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Teardrop
trailers - homemade
"One of the neat
things about teardrops
is you spend more time
outside. In the big
units, they sit watching
TV. We with the
teardrops are sitting
outside around a
campfire lying to each
other and having fun"
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2/28/2011 -
The following extract from an
article is by, and reproduced from,
Scott Richardson, pantagraph.com
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to full story
PEORIA - Gary Daniel and Don
Wheeler are do-it-yourselfers who built
their own "teardrops," which are
compact, efficient travel trailers
measuring just 4 feet by 8 feet.
Larger ones stretch a bit longer and
wider. But they're still basically just
bedrooms on wheels.
"We call it 'camping with a dry bed,'"
said Wheeler, 64, of Groveland, a member
of the Illinois contingent of a national
club called the Tearjerkers.
Teardrops often have simple,
well-organized kitchenettes that are
fold-down tables for a workspace. Some
have sinks with running water. Most
teardrops are homemade so owners have a
chance to decorate in unique styles to
reflect their personalities.
Daniel and Wheeler will be among
teardrop owners who will display their
rigs at the Central Illinois
Recreational Show at the Peoria Civic
Center from Friday through March 6. The
event also will feature recreational
vehicles of all kinds, including travel
trailers, fifth-wheels and motor homes.
Vendors will represent campgrounds, tow
vehicle dealers, ATV and golf cart sales
and more. |
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Daniel
built his teardrop to have an inexpensive
way to travel to shows catering to his first
love, street rods. He is president of the
River Valley Drifters, a street-rod club
based in the Peoria area. He's restored
several vehicles since his dad passed his
enthusiasm for cars to him as a boy. He has
a 1937 Cadillac LaSalle Coupe and a black
1950 Chevy with flames, which his teardrop
is painted to match. He is creating a street
rod from a 1954 cab-over-engine half-ton
Chevy truck that once was a farm vehicle. He
is also building a second teardrop that will
be painted to match the truck.
"It's going to be awesome," said Daniel, 71,
a retired salesman.
One of his friends seems to have started a
teardrop fad in the street-rod club when he
found an old teardrop trailer in the woods
and decided to restore it. The metal-covered
teardrop probably dated to the 1940s.
Teardrops date to the Great Depression. They
were simple and cheap to build from spare
wood. They were also aerodynamic and light,
which kept down fuel costs, Daniel said.
Blueprints and directions appeared in how-to
magazines of that day, including Popular
Mechanics. After World War II, teardrop
builders were able to use surplus aluminum.
Daniel and his wife, Stephanie, love the
teardrop Daniel built from cast-off bed
frames, plywood, a makeshift axle and
wheels. They added a pressurized six-gallon
tank for running water and a Coleman stove.
The interior is paneled with wood and
features shelves for a television and DVD
player for movies.
At least two other friends are building
teardrops, so they are fashioning an
air-conditioning unit that will sit outside
and keep up to four teardrops cool. He also
has a shower that uses sun-heated water for
hot showers.
But the teardrop is still mainly for
sleeping. Even Stephanie Daniel, who is 5
feet, 10 inches tall, has plenty of room to
stretch out inside. Still, the teardrop is
usually the smallest trailer in the
campground, a fact that doesn't bother
Daniel at all.
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"One of the neat things about teardrops
is you spend more time outside. In the
big units, they sit watching TV. We with
the teardrops are sitting outside around
a campfire lying to each other and
having fun," he said.
The teardrop is equipped with a
microwave. They carry a camp stove to
use on picnic tables to keep the mess
away from the trailer. They also have a
TV/DVD player mounted inside. A fan is
enough for cooling. A heated mattress
pad keeps them warm on cool nights. Full
screens keep bugs out. The couple buys a
week's worth of groceries, carries a
week's worth of clothes in the
teardrop's closet and stops every seven
days to do laundry and re-supply.
The best part: "You have a dry bed. It
starts raining or storming, you can get
inside and shut the door. You don't have
to worry about floating around on an air
mattress," he said..
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