Maintenance & Restoration

samuel · 10-30-2009, 03:53 PM

Hello to all fiberglass RV owners!!!

First, i'm spanish, so, sorry for my poor and low level english!
I have one spanish fiberglass RV model named Taylor (older spanish fiberglas-ship builder) model Pradera. Taylor only built 400 units of RV Pradera, and few units of the prototype Horizonte, all in 1978. The Taylor Pradera owners have one public group in google, but we are only ten members.

I'm looking for more models of fiberglass RV in the world, and i was found fiberglassv.com, i'm very happy!!! I love the americans fiberglass RV models, but i love the Biod bambi (holland).

One of my dreams is go camping inside one Nascar track ( go #42! ) truck or sprint series...

Thanks!

Vickie B. · 10-30-2009, 03:59 PM

What a beautiful camper! Do you have any inside pictures???

Welcome!!!

Chester Taje · 10-30-2009, 04:02 PM

Welcome to this forum. Your English is just fine. Enjoy and Have fun.

Booker B. · 10-30-2009, 05:25 PM

Wow, that looks so much like a Trillium 1300 right down to light mounts. Here's a few other pictures I found of them

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Donna D. · 10-30-2009, 05:53 PM

Welcome to FiberglassRV Samuel. We're glad you found us!

We hope you'll come back and post often. Especially of your travels, some of us live vicariously and as you'll find out we love pictures!

BTW: your English is just fine!

John Hussey · 10-30-2009, 06:56 PM

Samuel, bienvenido al foro.

A Spanish perspective will be refreshing.

CindyL · 10-30-2009, 07:42 PM

Welcome, Samuel,

You have a very cute trailer. We hope you will post often.

CindyL

Robin G · 10-30-2009, 09:01 PM

glad you joined us! Would love to see interior photo's of your cute trailer. Actually more photo's of the outside would be great too. Were you able to see all the varieties of fiberglass trailers on the homepage of fiberglassrv.com?

Well if you ever make it here for a Nascar campout, you will have to try and join a Rally where you would have an opportunity to see all kinds of different fiberglass trailers. Again, glad you joined us. Robin

samuel · 10-31-2009, 02:21 AM

Thanks to all for wellcome!

OHH! Booker B, the first and third photo are of the RV of spanish friend, Pau, the administrator of the public google group of Taylor Pradera!!! jejejeejjjejej

New photos (inside and outside) of my RV cooming soon.

thanks!

pau valiente · 10-31-2009, 06:12 AM

Hi everyone!
I'm Pau, Samuel's friend from spain, the owner of the rv show'd above!
It's incredible how similar are the Taylor's from the Trillium rv too! Do anybody know if trillium did build boats too?
Maybe was a licenced design that Taylor bought from Trillium?

More pics of my Taylor:
http://www.flickr.com/search/show/?q=carav...%40N00&ss=2

Nice to meet you all!
Pau Valiente

John Hussey · 10-31-2009, 06:59 AM

Two different RVs?
Two different license plates-one with prefix "M", another with prefix "B".
Long ago that would have been, on cars at least, license prefixes for "Madrid" and "Barcelona".
All photos nicely done, thanks for sharing.
They brought back some very fond memories!

samuel · 10-31-2009, 07:25 AM

Hi Everyone, hi Pau!
"Maybe was a licenced design that Taylor bought from Trillium?"
it's possible, in early time ( 1978 )Ebro was a licenced of Jeep, and the Ebro Bravo in spain was the same Jeep wrangler in usa. I don't thing if you understand me... The same for RV...

brian m. · 10-31-2009, 07:29 AM

Hi Pau,
I enjoyed your travel photos. Very nice!

pau valiente · 10-31-2009, 07:43 AM

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Two different RVs?
Two different license plates-one with prefix "M", another with prefix "B".
Long ago that would have been, on cars at least, license prefixes for "Madrid" and "Barcelona".
All photos nicely done, thanks for sharing.
They brought back some very fond memories!

John, nice find! :-D
In spain the smaller trailers (less than 750 kg of weight) have to show the licence plate of the car towing them, and as I had two cars I had to change the licence plate on the trailer. The bigger trailers have it's own licence number and they have to show both plates, their own and the towing vehicle plate. How is it in US?

Yes, the letters are from the province the car is buy'd, and yes, B from Barcelons (my home town) and M for Madrid where I'm actually living. ;-) Four or five years ago they changed the way the licence numbers where given, doing a national numbering to all of them, so now you can't say where the car is from by the license plate.
How do you know so much about spain's licensing letters?

Thanks for your kind words about the photographs! :-D

pau valiente · 10-31-2009, 07:44 AM

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Hi Everyone, hi Pau!
"Maybe was a licenced design that Taylor bought from Trillium?"
it's possible, in early time ( 1978 )Ebro was a licenced of Jeep, and the Ebro Bravo in spain was the same Jeep wrangler in usa. I don't thing if you understand me... The same for RV...

Samuel, I didn't know Ebro had licenced Jeep for cars, nice to know! It's possible then that Taylor did licence to trillium. The trillium have also on the door a relieve motiv, but in the taylor case this motiv is an anchor form I suppose because their original field was boats. ;-)

pau valiente · 10-31-2009, 07:52 AM

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Hi Pau,
I enjoyed your travel photos. Very nice!

Brian, you have nice photos on your casita blog also!! I can see you are a professional photographer. Nice images!
It's cool to see a combo of trailer and vehicle like yours, it makes it very solid!

Emily R. · 10-31-2009, 09:03 AM

Welcome Samuel and Pau!
Great photos Pau, love all the sunset shots, so beautiful.
Nice trailers, nice country side!

Robin G · 10-31-2009, 09:50 AM

to you too Pau! How fun to have you both join us...........

Fabulous slideshow! Thanks for posting it. Beautiful country your from.

Trailers require their own license plates for the most part, I say "most part" cause some states don't require older little travel trailer to be licensed but that's rare.

I am not sure about other States but know that here in Colorado some of the letter's do represent the county for which it was licensed. But other than that it's just random. Hopefully others will be able to explain how it works from their state. Again, Welcome and Thanks for the pictures!

Robin G · 10-31-2009, 10:46 AM

Samuel and Pau, you both have said you like seeing different Fiberglass trailers, I wasn't sure if you had run across this post here on fiberglassrv of fiberglass trailers that their owners have painted. It's a long post ( cause it is years of collections of pic's posted of painted glass) Enjoy!

Paint Job's