Mini Caravans
 

Went to a classic steam fair couple of months ago and got talking to the people at Retro Trailers.

It stirred something in me and ever since I've been looking at trailers and mentally designing my own style of mini caravan.

I've still got a long way to go before I start building it. I need a trailer, finish off my other projects and convince the wife to let me build the workshop/garage with hard standing at the bottom of the garden.
But in the mean time I can read up and do some research mini caravans.

With such an eclectic bunch of people on this site I thought I would see if anyone has built their own trailer or caravan before or even own a mini caravan?

I saw this one in Greece the other week:

Sod that, what you need is one of these

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/73...fe7235232f.jpg

I do like the teardrop trailers, prefer the plywood ones though as they are more organic and warm looking and selfbuild friendly.

Some nice ideas on this thing too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXDbXOQwk4

heres a mates chevy + trailer van :D

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...8&d=1411558062

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...9&d=1411558062

Teardrop trailers are great.

Haha, I can't really see that doing very good MPG to Italy lol

I would not want to do an ally one.
Looking more in to the tear drop ones, the bending of the wood is a lot of effort and can fail, I'm tempted to not go for curved. Rather go for something that's square cause its easier to build.

The UEV-440. Been looking at their videos and I've changed my Design a couple of times because of them.

I like the pull out kitchen but the runners, pipe and cables could make it complicated for me so I'm tempted to stick with the rear kitchen like the tear drops.

That is lovely.

What engine has he got?

You can buy a lot of hotel rooms for the price of one of those trailers :D

This is something I've toyed with doing as well. I've got absolutely no need for one but just fancied another project.

There's some good stuff in this thread pinched from another forum I'm on:

http://www.rodsnsods.co.uk/forum/garage/teardop-201745

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1411569940

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Holy thread bump Batman.

Good to my word, I did indeed build a miniature caravan which I finished a few years ago. I still have it and use it and I posted a full build thread here:

https://www.rhocar.org/index.php?/fo...ct-rhocaravan/