[T and C]

When I was growing up back in the early 1950's, my parents had a couple of friends who had a teardrop. Several families frequently went camping together, and the teardrop's kitchen area was sort of the center around which everyone socialized.

A little later we lived near a gas station that had several of these for rent. They never locked them so the neighborhood kids horsed around in them at times.

I think these things originated back in the depression era. They published plans for them in Popular Mechanics and other mags, and you could make them on running gear from the junk yard. I remember that my folk's friend's teardrop had wire wheels off some early Ford.

Nowadays there is a revival of interest. Probably the same economics that are moving TM towards lighter models. Some of them are pretty snazzy.
I once saw a large one on TV that had a screen door in the kitchen area. You could actually step inside.

Tom