Inspiring Individuality
Other Caravan Builders
If you have built a caravan and would like to show it here, please get in touch!
Works in Progress:
Catherine:
Started July 2007 on a buggy frame......
this will become a Screened-In Chaise Longue to follow the sun and the breeze on Catherine's country property
Kent:
Summer 2008: From this humble beginning......
......will rise The Majestic!
Watch it being built this summer!
June 30: My first
lesson................on these old running gear the lug nuts on one side
were sometimes reverse threaded. As a mechanical novice I initially
sailed through removing the wheels marveling at how easy it was to
accomplish this on 50 year old equipment which had lived outdoors its
entire life. Then, wham.....along came the nuts that wouldn't budge no
matter what I did. A huge dose of WD40 had no impact, a blow torch
wouldn't loosen them, and finally the desperate act of driving them off
with the bite from a cold chisel would have to work; but no. Late that
night I thought to ask an old country-boy friend who had the advantage
of a practical on-the-farm education. Sure enough, I had been blind.
Be alert for an L on bolt ends. These are not threaded the way god
intended.
Completed Caravans:
Rae:
In the fall of 2005, Rae came to the farm to build a new caravan to replace one she'd made several years earlier for her SCA character. She tells the story of building her caravans on her website:
Rae's First Wagon Rae's New Vardo Rae's Bowtop
Check Rae's Links for many more amazing caravans.
Kevin:
Have a look at this awesome new life for a classic 1938 truck!
Related Links:
Blue Moon Gypsies:
Susan at Providence Acres has compiled an amazing list of links to all things gypsy! Her main focus is horses, but she has links to so much else! Blue Moon Gypsies
Gypsy Jib:
Here's a Romany Dictionary published in England in 2003 by James Hayward. I enjoyed his family history and really appreciated all James' photographs, short anecdotes and explanations scattered throughout the book.
International Museum of Carousel Art:
Hood River, Oregon www.carouselmuseum.com
Circus World Museum: Baraboo, Wisconsin www.wisconsinhistory.org/circusworld/
(416) 489-1917 or daphne@daphnescaravans.com