can scoot around shorter ones with larger lawn tractors if you have the proper adapter on the back.
Yesterday afternoon I pushed it from the garage and around the house into the front yard to figure out how to set it up. Kind of wild, it's narrow enough to go right down the sidewalk.
Neighbor guy came over, said he looked out the window, saw someone dragging a trailer down the sidewalk so had to come check it out.
I think, in the very early days, they used to drag them around the Airstream factory with a bicycle as a PR thing. Airstreams have gotten very significantly heavier through the decades.
MW Brother! I look forward to meeting you on the open road one of these days, hopefully with a land vessel of my own! That thing reminds me of the one my grandparents used to take me camping in when my parents needed a break, I had almost forgotten about it. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Yes indeed Brother! I'm not sure I can call this one a Land Yacht, but maybe a Land Dinghy.
Cool that you have camped in something similar, I've never seen one like it before. Plenty of the much larger Tent Trailers, but nothing this small.
Now I just have to decide where to take it first, we have three State Parks, two Tacoma Power parks, one Lewis County PUD park, and a Lions Club park all within a really short drive from my house. Plus a bunch of private parks, but those are probably less fun.
Seems like a reasonably AWESOME choice to me! This will be so cool, no matter the journeys! 🫡
Great find! Hope we get some tales from the road... 😌
Thanks! I agree!
Plus, I get to 'Stick It To The Man!' It's so old, it's exempt from yearly registration and all the taxes and fees that go along with that, so no ongoing cash to the government. And, it ain't depreciating anymore, so I've got to assume that I can get out of it what I put into it, no matter what the Fed does to cause more inflation.