Post #585981 by RevBambooBen on Thu, Apr 21, 2011 5:35 PM

On 2011-04-21 13:48, bigbrotiki wrote:
Not to distract from my post above:

While waiting for some visual Tiki trailer treats, please indulge me by sharing a little of my own trailer trash past: Not the cool restored vintage trailer kind, but my early American years as that wild & crazy MOTORHOME MAN from Germany !

I had not driven one of these in almost 30 years:

Knowing that a rental RV was COMPLETELY UNCOOL in the vintage trailer and roughing-it camper crowd, I didn't even try to turn it into something unique. But for me personally, it was a trip down memory lane:

Here I am in 1981, much skinnier and darker-haired, with the Marin RV Rentals crew in San Rafael:

I'm the dapper guy in the blue jacket

I later worked for Chase Motorhomes, and when I moved down to L.A., for American Landcruisers in Manhattan Beach:
There I got my first work shirt with a stitched name tag:

Now I really felt like an American, these were not just some fake bowling shirt insignia !

The fun part about the job ( other than showing German tourists how to flush their poo ) was that I got to drive-away sold motorhomes up to Tacoma, all the way thru Oregon:

...and that I got to take out an R.V. over the weekend for myself on occasion. So I would check out a 16 mm camera at the S.F. Art Institute filmaking department (where I was a student) and pack up some friends and drive somewhere and make little art films:

...or I would drive down to L.A. and entertain such luminaries as Tequila Mockingbird and Mark Mothersbaugh ! :

R.V.s were the stretch limos of their day! :)

Behold, for example, the stylish "E.Z.-Ryder" on a Toyota chassis! :D :

Thank you for viewing some samples of my Pre-Tiki R.V. Rental life. Now back to the cool stuff.

Oh, here's the only decorating we did around our camper at Mo-asis:

This was provided by nature, right outside our front door, Naomi just added the candy :)

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2011-04-21 14:29 ]

Awesome stuff Sven! :)