The Tin Can Tourists is an all make and model vintage trailer and motor coach club. Its goal is to promote and preserve vintage trailers and motor coaches through Gatherings and information exchange.
Tin Can Tales 2014-15 Winter Newsletter
Forrest T Bone Tin Can Tales
Volume XIII, Number 2, Winter 2014-15 Edition
The Tin Can Tourists is an all make and model vintage trailer and motor coach club. Its goal is to promote and preserve vintage trailers and motor coaches through Gatherings and information exchange. Official Colors: Black and Tan Official Theme Song: "The More We Get Together" Stated Objective: To Unite Fraternally All Auto Campers Guiding Principles: Clean camps, friendliness among campers, decent behavior and to secure plenty of clean, wholesome entertainment for those in the camps [email protected] or visit www.tincantourists.com Address: 4 High Street Bradenton, Florida 34208 Summer April to October: PO Box 489, Gregory, Michigan 48137
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Tin Can Tourists: Centennial Celebration 1919 to 2019 Sertoma Youth Ranch - Brooksville Florida - February 18th through 24, 2019 A weeklong celebration packed with historic events. Put the date on your calendar.
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From our Royal Chief The Homecoming Gathering at Ester State Park was fantastic. Twenty vintage rigs congregated on the historic settlement grounds to participate in Halloween festivities and the Open House. There are some great pictures at https://www.flickr.com/photos/tbone2/sets
Don’t miss Mama Cass, Chiquita Banana, and Phyllis Diller.
Many thanks to Mike Greene for his help obtaining transport of the Garton Trailer from New York to Camp Dearborn.
With the help of Lee Morris, Camp Manager, we will get a permanent display site for this historic trailer.
Jeri and I along with a few TCT members check out Silver Springs State Park here in Florida for a possible event.
The staff is very excited about including TCT in a future event at the park. Silver Springs is just east of Ocala and has a number of attractions that members would find interesting.
2014 has been an exciting year for TCT. The number of camping opportunities has expanded as we have experienced a rise in the number of state representatives and individual gathering hosts. Terry has a wealth of information to assist in establishing an event. Almost every state could use an individual representative that would host an event for state members and those that would not have to travel great distances to attend. Also, California is a large state that has a large number of TCT members. Penny Cotter hosts one event in Petaluma, but I know there are other great areas to explore and in need of events. It looks like this year will be the breakout year for attendance at the Winter Convention. We have heard that there is a number of people coming down from the East and Midwest to attend.
Safe Travels and Love to all
Forrest, Jeri, Terry and Michelle Bone
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Profile of new TCT member John Agnew By Doug Keister
When I was researching my first vintage trailer book READY TO ROLL in 2001, one name kept coming up. “You have to talk to Johnny Agnew in Los Angeles.” People would say. “He’s got a great collection of trailers and vintage accessories, plus he knows EVERYONE.”
A few months later, I drove into an old trailer park in Pasadena that was home to John’s collection and served as headquarters for Funky Junk Farms. Funky Junk Farms is a collaboration between Steve Butcher, who has a restoration shop an hour away in Fillmore, California and graphic artist Edward Lum.
After being welcomed by John, I spent the rest of the day photographing all I could. And there was a lot to photograph. Additionally, John was a goldmine of knowledge about trailers (he showed and demonstrated the first “slimp wheel” I had ever seen).
Needless to say, Funky Junk Farms and a number of the trailers appeared in READY TO ROLL and have since appeared in my books SILVER PALACES and MOBILE MANSIONS.
It is safe to say that John Agnew is one of a handful of people who are responsible for beginning stages in what is now known as the vintage trailer phenomenon. He was ahead of his time in recognizing the importance of rolling real estate as a part of American history. At any given time he in immersed in a number of restoration and collection projects (he rents out props as well as trailers) in addition to his full time job working as as a Teamster for Hollywood production companies.
His work on various movies and his effervescent personality has resulted in accumulating a long list of entertainment industry friends. Visit the Funky Junk Farms website funkyjunkfarms.com and you’ll see photos of him with Halle Berry, Tom Hanks, Ruby Dee, James Colburn and others. John Agnew is a welcome addition to the Tin Can Tourist’s stable of vintage trailer and RV enthusiasts. NOTE: A few months after meeting John in 2001, he moved Funky Junk Farms a few miles away to Altadena where it is today.
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TCT’s Return to Cedar Key By Charon Alexander
A small, lovely and iconically Old Florida town once again hosted the Tin Can Tourists for our Return to Cedar Key, a weekend of fellowship, fun and family style dining December 4th through 7th, 2014. 30 sites at Sunset Isle RV Park were occupied by Canners and the Saturday Open House kept the park busy for almost the entire day as people took photos, jotted notes and shared snacks and music in addition to their love of classic trailers and motor coaches. If this event was any indication of the enthusiasm level of the club, Winter Convention in Brooksville, FL is definitely going to be more amazing than ever.
This was one of the first winter-months gatherings of Tin Can Tourists in Florida as snowbirds begin to congregate for the winter months. Christmas was very definitely in the air, on plates and in glasses during the initial gathering after arrival, and lots of cheery colors, draped over propane tanks and clipped along awning edges, twinkled well into the evening hours. The glow of Friday Night Lights happened every night at Cedar Key this December, and the full moon overhead made visiting from site to site after dark a total joy. A breakfast and a sumptuous BBQ dinner were provided by the Sunset Isle Club House and Robinson’s Seafood Market, 6 miles away on the main road, served a low country boil preceded by an excellent smoked mullet dip and followed by a decadent array of desserts.
The weather for TCT’s Return to Cedar Key could not have been more perfect, and a warm and lovely breeze accompanied Forrest and Jeri as they initiated new the new membership and handed them their pins. Even when the temperatures dipped low on Saturday evening, spirits were still high. Many gatherings of friends, old and new, were happening beneath awnings, by the fire in the Club House and next door at the Low-Key Hideaway’s famed Tiki Bar. Live music from a nearly complete Bluegrass ensemble made the evenings quite festive as they took requests and played favored standards well into the night.
Sunday morning dawned much cooler and foggy, but it takes more than that to dampen the spirits of the Tin Can Tourists. As travel trailers and motorhomes were packed and tow vehicles secured, all were wishing their neighbors safe travel until such time as we all see one another again down the road.
More pictures on Flicker: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tbone2/sets
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Vintage Trailers featured in the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/06/garden/a-passion-for-vintage-trailers.html
By Kelle Arvay
On November 6th, 2014 I did an interview for the New York Times and was asked to share what that experience was like with the Tin Can Tourist members. First let me just say that the folks that I worked with at the New York Times were very down to earth and that made the interview and photo shoot session a very pleasant experience.
It all started with a e-mail from Steve Kurutz, who is a writer for the Home & Garden section of the New York Times. Steve expressed his interest in interviewing me for an article he was working on that featured people that renovated and restored vintage trailers. I told him I would be available for his interview and we set up a time to speak on the phone the next day. After that everything happened pretty quickly, including Steve coming out from New York City a couple days later to my home in Michigan. He wanted to come out and meet me and also spend some time inside my trailers to get a feel for the space. When he arrived we spent a few hours sitting at the dinette table in the trailers talking about my interest in them and the trailers themselves. Steve recorded the Q & A session so he could go back over it all later. It was pretty clear that Steve was intrigued by how utilitarian the interiors were and overall I believe he thought they were pretty cool! After several hours, I shook his hand and he headed back to New York City with the info he needed for the article.
The next step was to see if they could get a time set up for a photographer to come out and do a photo shoot. They were able to schedule New York Times photographer Tony Cenicola to come out to do the shoot. Tony arrived from New York at my home on a Saturday afternoon and I had the 63 Yellowstone set up in our front yard.
If you have never participated in a photo shoot in 38 degree weather while wearing semi- summer type clothing, well let me just tell you I more or less froze! But I smiled through chattering teeth while he snapped photos. Tony and I both came inside the house often to warm up before heading back outside to do more photos. It’s amazing the number of photos that are taken compared to how many actually make it in the paper or online. In the case of this article, three photos made it in actual newspaper
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and four made it onto the online slide show. Among the photos that didn’t make it were shots of my family sitting at the dinette, one of my Pug dogs sitting on the bed and photos of my 1955 Bellwood trailer. I think that the photos they chose of the 63 Yellowstone were perfect though.
After about six hours we said goodbye to Tony and off he went with all of his equipment and photos back to New York to go through them and submit them for the article.
November, 6th arrives and I pick up a New York Times and there on the cover of the Home section (above the fold even!) is my 1963 Yellowstone. I read the article on the home page and then flipped through the paper to read the rest of it. I must say they did a great job! Besides reading about the other trailers in the article, I was tickled to see a mention of my website in there was well. My website…MENTIONED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES!! I had to let that sink in for a few minutes.
Overall it was a great experience and I’m happy to have had the opportunity to talk to people about my love for these little trailers. In a world full of depressing headlines it’s such a nice thing to see a happy article and what could be happier than vintage trailers right? I look forward to continuing to work on my trailers, decorate them and enjoy spending time with friends and family at rallies and camping trips.
Happy trails and I hope to see you at a rally soon!
Kelle Arvay http://www.LittleVintageTrailer.com
Tony Cenicola, N Y Times Photographer
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Stretching a 1953 Spartan (Note: all dimensions are box dimensions, no tongue included)
This article is about stretching the length of a 1953 Spartan Manor by about 4 feet, but first a little background on what got us into vintage camping and the initial restoration of our Spartan.
In 1999, we bought a 1960-ish vintage 12’ Arrow as an “accessory” for one of our old station wagons. I have been collecting old cars for almost 40 years now, owning over 125 different cars through that time, but had never owned a camper or been camping since my family owned a lake cottage while I was growing up. We bought the Arrow just to be an accessory, to look good behind various cars, with no real intention of going camping with it. But after we restored it, just for fun we took it camping and had a blast, so we continued camping in it, including taking it to the TCT spring event in Michigan.
After a few years, we got tired of being cramped on the slightly longer trips, especially rainy ones, and we hated the fact that we could only take our small German shepherd with us, that none of our Great Danes could fit in the small camper, so we started looking for something larger. The next summer we were camping in Saugatuck, Michigan and drove past a yard sale, and saw a large canned ham / Spartanette-looking trailer sitting behind a dog run. We stopped and successfully bought it, a 20 foot 1948 McComb, made nearby in SW Michigan.
We got it home on a flatbed, it had been gutted and had been used as a storage shed, and we took the lack of an interior as free reign to start designing our own interior. One goal was to have a king-sized bed so all humans and dogs could sleep on it. While doodling on paper, we soon realized that a 20’ box was not going to be large enough to fit everything, so we started looking for something larger. I had met Dan Piper of Vintage Campers at a TCT
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event, so in 2007 I went up to his place in Peru and found a 1953 Spartan Manor Tandem with a 24’ box and nearly complete interior, but needing restoration. The Spartan came home and the McComb went on eBay.
The first restoration: We carefully but completely removed the interior of the Spartan, gutting it to the studs and skin. Our mechanic rebuilt the axles and tongue for safe towing while we cleaned and assessed what we had. I realized that if we re-arranged the interior closets a bit (the bathroom was already missing), we could fit a king sized bed in the back bedroom. The kitchen we made a bit smaller and galley style instead of “L” shaped, putting in a small fridge and cooktop instead of full sized ones to save room.
While loving the wood walls inside, that is what attracted me to Spartans and other similar vintage trailers like Vagabond in the first place, I also wanted more light inside, so Dan provided some additional windows from a “parts trailer”. We added 6 windows, one each front and rear below the original windows, two on the driver’s side in the bedroom (replacing the small window that had been in the bathroom), and two between the doors where the original fridge and furnace had been. Below that set of windows we built a window seat with a toilet hidden under it. So, while we had no proper bathroom, we did still have a toilet for emergencies.
All new wiring, running lights, taillights (from a ’67 Cougar turned vertical), plumbing, tanks, etc., and the trailer was ready to be put back together. Only about 20% of the interior wood needed to be replaced, the rest was in good enough shape to be reinstalled. We added a rooftop A/C unit, and did the rest of the interior “vintage” with original fabric from the 50’s for the curtains and reproduction Formica for the countertop and checkerboard vinyl flooring installed on a diagonal to complete the “original” look.
With the interior done in time for our 2008 Key West trip, we were on the road even before the exterior was fully done. Due to the adding of windows and other exterior panel work, we decided to paint the exterior instead of polishing it as it should have been. So later in 2008 we painted it to match both our 1956 wagon and Arrow trailer, which had already been
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painted and upholstered to match the wagon. We also painted our roll-back car hauler to match and put running lights on the car hauler to match the Spartan trailer.
A couple of TCT events, many short jaunts around the Midwest, one run to Burning Man, and 6 trips to Key West filled the next few years. We could now take two Great Danes with us to Key West, but that meant we had to leave the other 2 at home in a kennel. We managed, rotating which dogs were lucky and which weren’t. Then disaster struck, but lightly. When we got home from our 2014 Key West trip, our mechanic informed us that we were lucky to have gotten home in one piece since the frame had cracked in more than one place. But we did get home, fortunately. So, was it time to buy a new trailer? A larger one that would fit all the dogs?
We started to look at both new trailers and vintage ones, not finding anything we liked as much as our Spartan, at least anything bigger. We almost decided to just buy a new 34 foot trailer, complete with slide-outs. We even looked at a huge 40 foot 5th wheel, but I couldn’t give up the “cool factor” of traveling in an old trailer, and a 5th wheel would mean no antique cars on our trips. Plus I just hate those plastic walls! I then had a crazy idea, how about buying one of the 40-45 foot Spartan park models I had seen, and cutting and shrinking it to something in the 30-34 foot range? Our mechanic threw out an equally crazy idea, how about cutting and stretching our existing Spartan? Loving the trailer we had restored and traveled in, we chose the latter.
So, he separated the body from the floor/frame, and cut the frame 22” back from the front wall. He fabricated a 4’ longer frame (from new 6” C channel steel sections and 5 1/2” by 2” box tubing) with new, 1 foot tongue (longer
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so we could mount a spare tire), overlapping the existing frame by 52” for structural rigidity. His high school geometry was being tested to the max, with all the odd angled cuts to make the new frame and new tongue meet the old ones.
Once the frame was done, re- mounting the floor and body took a lot of ripping and planning of wood to get the right thicknesses since modern wood is different than older wood. He used treated lumber for the stringers since they would be sitting on the metal frame, but not treated for the plywood flooring due to the weight. He show me the difference between 1953 and 2014 plywood, the older plywood was made of more, thinner, plys, for a more solid piece overall.
After the frame and floor were done, it was time to move the front “cap” forward to its new location. Warning, the front cap is top heavy since it leans forward and is full of glass! It took 5 guys to move it and secure it in its new position. The mechanic then spent a long time making sure the front cap was “square” to the rest of the body, then filled in the gap with new studs. New skin was riveted on, taking hundreds if not thousands of new rivets. He also added some cross bracing within the stud walls, and additional bolts attaching the floor to the frame make the “room addition” significantly sturdier than the original trailer. He was very happy when the trailer was taken off the jack stands, sitting on its own, and the door still opened and closed properly, testament to his attentiveness to detail when squaring everything up before bolting everything together.
We considered adding another window or two, but this process had become so complicated we decided not to. Once the walls were done, the lower skirts were fabricated by rolling flat sheet stock over PVC pipe to get the right curvature. Then he fabricated the rub rails from flat sheet stock, and other horizontal trim from ¾” box tubing cut down to match the rest as closely as possible. It is not an exact match, but if you
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are not looking for it, you don’t notice it. All we have left to do the exterior is paint the new panels to match the existing ones.
Inside: Opting not to add more windows made the inside easy, just a couple new sheets of birch plywood and wood trim, stained to match. When we did the first restoration, we opted for a small fridge since we usually eat out when traveling, but now we wanted to go with a larger (though still not full sized) unit, so the kitchen counter and lower cabinets got hacked up again to fit the new unit. We found black and white checkerboard vinyl for the floor, and a new IKEA sectional filled the added space nicely.
Time to hit the road. We decided to do a test trip with all 4 dogs before going to Key West again, so we went to upper Michigan, near Traverse City, to road test the trailer and dogs. There is not a significant weight gain on the hitch, and it tows just as easily as it did before the stretch, with the exception of course of navigating gas stops and such. Everything went great and we are looking forward to years more of vintage camping and more trips per year since I am retired now.
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We Get Letters
Facebook posting by Brian McCool I should take a moment to thank our TCT friends Forrest and Jeri, Terry and Michele Bone not only for providing the backbone of this hobby, the TCT organization, the friends and fun it's given Kim and I, but the platform of the TCT web page. I advertised our Spartan only there, and had many inquiries, one of which lead to the sale of our much loved Spartan Manor. The sale will allow us to move forward with our other projects, we're looking ahead to many more adventures with the TCT and our new Manor! Thanks guys, you're the greatest!
An email after the Estero Homecoming Gathering Hello Tin Can Tourists!
We enjoyed meeting all of you and had a blast. We are looking forward in reuniting February 2015 (Winter Convention)...... wish we could meet up sooner, but not sure it will work out.
Thank you for the fun and laughs!
Lauren & Kent Carlyle
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Rear View Mirror We have done a number of follow-up articles on the Futurliner. Don Mayton, project coordinator, is a charter member of TCT and numerous members assisted in the renovation. Futurliner No. 10 to go on National Historic Vehicle Register, finds permanent home Daniel Strohl - Nov 19th, 2014
Photo by Marc Bochy.
General Motors didn’t build its Futurliners to sell to the general public. It didn’t build them to race. It didn’t build them for the military. It didn’t build them as design studies or as concepts designed to embody the future of transportation. General Motors didn’t build the Futurliners for any entity other than General Motors. But it did build them for the public. It built them to be seen and to make a scene. It built them to inspire awe and wonder. So it’s fitting that one of the remaining Futurliners will soon enter a permanent and public record, the National Historic Vehicle Register.
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One of 12 behemoths that GM built starting in 1939 for its Parade of Progress traveling show, Futurliner No. 10 has perhaps remained in public view the longest of all the Futurliners. Its initial tour of duty – in a slightly different configuration that included more glass in the canopy and that likely used a GM 4-71 two-cycle diesel engine for power (though one of the original-configuration Futurliners used a 451-cu.in. gasoline engine) – only lasted one year, 1940, but more than a dozen years later, when GM decided to again canvass the country with the Parade of Progress, No. 10 and the other 11 remained ready to once again hit the road.
Not without some modifications first, though. The overall dimensions of the Futurliners remained the same – 33 feet long, 8 feet wide, more than 11 feet tall, and more than 12 tons heavy – but GM decided to swap out the diesels and their attendant manual transmissions in favor of military-grade 302-cu.in. GMC straight-six gasoline engines backed by Hydra-Matic automatic transmissions. The whitewall duallies front and rear remained, as did the driver’s up-high and central steering position, but based on feedback from the previous Futurliner pilots, GM scrapped the bubble canopies and replaced them with panoramic windshields, more sheet metal to shield the drivers from the sun, and air conditioning.
Futurliner No. 10 with its exhibits. Photos courtesy Futurliner.com.
According to Bruce Berghoff and George Ferris’s book, General Motors Parade of Progress & A Futurliner Returns, Futurliner No. 10 hauled around a couple of displays for the Parade of Progress: Three Dimensional Sound, which demonstrated “how binaural sound helped build better cars;” and Opportunity for Youth, which included winning model cars from the Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild and explained how budding car doodlers could enter the contest. Pretty much every weekend from April 1953 through July 1956, the dozen Futurliners and almost as many support trucks crisscrossed the continent, headed north in the summer and south in the winter. In all, they hit up 35 states and three Canadian provinces in nearly 150 stops.
The end of the Parade came not when the Futurliners quit, but when GM did. As Berghoff and Ferris wrote, a number of factors combined brought it to an end: rising costs, diminishing returns, and other opportunities for more targeted marketing, and the rise of network television. GM executives decided to donate two to the Michigan State Police, then apparently sold the rest to Dick Knapp, whose Anchor Motor Freight company transported GM’s show displays across the country.
Knapp apparently had no interest in the Futurliners other than to sell them off at a profit; among the buyers was musician Vic Hyde, who bought No. 10 and thought he’d convert it into a tour bus. He quickly changed his mind – he couldn’t insure the Futurliner for the road – so he sold it to Goebel Brewing of Detroit. Goebel then repainted No. 10, installed a sound stage on one side of it and a beer dispenser on the right, and toured Michigan and surrounding states with it from 1957 through 1960. It then went to Detroit-based developer Pulte Construction Company, which intended to use it to promote a Florida subdivision, but No. 10 threw a rod on its way south, prompting Pulte to sell it to Dreisbach and Sons Cadillac in Detroit.
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Futurliner No. 10 in its Dreibach and Sons livery. Photo courtesy Futurliner.com.
Dreisbach, which already had a couple other Futurliners, repainted No. 10 white with the company and Cadillac logos on it and used it to promote the dealership on Grand River Avenue in Detroit for a number of years. Then sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s, a restaurant developer bought the Dreisbach Futurliners, added a couple more to the collection, and proposed cutting off the front ends to turn them all into a themed restaurant in Chicago. Instead, concept car collector Joe Bortz bought the five from the developer and kept them in a field outside Chicago until he realized he wouldn’t be able to restore all four of the Futurliners, he said. So in 1993 he donated No. 10 to the National Automotive and Truck Museum of the United States in Auburn, Indiana, and sold the other four.
Futurliner No. 10 then hung around outside of the museum until 1998, when Don and Carol Mayton of Zeeland, Michigan, decided to take on the vehicle’s restoration for NATMUS. The museum would retain the title to the Futurliner and help fund its restoration, while Mayton would gather a team of dozens to volunteer for the effort, assisting Mayton with transportation, research, parts acquisition, and general labor. Throughout the project, Mayton’s team turned up original documents related to the Futurliners and started an outreach program for the hundreds of people who drove and worked alongside the Futurliners during the Parade of Progress.
Eight years after they began the restoration, Mayton and the team called it done. Even before they finished it, though, they began to show it, starting with the 2003 Eyes on Design show in Detroit, and they have kept it on the road ever since, taking it as far west as the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in 2008, as far south as the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance in 2006, and to dozens of shows and events in between. One of the most memorable was the Ames
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Performance Pontiac Nationals in 2011, when it took to the drag strip at Summit Motorsports Park and recorded a blistering 45-second quarter-mile time.
Futurliner No. 10 on display at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo. Photo courtesy Futurliner.com.
Now, according to Mayton, Futurliner No. 10 has been selected for induction into the National Historic Vehicle Register, established earlier this year to document important vehicles in American history. To go on the register, a vehicle must meet one of four criteria: It must be associated with an important event in automotive or American history; it must be associated with a significant person in automotive or American history; it must be distinctive based on design, engineering, craftsmanship, or aesthetic value; or it must be the first produced, last produced, or be among the most well-preserved or authentically restored surviving examples. Selection to the register involves a complete documentation of the vehicle, including a fully referenced narrative of the vehicle’s provenance and full photography, which will then be placed in the Library of Congress. No restrictions are placed on subsequent use or sale of the vehicle.
Previous vehicles placed on the Register include the Tucker “Tin Goose” prototype, the last remaining World War I Cadillac, the first Meyers Manx dune buggy, and one of the six Shelby Cobra Daytonas.
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NATMUS. The museum had previously been unable to bring the Futurliner inside because it didn’t have large enough doors, Mayton said, leading his group to seek other winter lodgings for the Futurliner. In the past, it has stayed in the AACA Museum, the Sloan Museum, and the Gilmore Museum, among others, while it awaited show season.
The Washington Auto Show will take place January 23 through February 1. For more information on it, visit WashingtonAutoShow.com. For more information on the National Historic Vehicle Register, visit HistoricVehicle.org. And for more information and photos of Futurliner No. 10′s restoration, visit Futurliner.com.
- See more at: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2014/11/19/futurliner-no-10-to-go-on-national-historic-vehicle- register-finds-permanent-home/?refer=news#sthash.6fqSIupO.dpuf
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A complete listing of both Official TCT Events and other events that may be of interest are at www.tincantourists.com
2015 Events The link will take you to a complete listing of Official TCT Events + others submitted to us for listing http://www.tincantourists.com/rallyregistration1.php#.Ud1r2fkm2DQ BEND CLASSIC Vintage Trailer Rally August 7-9, 2015
J Bar J Ranch, 62895 Hamby Rd, Bend, OR
The Bend Classic Vintage Trailer Rally will be held at the J Bar J Ranch just East of Bend, OR. Camping will be on a grassy field with the Cascade Front in full view. There is some water and 110 electric but this is a ranch and not a trailer park.
This is the same weekend as the HUGE car show in Bend. Bend is packed with places to go and things to do.
Proceeds will benefit the programs of the Ranch. It is a Tin Can Tourist rally, please come and enjoy.
Attendees will get a permanent event nametag, window placard and an "event" open/closed sign.
Contact Dal Smilie ([email protected] with questions.
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Tin Can Tourist Desert Diamond Rally at Elephant Butte, NM September 11-13, 2015
Elephant Butte, in the lower Rio Grande Valley is home to sandy beaches along its 40 mile long reservoir with opportunities for boating, (they have rentals) fishing, sailing, scuba diving, and kayaking. We will be camping at the sparkling new resort: www.elephantbuttelakervresort.com, with level sites and full hook-ups; clean bathhouse, WI-Fi, dog run, BBQ grills, and a huge club house with indoor pool. Walk across the street, to the Elephant Butte Inn, for restaurant, bar, spa and salon services. Just minutes from the resort you'll find the state park entrance ($5.00 per day per car) with launch sites, hiking, drive your 4x4 on the beach, marinas and warm water for swimming.
During our stay the community's largest celebration will be taking place which includes: a parade, live music, arts, crafts, food vendor, car show and more all within walking distance. If you need something else to do, 6 miles away is the town of Truth or Consequences: torcchamber.com with shopping, hot mineral baths, museums, Veteran’s Memorial Park, and around every alley it seems is a vintage trailer. This is a vintage trailer mecca, with many units still being used in local parks.
Stay the week and explore one of the top 10 NM golf courses Turtleback Mountain Resort, El Camino Real International Heritage Center, Ghost towns, bird watching, the world capital of green chili- Hatch, or tour the International Space Port. Come met new campers and join up with old friends, we are going to have a blast. Rally RV site is $50.00 for 2 nights, contact Liz Foster at 575.744.5996 to reserve your spot, and rally fee is $20.00 for 2 people. Contact me for the rally form, mail it in with your rally fee to: Karen Campbell, (SW TCT Rep) 8111 Morrow Rd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110.
Cutoff date is September 1, and spots are limited. This is an official TCT rally. Contact me at [email protected] for any questions, or call my cell:
505-620-5276. See you at the Desert Diamond Rally!
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Tin Can Tourists Northwest Florida Chautauqua Assembly Registration Form Lake DeFuniak – DeFuniak Springs, Florida (NW FL) January 22rd – 25th, 2015 http://www.florida-chautauqua-center.org/home Directions http://www.florida-chautauqua-center.org/travel_info Arrival will be all day on Jan 22rd and departure will not be until 4:00pm on Sunday Jan 26th, or you may be able to stay and extra night and leave on Monday morning Jan 27th
Registration Information: Only 20 Vintage units will be allowed to camp around Lake DeFuniak Registration fee: $40.00 Last Name ______First: 1) ______2) ______Number of Additional Guests or Children: ______+ $20 for Guests over 10 Additional $25 for TCT membership if you are not a current member. TRAILER YEAR ______Make ______Model______
Your Hometown and State: Email address and/or Phone #:
This information is for the window sign
Only vintage (pre-1980) rigs will be able to attend. Electric hook ups only. Restrooms/showers are available close by The registration fee of $40.00 will be used to cover costs. Excess funds will be donated to the Florida Chautauqua Assembly. Please make check payable to Tim Heintz, Or PayPal to: [email protected] An early submission of this registration form is recommended. After the 20 spots are filled there will be a waiting list, there are no over flow areas. Make Check Payable to Tim Heintz: Total amount of check ______Send this registration form along with your Check made payable to: Tim Heintz: send to 2600 McCormick Road, Panama City, FL 32409
If paying by PayPal, please send information above by email to [email protected]
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Tin Can Tourists 18th Annual Gathering Registration Form Camp Dearborn, Milford MI - May 14th – May 17th, 2015
Registration Information: Last Name ______First: ______Spouse/Partner______Address ______City ______State____ Zip_____ Email: ______Phone: ______Circle One of the Following as the area in which you would like a site. Electric Only or Full Hook-up site Number of Additional Guests or Children: ______
Trailer/Motor Coach that you will be bringing to the Annual Gathering YEAR ______Make ______Model______
Registration Fee $120.00 for two adults includes Annual Membership, Window Sign, Entertainment, Catered Meals, and Morning Coffee with sweet treats
Registration for One Adult is $90.00
Add $30.00 for each additional guest or child 10 or older
Note: After receipt of the registration and payment, your name will be forwarded to the Camp Office and you will then be allowed to reserve a site by calling Camp at 248.684.6000.
These site reservations will be made about the middle of February.
Total amount of check ______
Send this application along with your Check made payable to: FORREST BONE – to 4 High Street, Bradenton, Florida 34208
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Tin Can Tourists
Fall Gathering Registration Form
Camp Dearborn, Milford, Michigan – September 24-27, 2015
Registration Information:
Last Name ______First: His) ______Hers) ______
Number of Additional Guests or Children: ______
I will be bringing the following trailer/motor coach to the Gathering:
YEAR ______MAKE ______MODEL______
If any of your contact information has changed, list it below:
Street Address, City, State, Zip
Email address: Phone Number:
Registration Fee $120.00 for two adults includes, Window Sign, two dinners and one breakfast, entertainment and dance music.
Note: your registration fee does not cover a camping site. You must register with the camp office at 248-684-6000 for your camping site. After receive a receipt from me, Camp will have your registration information and it will be OK to call to reserve a site – 248.684.6000. Registration for One Adult is $90.00 Add $30.00 for each additional guest or child 10 or older
Registration two Adults $120.00 + guests ($30.00) =
Total amount of check ______
NO PAYPAL FOR THIS EVENT – SEND A CHECK AND PLEASE MAKE IT PAYABLE TO FORREST BONE
Send this form along with your Check. Please make it payable to: FORREST BONE –
to 4 High Street, Bradenton Florida 34208 in the winter and to PO Box 489, Gregory, Michigan 48137 after April 15th Registration Procedure: You must make you own site reservation with the Camp Office by calling 248-684-6000. Refer to the camp map at http://www.campdearborn.com/ click on the campsite map.
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Tin Can Tourists
95th Annual Convention Sertoma Youth Ranch, Brooksville, Florida
February 19-22, 2015
Sites will be available for early arrivals as well as those that want to stay longer
Registration Information: Last Name ______
First: His) ______Hers)______
Contact information: (Mailing address - Phone and email address)
______
Number of Additional Guests or Children: ______Trailer/Motor Coach bringing to the Winter Convention YEAR ______Make ______Model______
Registration Fee $150.00 per trailer for up to two adults includes three nights camping with water and electric, entertainment, morning coffee & breakfast treats, 2 catered breakfasts and BBQ dinner. Add an additional $30 for each adult guest or children over 10. No additional meal tickets will be available at the Convention. The John “Canner” Culp Special Interest Award will be the only award presented.
$150.00+$30 per guest or child+$25 for membership dues if applicable: If you would like to renew your dues for May 2014 to May 2015 add an additional $20 for the annual dues. Total amount of check ______
Send this registration along with your Check made payable to: FORREST BONE – 4 High Street, Bradenton, Florida 34208
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