I really gotta visit someday. I think it'd be awesome to take a road trip from Oregon to Indiana in my 1973 Titan motorhome. I'd probably end up spending $2000 in gas though.
It is obvious that this man is quite passionate to his endeavor. He almost cried upon mentioning the death of the industry. I say good luck to them, it is sad that the current social climate has been very detrimental to almost all recreational activities.
I just heard about this museum on a Podcast last night and was thrilled to watch your video. I saw The Long, Long Trailer and was thrilled to see it here! Thanks for sharing with us :)
This is a really cool video! I would love to visit the RV Hall of Fame next time we are in Indiana! Just one small notation. At 8:24, mention was made of the 1954 Spartan being identical to the mobile home featured in the movie "The Long, Long, Trailer". While similar, the trailer featured in the 1953 movie was a 1953, New Moon. As a past "trailerite" myself, The Long, Long Trailer is one of my favorite movies. Thanks for the great tour!
The oldest motorhome in the world is going up for Auction on the 10th of this month, in England. It NEEDS to be in your collection! Please look into this! Check out the Bonhams auction site.
I have a Datsun 720 Granville class c, it says on the dash it's from elkhart, I have no other information to go off of as I assume the company did not make it to the rise of the internet, but this video gives me a taste of the town that made it happen can not wait to visit!
when I was young we lived in a trailer for 3 yrs. as my dad chased teaching jobs to CA. we lived in 3 states in 3 yrs the trailer was 1947 ?. It was green and had a jack knife bed/couch where my sister and I slept
Why didn't you put a link in the discription to the RV hall of Fame ? On a side note their admission price is too hefty, Adults - $12 Children (6-16) - $9 I feel like it is at least double what it should be.
Sure is a shame that the industry produces nothing but junk, among the worst is Keystone. There won't be any trailers of todays vintage to put in the museum as they will all be piles of garbage. It's a shame, I work on them all, lots of work to be had on the new stuff as it's one piece of junk after another. Give me an old Alpenlite, NuWa any day over anything they roll out of the junk factories in Elkhart, shame on them for ripping the consumer off while the fat cats live high on the hog. So many sad stories of people throwing their money away on this junk.
Wondering if the rest got built being that the rv industry has came back something like 600 percent in like two years!!! People during this pandemic have done nothing but buy new cars and rv’s so the industry must be making a hell of a comeback! Either way Elkhart will always be a slum ghetto! Trailer manufacturing pays shit so everyone in Elkhart is basically broke all the time ! Even when the industry is thriving! Only people that make out are them goofs on the wall he was showing you ! And the only way this museum will turn a profit is if is rally sight becomes a campground because there’s not many in that area and the campgrounds that are there are horrible! So I’ll give this guy some advice open a nice campground and make your museum free for guests then you’ll make money!
I'm sorry to say this but that man is either senile or really does not know RV's!! He mixed up many dates and names..plus the biggest mistake was the trailer from the movie The Long Long Trailer..It was not like the Spartan Manor he showed..it was a New Moon made by Redman homes..and YELLOW!!...It looked nothing like this one! The Travco out front was not a 1985!!!..more like 1976...I had to laugh when he said that many women were buying the vintage GMC motorhomes now!! Then he started to call the 67 Winnebago a 1985!! Poor guy..either going crazy or he's really just another RV salesman who thinks he knows the models but really does not...I will give it to him that he seemed to be more up on the 1930's models but from 60's on forget it..he had no clue..
Public comments... If your looking for facts in RUclips comments you're looking in the wrong place... I try not rubbing salt in someone's wound... I correct things like the silver coin test on mushrooms to see if they're edible... Coin turns brown DOES mean it's poisonous but many mushrooms are poisonous that will NOT turn the coin brown!! They will end up KILLING their children believing they tested those mushrooms before they fed their children... Fake facts when living in the wilderness is worse than no knowledge... But these facts aren't important to correct... Who invented the wheel? Italians invent pasta or did the Chinese have it first? Does it matter?
I really gotta visit someday. I think it'd be awesome to take a road trip from Oregon to Indiana in my 1973 Titan motorhome. I'd probably end up spending $2000 in gas though.
Love to check this place out
another video i found by mistake i found out i am roughly 100 miles from there will take a road trip there this summer
I’m a lifelong Hoosier. Great place
It is obvious that this man is quite passionate to his endeavor.
He almost cried upon mentioning the death of the industry.
I say good luck to them, it is sad that the current social climate has been very detrimental to almost all recreational activities.
Quite impressive collection of RV and trailer.
I’ve seen a lot of auto museums, this is the first of this kind I’ve even heard of.
Very interesting.
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I just heard about this museum on a Podcast last night and was thrilled to watch your video. I saw The Long, Long Trailer and was thrilled to see it here! Thanks for sharing with us :)
Love it! Ima full-time Urban RVer off the grid ghost going his own way. Never been more content ☺
This is a really cool video! I would love to visit the RV Hall of Fame next time we are in Indiana! Just one small notation. At 8:24, mention was made of the 1954 Spartan being identical to the mobile home featured in the movie "The Long, Long, Trailer". While similar, the trailer featured in the 1953 movie was a 1953, New Moon. As a past "trailerite" myself, The Long, Long Trailer is one of my favorite movies. Thanks for the great tour!
The oldest motorhome in the world is going up for Auction on the 10th of this month, in England. It NEEDS to be in your collection! Please look into this! Check out the Bonhams auction site.
Thanks for sharing! All of the extras were great, I hope they build to their full potential.
My grandpa started Prairie Schooner in the thirties and his factory burned down in '37. He made trailers just like a couple of them in the museum.
Would have liked to have seen more of each trailer.
Hello there Elkhart Indiana is my hometown
What's the best bar for Blue Collar Gotta Go To Work type of people?
I have a Datsun 720 Granville class c, it says on the dash it's from elkhart, I have no other information to go off of as I assume the company did not make it to the rise of the internet, but this video gives me a taste of the town that made it happen can not wait to visit!
when I was young we lived in a trailer for 3 yrs. as my dad chased teaching jobs to CA. we lived in 3 states in 3 yrs the trailer was 1947 ?. It was green and had a jack knife bed/couch where my sister and I slept
My Dad used to say- and my mom got really mad--- "May West half undressed... Come over sometime and see the rest!!"
Nice!
Great museum, worth the visit
The trailer that was in The Long Long Trailer was a New Moon not a Spartan.
Rock on!
is there camper parking at this museum
Why didn't you put a link in the discription to the RV hall of Fame ?
On a side note their admission price is too hefty, Adults - $12
Children (6-16) - $9
I feel like it is at least double what it should be.
That's a fair price
Sounds fair. About the price of a movie but more memorable
The poor guy is in debt go easy
Sure is a shame that the industry produces nothing but junk, among the worst is Keystone. There won't be any trailers of todays vintage to put in the museum as they will all be piles of garbage. It's a shame, I work on them all, lots of work to be had on the new stuff as it's one piece of junk after another. Give me an old Alpenlite, NuWa any day over anything they roll out of the junk factories in Elkhart, shame on them for ripping the consumer off while the fat cats live high on the hog. So many sad stories of people throwing their money away on this junk.
Wondering if the rest got built being that the rv industry has came back something like 600 percent in like two years!!! People during this pandemic have done nothing but buy new cars and rv’s so the industry must be making a hell of a comeback! Either way Elkhart will always be a slum ghetto! Trailer manufacturing pays shit so everyone in Elkhart is basically broke all the time ! Even when the industry is thriving! Only people that make out are them goofs on the wall he was showing you ! And the only way this museum will turn a profit is if is rally sight becomes a campground because there’s not many in that area and the campgrounds that are there are horrible! So I’ll give this guy some advice open a nice campground and make your museum free for guests then you’ll make money!
I'm sorry to say this but that man is either senile or really does not know RV's!! He mixed up many dates and names..plus the biggest mistake was the trailer from the movie The Long Long Trailer..It was not like the Spartan Manor he showed..it was a New Moon made by Redman homes..and YELLOW!!...It looked nothing like this one! The Travco out front was not a 1985!!!..more like 1976...I had to laugh when he said that many women were buying the vintage GMC motorhomes now!! Then he started to call the 67 Winnebago a 1985!! Poor guy..either going crazy or he's really just another RV salesman who thinks he knows the models but really does not...I will give it to him that he seemed to be more up on the 1930's models but from 60's on forget it..he had no clue..
Public comments... If your looking for facts in RUclips comments you're looking in the wrong place... I try not rubbing salt in someone's wound... I correct things like the silver coin test on mushrooms to see if they're edible... Coin turns brown DOES mean it's poisonous but many mushrooms are poisonous that will NOT turn the coin brown!! They will end up KILLING their children believing they tested those mushrooms before they fed their children... Fake facts when living in the wilderness is worse than no knowledge... But these facts aren't important to correct... Who invented the wheel? Italians invent pasta or did the Chinese have it first? Does it matter?
Still very interesting tour......