Maintenance & Restoration

**Mary F** · 05-26-2006, 08:50 AM

Let's revive our poll of which brand of molded fiberglass travel trailers we own. If your brand isn't listed, please answer "other" and add a comment to specify which one is yours.

Thanks for participating!

**Gina D.** · 05-26-2006, 08:56 AM

Gotcha!

Good poll.

My previous trailers were mini pop ups. I sometimes miss the charm.. or... NOT.

I got the Burro, not by specific preference, but because when you go for old and used, you take whats available at the time. I probably would have been just as happy with any of them, sans.. a T@B.

We need to add one more category. What would you get NEXT time if money and circumstance were no object?

My answer.. 17 foot Bigfoot.

Dan Meyer · 05-26-2006, 10:12 AM

I chose "other" as my previous trailer, and that's not really the whole story.

Our Scamp is the first trailer my wife and I have owned. We rented a small Play-Mor stick built trailer for a week the year before we bought our Scamp. Also, I grew up camping as a kid. We started out in a Gottschalk (sp?) tent, moved up to a Bethany tent trailer (it was pink with a one-piece fiberglass roof!), and then to a 25 foot Executive (brand) motorhome (stick built with fiberglass end caps and roof) which Dad traded in for a 26 foot GMC motorhome (fiberglass and aluminium).

Next time? A Scamp 5er.

-- Dan Meyer

Jeanne and Steve · 05-26-2006, 10:40 AM

Mary,

Is there some way to be able to "vote" for two trailers in the same poll?

I'd hate to have to choose between voting for our Casita or U-Haul...

Jeanne

Byron Kinnaman · 05-26-2006, 11:11 AM

I gennerally like my eggs poached and sitting on a slice of ham with both sitting on an english muffin.

Now for trailers and explaining my previous, which I still have and intend to use, is a tinny barely room for two people backpacking tent.

Roy Massen · 05-26-2006, 11:17 AM

I tried to choose "other" for my previous trailer (got error messges until I marked something in that choice)

But suggest that someone add none as a choice since my Boler is my first trailer.

But what the heck - it's all in fun.

Roy

Brian B-P · 05-26-2006, 12:43 PM

Like Roy, the Boler is our first travel trailer. It is our first RV trailer (I have a small utility trailer), and our only previous RV experience is a week in a rental tent trailer - which led to the decision to get something with hard walls.

**Mary F** · 05-26-2006, 01:22 PM

Quote:

Mary,

Is there some way to be able to "vote" for two trailers in the same poll?

I'd hate to have to choose between voting for our Casita or U-Haul...

Jeanne

No, sorry. But, I did add another choice: [b]Help! I have more than one and don't know how to vote

Hope this helps!

**Mary F** · 05-26-2006, 01:23 PM

Quote:

Had to choose other for my previous trailer (got error messges until I marked something in that choice)

But suggest that someone add none as a choice since my Boler is my first trailer.

But what the heck - it's all in fun

Roy

Thanks, Roy. I added a more appropriate choice for others like you. Appreciate the suggestion.

BOBSMITH · 05-26-2006, 02:43 PM

Our Casita is the first trailer we've owned. When I was a kid, my dad had two slide-in campers for his half-ton Chevy pickup truck. The first one he built himself in 1962. The second one he traded for some Civil War books. I forget what brand it was, but it was a decent slide-in--stove, sink, water tank, overcab bed, table/bed, the usual. We had a lot of great trips in it, but I didn't want that type of rv. Once my wife and I saw a fiberglass rv, we got tunnelvision. It had to be fiberglass or we were just going to stick with our tent camping ways.

Of course when the bear raided our campsite at Standing Indian Campground, we knew we had to have a fiberglass trailer--AND FAST!

CD Smith · 05-26-2006, 03:01 PM

First trailer was 13 ft. stick built that slept 4. Pulled it with 1966 Corvair Coupe. It had a gas/110 Vac refer, 2-burner gas cook top with oven, sink with potable water tank), clothes closet, toilet with holding tank, but no airconditioner.

Latter we had a 1976 Chevrolet Camper Van . About the same size in side as the Casita, but slept 5 (made a custom bed for youngest in the cab). It had a gas/110 Vac refer, 2-burner gas cook top with oven, sink (no potable water tank), clothes closet with porta-pottie, and room airconditioner install in rear above door window.

Then came "The Egg".