The Tin Can Tourists club is excited to announce another state representative to support our growing club. Please welcome and say hello to Gail Leggett our new Arizona State Representative! Gail’s Email: ggleggett@hotmail.com I live on an acre in the foothills of Oro Valley (Tucson), Arizona with my husband, 2 dogs, […]
The Fiddlers Picnic is a 44 year old acoustic music jam held on the Old Mercier Ranch on the South side of Livingston, MT. August 3-5. The event is just North of Yellowstone National Park and on the banks of the Yellowstone River Within that event is the Fiddlers Picnic […]
READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE SUN, SURF AND ALUMINUM ALL SHINE AT THE PORT CRESCENT VINTAGE CAMPER SHOW By : William Flood August 06, 2018 If you’ve not had the fortune to experience the Great Lakes during summertime, you are in for a treat. Picture the Caribbean without the palm trees […]
Art, Community, Food, and Vintage! Join the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art for Cruisin’ the Coast! We will be presenting a two-day vintage camper rally along side the 2018 George Ohr Fest. Festivities will include great local food, bonfires, a community art project, art vendors, local craft beer and micro-brews, and […]
Great coverage of the 2018 TCT Great River Road Vintage Trailer Rally, Friday at Illiniwek Forest Preserve Campground. Read “The Dispatch” article here https://qconline.com/news/local/vintage-trailers-show-off-retro-glory-at-illiniwek/article_9c87797c-881d-5809-81c1-24c4288cf651.html Tags: campground, TCT, Trailer Rally, Vintage Trailer, Vintage Trailer Rally, Vintage Trailers
by Paul Lacitinola Vintage trailers can be a fun and economical hobby whether you are 16 or 75 years old or somewhere in between. If you can tow a small trailer, you are sure to be welcomed to one of the hundreds of vintage trailer rallies happening across the USA […]
JOIN OUR SURFIN’ SAFARI IN HEMET, CALIF.! Gear up your Woodies and VW Buses, and get ready to cruise back in time to SoCal in the ’60s at Golden Village Palms RV Resort’s 5th Annual “Surfin’ USA” Pre-1985 Vintage Trailers, Campers & Classic Car Show. Sixties beach vibes never looked […]
The Thrifter Sisters Flea Market and Vintage Camper Show will be at the Marquette County Fairgrounds, July 14th, with camping at the Marquette County Fairgrounds starting July 13th, and going throughout the weekend. (This is a full hookup campground.) Come stay during the Thrifter Sisters Flea Market, shop, show off […]
The first thing to understand, a serial number is your VIN for a Vintage Trailer. Those terms are used interchangably and the DMV has a hard time with this because they don’t normally deal with vehicles that are this old. They will ask you for the VIN and expect a […]
Contacting the seller Make sure of a few things before you head off down the road to go look at a trailer. When contacting the seller be sure to find out anything the ad did not include that you want to know. Even if it stated it in the ad […]
This will be our 2nd annual Halloween Hootenany camping event for the Trailerites. The event features meet and greet snacks, pot luck dinner, doggie parade and “trick or treat”, decorating our vintage trailers and motor homes for Halloween, campground wide trick or treat (75+kids last year), door prizes, nightly community […]
3rd Annual Vintage Trailer Rally All model trailers are welcome to join in the fun! We have a full weekend of fun planned here at the campground. 2 breakfasts & 2 dinners included in the $30 per person rally fee. Full hook up sites discounted to $50 per night. Centrally […]
“Gypsy Soul Travelers” Rally Jasper County Fairgrounds, Rensselaer, In September 28-30, 2018 Bring your oldie but goodie and have some fun with vintage camper enthusiasts like yourself, at the Jasper County Fairground. – Vintage Campers / RV’s – 1979 and Older Models. – Public Open House/ Tours. – Showers & […]
We love our vintage trailers and campers so much that we must make them part of our holiday decorations. Here is a sampling of Tin Can Tourists trailers decorated for the holidays and the decorations in our homes that remind us of our shared passions. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas! […]
A chance to meet others, mingle, relax, share ideas with others into Tin Cans we call our home away from home!. But also to show off your vintage Trailer or motorhome to others in lovely Eureka Springs ArkansasI This is just in time for the great fall colors! Lots to […]
Here is a presentation on the history of the Tin Can Tourists Club Notes for the Slides: 1. Tin Can Tourists Forrest & Jeri Bone 2. Credits: Florida History Museum Orange County Museum (Orlando) Florida Library & Information Services www.dos.state.fl.us.dlis History Wired – Smithsonian www.historywired.si.edu Library of Congress www.lcweb.loc.gov Mr. […]
A full moon and cool weather made a perfect week end in Northern Utah.We had a nice show up of some new folks with trailers and old members with “new” trailers. Both the pot luck and the pulled pork dinner went well and nobody went home hungry. Franklin Smith played […]
2016 TCT Bend Classic Vintage Trailer Rally Over 55 vintage trailers attended the second Bend Classic Vintage Trailer Rally at the J BarJ Youth Ranch on the edge of Bend OR. August 10-14. Proceeds went to support the good work of the ranch The Various public reports of open house […]
Kim Jarrett of MobileRVing.com did a nice feature on us… Described as “happiness on wheels” vintage trailers have steadily been increasing in popularity in recent years. The interest in these relics of road history has sparked in part because of new television shows such as “Flipping RVs” which dedicate 30 […]
TCT Regional Representatives TCT has grown to the point that Jeri and Forrest felt we could better serve our membership through an organizational pattern that would include volunteer Regional and State Representatives. The Representatives are being asked to develop activities in their geographical region and serve as a sounding board […]
