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04-04-2019, 04:11 PM
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Senior Member
Trailer: Escape 17 ft Plan B
Posts: 2,388
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It's Not Fiberglass, But
I just saw my first Bowlus "Endless Highways" trailer, a $185,000.00 aluminum single axle trailer with a front facing entrance door:
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04-04-2019, 04:15 PM
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Senior Member
Trailer: Escape 17 ft
Posts: 8,317
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Did they explain that hitch wheel set up?
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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04-04-2019, 04:23 PM
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Senior Member
Trailer: Escape 17 ft Plan B
Posts: 2,388
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Glenn Baglo
Did they explain that hitch wheel set up?
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Nope! I'm still in shock from the price...
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04-04-2019, 05:29 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Jon
Trailer: 2008 Scamp 13 S1
Arizona
Posts: 11,953
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I have long admired this one. The galley and living quarters are reminiscent of an old-fashioned railway car, and the sleeping quarters yacht-like. More practical than either, though not by much.
It has some unusual and high-end mechanicals, as I recall, so it’s not all show.
Way cool! Where did you run into it, Jon?
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04-04-2019, 06:12 PM
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Senior Member
Trailer: Escape 17 ft
Posts: 8,317
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For all that, it has a hand-cranked jack.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
- Bertolt Brecht
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04-05-2019, 10:36 AM
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Senior Member
Name: sharon
Trailer: Scamp
Virginia
Posts: 201
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Looks like an old time jersey diner
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04-05-2019, 11:08 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Bruce & Kathryn
Trailer: Bigfoot 25 RQ
North Carolina
Posts: 165
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Hand crank jack and $10 plastic step. Hmmm. Nice concept but seems to be missing a beat. Probably to maintain “purity of design.” Or something....
But neat trailer.
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Buce, Kathryn & Oscar the pug
Bigfoot 25 RQ
Towed by 2018 Chevy High Country Duramax
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04-05-2019, 11:47 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Greg
Trailer: 2016 Escape 19
Tennessee
Posts: 264
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon in AZ
I have long admired this one. The galley and living quarters are reminiscent of an old-fashioned railway car, and the sleeping quarters yacht-like. More practical than either, though not by much.
It has some unusual and high-end mechanicals, as I recall, so it’s not all show.
Way cool! Where did you run into it, Jon?
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He posted this on his blog, and it's at Henry Horton State Park, Chapel Hill TN, 5 minutes from my house. I think I'll go see it this weekend
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04-05-2019, 12:15 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Steve
Trailer: Escape 15A
Minnesota
Posts: 452
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Interesting trailer, though I would have guessed about half of the actual price.
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04-05-2019, 02:19 PM
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Senior Member
Trailer: Scamp 16 ft Side Dinette
Posts: 1,279
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Outside it looks like an upside down boat. Inside like the officer's quarters of a small submarine. Their "aircraft style riveting" is NOT. the heads are fat and stick out instead of being flush. It could be about 6" wider for a roomier center aisle…
Where are the batteries and LP tanks? Outside cargo door?
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04-05-2019, 02:59 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Mac
Trailer: 2013 Casita 17' LD
Oregon
Posts: 176
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Saw one of those recently at Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada. Only there for a night. Highly polished aluminum.
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04-05-2019, 05:03 PM
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Junior Member
Name: Gnuu
Trailer: Sprinter
Virginia
Posts: 18
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Did they get told what the real insulation was?
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Originally Posted by Jon Vermilye
Nope! I'm still in shock from the price...
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Reading the Bowlus web site, they say that there is a layer of insulation between two sheets of thicker aircraft aluminum as opposed to the thinner aluminum used in Airstreams. They do not say what the insulation is or what its R-Value is. Given that the inner and outer sheets are aluminum and that is a wonderfully CONDUCTIVE metal, I would love to know what it is and whether it actually works. In the meantime, what we thought were overpriced Oliver and Bigfoot trailers are beginning to look like BUDGET trailers by comparison. Thank you for sharing the information and the price.
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Walk in His Peace,
David
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04-05-2019, 06:06 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Charlie
Trailer: 2014 Lil Snoozy
North Carolina
Posts: 789
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That is a truly aerodynamic shape.
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04-06-2019, 08:08 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Kathleen (Kai: ai as in wait)
Trailer: Amerigo FG-16 1973 "Peanut"
Greater Seattle Metropolitan Area, Washington
Posts: 2,566
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Designed and built for those for whom the best "might" be good enough...
I'm glad our taste doesn't run to it, though the "shotgun" layout is nice--in its way.
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04-06-2019, 08:36 AM
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Senior Member
Trailer: 1988 16 ft Scamp Deluxe
Posts: 25,707
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Different strokes for different folks. I learned along time ago to appreciate what others have/want. After all, it's their budget not mine. So while I may never want to own this particular trailer, I can be happy for the couple that owns it.
There's a saying: It's really NOT what you tow, it's that you go.
So whatever you have... go make good memories!
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Ten Forward - 2014 Escape 5.0 TA
Double Yolk - 1988 16' Scamp Deluxe
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04-17-2019, 10:26 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Jerrybob
Trailer: casita
Washington
Posts: 703
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Very neat looking but outrageous price.....there must be a market or they wouldn't make them. I would just buy a dozen Casita's and leave them in all the campgrounds I enjoy if I had that kind of money....LOL! Seriously....to each their own. Safe travels.
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04-17-2019, 11:27 AM
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Senior Member
Trailer: Compact Jr
Posts: 274
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wayne Collins
Outside it looks like an upside down boat. Inside like the officer's quarters of a small submarine. Their "aircraft style riveting" is NOT. the heads are fat and stick out instead of being flush. It could be about 6" wider for a roomier center aisle…
Where are the batteries and LP tanks? Outside cargo door?
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Some aircraft have dome-head rivets. Boeing's YC-14 prototype, for example, uses dome head rivets on the aft fuselage; back there the airflow has already separated so surface smoothness is no longer such a big concern. On the forward fuselage, where smoothness is a concern, it uses flush-head rivets.
Also, nice trailer!
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04-17-2019, 12:11 PM
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Senior Member
Trailer: Y2K6 Bigfoot 25 ft (25B25RQ) & Y2K3 Scamp 16 ft Side Dinette
Posts: 5,040
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Bowlus Road Chief #3
I attended the annual Midwest Airforums.com forum ralley at Moraine View State Park in LeRoy IL a couple of years ago, and Bowlus Road Chief #3 was in the next campsite over from ours.
https://flic.kr/s/aHskeaqDVo
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04-17-2019, 01:59 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Kelly
Trailer: Trails West
Oregon
Posts: 3,046
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Its a "hand crafted" work of art There are vastly more labor hours in that product versus producing a molded fiberglass shell. Also the cost of the metal is significantly higher than the materials used to make molded fiberglass trailers. When you take those factors into account it is not a "rip off" priced product. You really could not sell it for less than that cost and still have a profit or pay the workers a living wage. It is what it is, a well made example of a visually interesting, finely crafted, small scaled manufacturing production of a unique RV.
The world has a place for such things and I hope even though not everyone can afford them that there will always be someone who wants to make them and customers who want to buy them.
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04-17-2019, 02:58 PM
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Senior Member
Name: Harold
Trailer: 1975 Scamp, 13-foot
Redding, California
Posts: 390
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For the stingier among us there's the Bowlus Road Chief – On The Road: $137,000 (can be financed as low $693/month).
https://bowlusroadchief.com/on-the-road/
Sleeps 4 but dines 2? I guess you have to eat in shifts.
To each their own, but for that kind of money I would expect it to come with a tow vehicle and a companion.
Harold
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