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- 1959 Volkswagen Westfalia Camper - Volkswagen introduced its "box on wheels," the VW Type 2 Bus, in 1949. A few years later, VW contracted with Westfalia and introduced converted campers. First exported to the U.S. in 1956, Westfalia campers provided home-like camping comfort and created a postwar recreational-vehicle lifestyle. This soon-to-be cultural icon transported Americans down highways and byways and into the great outdoors.
- 1959
- Collections - Artifact
1959 Volkswagen Westfalia Camper
Volkswagen introduced its "box on wheels," the VW Type 2 Bus, in 1949. A few years later, VW contracted with Westfalia and introduced converted campers. First exported to the U.S. in 1956, Westfalia campers provided home-like camping comfort and created a postwar recreational-vehicle lifestyle. This soon-to-be cultural icon transported Americans down highways and byways and into the great outdoors.
- Movie Poster, "RV," 2006 - We all have stories about family vacations. And from time to time Hollywood has turned these travails into motion picture comedy. The 2006 film, <em>RV</em> starring Robin Williams, is a comic retelling of family vacations seemingly gone bad.
- 2006
- Collections - Artifact
Movie Poster, "RV," 2006
We all have stories about family vacations. And from time to time Hollywood has turned these travails into motion picture comedy. The 2006 film, RV starring Robin Williams, is a comic retelling of family vacations seemingly gone bad.
- Graham Brothers "Nomad" Motor Home, 1923 - The motorhome concept is nearly as old as the automobile, but the earliest forms were aftermarket conversions rather than factory products. This Nomad's body originally sat on a Ford Model TT chassis. It was remounted on a Graham Brothers truck chassis in 1928. Novelists John Stanton and Mary Chapman owned the Nomad for 47 years and visited 24 states with it.
- 1928
- Collections - Artifact
Graham Brothers "Nomad" Motor Home, 1923
The motorhome concept is nearly as old as the automobile, but the earliest forms were aftermarket conversions rather than factory products. This Nomad's body originally sat on a Ford Model TT chassis. It was remounted on a Graham Brothers truck chassis in 1928. Novelists John Stanton and Mary Chapman owned the Nomad for 47 years and visited 24 states with it.