One cool little camper, privacy from the back, great view from the front

found on http://lonelycoast.tumblr.com/post/3555289413/pretty-chic-little-camper

One cool little camper, privacy from the back, great view from the front

found on http://lonelycoast.tumblr.com/post/3555289413/pretty-chic-little-camper

Have you seen a car made into a RV? someone really nailed it with this Rambler American in Argentina

This comes from Fosiles Mecanicos blogspot, and for a super easy way to read it (or any website) in your own language, use Google Chrome as a browser (it's a free download) and then you'll have no problem with translation.

I'm going to keep browsing through http://fosilesmecanicos.blogspot.com/ because Gabriel is finding cool stuff around his neighborhoods

Am I right about how well they made it look like a RV? It beats the hell out of the ShamRockAway for good looks http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/photos-of-unusual-from-days-gone-by.html

Have you seen a car made into a RV? someone really nailed it with this Rambler American in Argentina

This comes from Fosiles Mecanicos blogspot, and for a super easy way to read it (or any website) in your own language, use Google Chrome as a browser (it's a free download) and then you'll have no problem with translation.

I'm going to keep browsing through http://fosilesmecanicos.blogspot.com/ because Gabriel is finding cool stuff around his neighborhoods

Am I right about how well they made it look like a RV? It beats the hell out of the ShamRockAway for good looks http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/photos-of-unusual-from-days-gone-by.html

Photos of the unusual from days gone by thread on the HAMB

Sad.

Looks like 2 or 3 Buick bodies grafted together with an RV on top.
I just found this post on the Hemmings Blog, and it identifies this vehicle as having been called the ShamRockAway http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/01/31/hemmings-find-of-the-day-the-shamrockaway

if you guessed the above is a stretched Locomobile Model 48 with a 525 CI six, you're right

Never seen Jeeps on a transporter before

From http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=270

1937 Ford house car

when discovered in a garage (under a heavy cover) in Northern Minnesota in August 2001, she had only 19,000 miles, and the owner’s manual was actually still in the glove box in like-new condition!
She had always been garaged and treated with ‘Much TLC’ as a collector vehicle.
The interior, all wood lined, was still the way it appeared in the ’30′s and ’40′s, complete with framed photos of the original owner on his travels (mainly to Florida) and his cabin in the North Woods, plus and other memorabilia from the era.
Built on the ’37 Ford Pickup frame and cowling (powered by a 60-hp flathead V8 with aluminum heads), the rear framing is all wood, with the metal skin wrapped around it. The roof structure, too, is all wood, over which the heavy, waterproofed canvas top is still very securely fitted. The structure of the Body is solid, appearing from underneath to be all oak, and still in a remarkably unaltered, undamaged condition. The door frames are thick, solid oak, and oak is visible around the window openings (as on the four side windows in back) — though it is painted over.
She was a big hit at this campground once we got that Great old flattie V8 hummin’! Note her expanding roof and the original dark green color, which had been repainted. I figure the canvas roof was originally painted in reflective silver to keep it from getting too hot inside. All four side windows open, while the back one tilts out to three positions. The windshield also tilts open at the bottom for natural AC while driving.
Here are a few shots of her in August 2001, out on the road in the Chippewa National Forest north of Grand Rapids via: http://saddlebrookesmiles.wordpress.com/page/4

looks like a well planned trip... except for breaking down on the side of interstate 5 in LA

Be careful out there, idiots are driving unsafely. This idiot has 3 back wheels, missing one on the right rear dualie, unsafe to turn at speed

You should have seen this lean when the RV changed lanes. Dangerous!

A couple more unusual SAAB rv's

From http://voiture-jaune.tumblr.com

slammedsixty.blogspot.com is finding some cool unusual stuff out there!

Above is a custom hot rodded '46 Crosley and below are SAAB rv's.

check out the variety of cool stuff with a heavy emphasis on VW's and Kombis mostly at http://slammedsixty.blogspot.com/

interesting unusual vehicles on Friendship-classics Tumbler

1937 or '38 Hunt House car, also called the Turtle by some.

1971 Starstreak motorhome

Via: http://friendship-classics.tumblr.com/

Coolest thing we'll see this week, off roading just got more awesome

This is called the Chainlink Extreme according to the vidoe title.

Above images via: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/dodge-deora-by-alexander-brothers.html

Via the "mad about wheels" great finders at AutoMotto: http://www.automotto.org/entry/chainlink-4x4-is-frighteningly-awesome/

1936 Plymouth RV camper

Via: http://www.super2cv.com/

Cool designs, and trailers I'd love to admire in person

On the road in the mid 1930's, from Beirut to Baghdad, by way of Damascus, reminded me of the 1937 D-35 Jungle Caravan of Commander Gatti http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/09/extraordinary-designer-of-automotive.html

The above was designed by Brooks Stevens, its a 1936 Zephyr Land Yacht

The above is a Curtiss Aerocar trailer. I'd like to see a photo of the rig in the trunk of the car towing it. It reminded me of http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/12/rare-trailer-and-pulling-car-combo.html

1932 Arrow Plane in a museum in Mesa Arizona

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/category/trailers/

Finally found out what the story is on this custom

No idea where the first photo came from, the full side shot, but the bottom 3 and the full write up are here: http://rockindownthehighway.blogspot.com/2007/09/rockin-great-time-at-billetproof-07.html

It's a 1937 one of a kind made by a mechanic at the San Fransisco Chris Craft boatworks (they were a prominent luxury wood yacht company until they switched to fiberglass in the mid 60's), it was restored by customizer Art Himsl in '02.

Dubbed the Zeppelin by Art Himsl, it started out its life as a prototype house car built by a mechanic at the Chris-Craft boat dealership in San Francisco. A San Francisco doctor who had high hopes of manufacturing a number of them commissioned the vehicle, but World War II material shortages effectively ended his quest. Records show that it was registered in 1942 as a Plymouth house car.

Himsl discovered the vehicle in 1968 when he and his friend Ed Green saw the aft end of it sticking out of a barn in California’s Napa Valley. Himsl and Green used the vehicle for a few years as sort of an office, but they did not begin a serious restoration until 1999. The first order of business was to refurbish and modernize the drive components. Air-lift bags were added to all four corners, a 350 Chevy engine replaced the old flathead engine, and most of the old running gear was replaced. The original skin on the vehicle was a mixture of steel panels and stretched fabric. Himsl ripped off all the old skin and replaced it with a modern material Stitz Poly-Fiber. Fenders were replaced (the original vehicle did not have front fenders), the nose was reconstructed, and Himsl applied a spectacular finish in an Art Deco theme. The vehicle was rechristened in 2002 as the 1937 Himsl Zeppelin Roadliner.

World's first redneck rv joke

From Shorpy