OMG Another Opportunity for a Back to the Future FGRV

[Bob Miller]

Heads Up, start your own FGRV company
List Member Gail Frasier sent me this link for a 60's - 70's FGRV start up that apparently didn't make the cut.
Taking Bids.....

1960s travel trailers venture


Just to add, it's only about 50 miles from Scamp.....Hmmmmm....?

[David Tilston]

Umm... That is one but ugly trailer. The mold looks like it is impossible to get anything out. Do you have to disassemble the mold?

[mary and bob]

SOLD

[David Tilston]

Congrats?

[Bob Miller]

WOW... Sold on the 1st day of the ad????


I think that they look very 60's cool.


I hope that someone finishes out the yellow one, it looks like it's on a rolling chassis. Hope that they have the door mold.


Maybe the next person to visit Backus (Scamp) might want to look around the back storage lot..... LOL

[mary and bob]

No, I didn't buy them. A member on another trailer forum called and was told they were sold. Their origin would be an interesting story, as would be what happens to them in the future.

[David Tilston]

I have been studying the pictures. In the black material, there appears to be a wheel well, but no wheel well is apparent on the green trailer. There also seems to be a door in the black material, but it doesn't have the arched top, like the trailer. Weird.

[Kevin A]

It's also not very close to Backus, MN, either. The location is Ironwood, Michigan, which is about 240 miles east of Backus. Still an interesting proposition!

[Lv4toys]

It would be fun to know how much the lot sold for. It's an interesting trailer design, but I doubt you could sell enough to make it worth your while - could be wrong.

[Bob Miller]

Ooops, my bad. I entered Ironwood MN not MI..... that's about 52 miles away from Scamp....lololol

[Jon in AZ]

Thought I'd upload the photos for archival purposes…

[Bob Miller]

Thank You Jon. Now if we can ever find a name for what was to be.....

[Mike Magee]

I think they look pretty neat. Imagine how that would look behind a '57 to '59 Ford or Chevy. What was the asking price for the stuff?

Hard to believe that someone actually made the molds and molded a couple of bodies, but never finished them out. Why not at least get some investment out of the one's you've made? Strange.

[Bob Miller]

The original ad said: "Taking Bids"
Apparently someone offered well over what they wanted and it sold on the first day of advertising, much like many FGRV's. LOL


I somehow guess that this was a case of someone cleaning out abandoned stuff from an old building just to get it empty. Maybe $500 did it, maybe $10,000 was the right price, we may never know. (I just hope it wasn't $500.... ouch)

[CarltonC.]

But what a beautiful idea.

[Jim Bennett]

I bet it is a fairly strong shell, with all the moulded features giving it strength. I would love to see one of these fixed up, and on the road. Heck, I would like to just buy a shell and play with the interior, maybe fixing it up real retro-like.

[mary and bob]

I heard bids from TCT members were up to $20,000

[mary and bob]

Now hearing $28,000 as the final price

[Jon in AZ]

Hopefully a collector and not someone thinking this is an easy business start-up. BTW, what's TCT?

[mary and bob]

TCT, Tin Can Tourists, vintage camper group