Very cool old camper

Paul Shuler · May 29, 2014

Was looking at cool old trucks on line and stumbled across this photo and just thought it was so cool I wanted to share it. Hope you guys don’t mind. Its old but not a tractor.

rd 2N in mo · May 29, 2014

hope he knows clearance required!

ryanwheelock · May 29, 2014

Don't see many of those type of campers any more. Always wanted one because you still haul your boat behind it pretty easy.

John T · May 29, 2014

Thanks for posting that"s one BEAUTIFUL old truck camper. My very FIRST camper (around 1970) was a home made plywood topper I placed on the back of my 1966 Ford F 250 4X4 and drove it to Florida. Then I upgraded and got an 11 ft slide in truck camper on an old red Ford truck similar to the one in your post. Later I mounted that same camper on the back of a 1954 Ford F5 (think it was??) truck and headed to Wyoming and Montana Deere and Antelope hunting. The night before (got done at 2 AM) I pulled the hogs head and changed the ring and pinion gear and set it purely by hand and feel having never done one and headed to Wyoming at 5 AM AND THE DIFFERENTIAL WORKED FINE YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

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JRSutton · May 29, 2014

That's pretty cool.

Wouldn't mind owning that truck either.

Bob M · May 29, 2014

Magnificent!!

Mike (WA) · May 29, 2014

That's a real classic- I've seen them with the curved windows, but none that elaborate. Not many left, because after a few years outside most started leaking terribly, and in a few years, were shot. Would love to see the inside of that one.

We've had pickup campers pretty much continuously since 1972, because wife needs to tow a horse trailer most of the time.

massey333 · May 29, 2014

We had a Del-Rey like that from 1966 to 1978 and covered all of Canada-USA and in Alaska twice.They had a lifetime construction warranty.

Nancy Howell · May 29, 2014

You're absolutely right! One very cool old camper.

Gary Havlichek · May 29, 2014

Glad you posted it! I hear those old campers are the in thing at the rat rod car shows. I hope so I'm going to restore a 1955 IH 1/2 ton shot box that has an old sportsman camper on it. No where as neat a the one in the picture, Thanks!!

Anonymous-0 · May 29, 2014

want to see it again go to greenfield village in dearborn michigan on fathers day weekend. thats the place this was shot at. great show! i go every year.

ShadetreeRet · May 29, 2014

Quite a unique camper, never seen one with a penthouse! Thanks for the photo.

Bret4207 · May 30, 2014

I remember seeing campers like that long ago. I always like the idea of a slide in. You could tow your boat behind it. You used to see those rigs in Field and Stream, Outdoor Life, Sports Afield, FFG, Popular Mechanics, etc. back in the 60's and 70's. I was going to be a hunting and fishing expert and have one of those rigs back when I was a kid. You remember the guys back then- Joe Brooks, Ted Trueblood, AJ McLane, Homer Circle, Pete Brown, John Jobson, etc. Fedora hat, safari jacket and the straight stemmed pipe. It was all fantasy, but it was sure cool to a kid int he sticks like me.

NNP · May 30, 2014

nice
parents had a similarly massive Swinger truck camper back in the 60's on a F250.
Riding in the forward bed over the cab (2 more bunks over that one....massive)
watching the miles go by out the front window...
Probably illegal today....maybe then too...LOL

INCase · May 30, 2014

i saw that truck about 2 years ago at the car show at "the Ford" aka greenfield village in dearborn, mi. I suspect that is were the picture was taken even.

I was pretty cool.

noone would ever think of making one like that now days.

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