Vintage Caravan Magazine Issue 38 | Page 23

ebago as the car and trailer and I wondered how they had brought all of that stuff with them! Ken and Hazie travel everywhere with their two Maltese Poodle mix dogs; a black one named Panda bear and a white one called “Winnie Poo” in the trailer they have named “The Original Minnie Winnie”. Ken is the third generation of his family to work in the lighting fixtures business and recalls many a family camping trip in trailers that were not known as “vintage” back then. “I grew up camping with my parents and grandparents in a 1940 teardrop trailer, a Shasta, and an Airstream trailer. We still have the original camp cupboard my dad made in the 1950’s, so I am not new to camping”. Ken goes on to tell me that the reason they got into vintage trailers was because they went to a lot of car shows with their 1956 Chevrolet 210 wagon and enjoyed the camaraderie of folks who also like to restore and show cars. “My buddy who has done car shows all his life restored a 1969 Winnebago trailer and color matched it to his 1950 vintagetrailermagazine | 21