Re: [Amc-list] close to OT but in season... :-)

[dan whitehead <freebird_58@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Be careful building your own camper.  Growing up my dad built a nice camper, we went 2 weeks every year all over the states, I don't know how they found the time or money.  Anyway, when he built it he forgot to put in a vent.  The first night he lit the stove to heat the camper and woke up a little later when it went out and started getting cold.  Realized the oxygen was running out and opened the door then woke everyone up.  The next day there was a vent in the camper.  This was over 40 years ago and one of the stories I'll never forget.  
 
AMC content, I started getting the Spirit ready for the 390.
 
Dan Whitehead
Southern Wisconsin
 
Rambler content: campers small enough to be towed by even the smallest AMC, and keeping with RM (Rambler Mentality): I toyed with the idea of making my own camper from a generic trailer kit (I have one, a harbor fright unit that I'm actually quite happy with -- $150!). What I was thinking of sounds laughable, but it's based upon a quick and cheap structure we've used for three years now on the Black Rock desert playa and has survived 70 mph sand storms: a "quonset hut" made from stressed PVC hoops. (THere are clever but simple tricks that make it work.) To apply to a travel trailer would basically be... a conestoga wagon! Trailer with flat platform and storage underneath, set up the hoops and tarp on top. I trimmed the PVC such that in-stock tarps fit.
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