Feature Trailer
Red Bullet
WORDS LISA MORA
PICS JERRY ZANDWIJK
Dirk and Jonna Jacobs live in a
city called Zoetermeer about
forty miles from Amsterdam in
the Netherlands. They named
their 1970 Fokker “Red Bullet” after the
mouldings on the side of their tow car: a
1958 Buick.
“If you look at the side of this car you can
see that the mouldings were made to look
like the fly by of a bullet”, explains Dirk.
During the week, Dirk works at a
government office, but on weekends he
and Jonna used to attend car shows and
camp in a tent. Eventually they decided
that a trailer would be more suited to
their needs.
“Of course that could not be a modern
trailer!” insists Dirk.
“I got all inspired by all the different
websites and Facebook pages about
vintage trailers and the choice was made.
We decided to buy a European vintage
trailer from. Even though the one we
have is from 1970, we decided to give the
interior an old American look, and chose
as the theme the old 1950s American
diners”.
Dirk chose to seal in two of the side
windows with sheet metal and completely
gut out the inside and rebuild it using red
1950s Formica with chrome sheet metal
details and stainless steel rivets that they
also used to trim the bottom half of the
lounge seats. The upholstery was re-done
in red and white tuck and roll vinyl by a
vintagetrailermagazine | 41