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New The 1961 Vacation Household Geographic Is For Sale, For A 1/4 Million. Ane Of Ii Currently Known To Exist, The Trailer Was Designed Yesteryear Basis Renowned Industrial Engineer, Chuck Pelly, Designer Of The Scarab Race Automobile Together With Founder Of Designworks Usa, Which Is Bmw's California Studio.




David Holmes, President of "Harry together with David" fruit company, began producing the Holiday House locomote trailers inwards Nov of 1959, inwards Medford, Oregon. These were aluminum together with forest constructed trailers equally many of their counterparts of this era, however, the Holiday House trailers stood out equally distinctive due to their highly progressive together with futuristic design.

In 1958 Holmes enlisted Chuck Pelly to blueprint the Geographic model, also known equally Model X, equally a super express production model, which he dubbed the "Trailer For The Rich". The styling was dissimilar whatever trailer of it's time. There are stance to convey exclusively been parts of vii of these strikingly futuristic fiberglass trailers always made

Built inwards 1961, the Geographic trailer was touted at the fourth dimension equally "the lightest, strongest 24-foot mobile abode always seen," sheathed within together with out with fiberglass, together with "designed on aeronautic principles that borrow from the latest jet aircraft, satellite together with missile development.... It has forrad windows which allow 270 degrees visibility, together with was developed at a toll of $1 i chiliad one thousand inwards Van Nuys, California, past times skilled craftsmen from the aircraft together with missile components industry."

It has a total bathroom, ii double beds, a stainless steel kitchen with double sink, 4 pull-down gas burners, a fridge together with built-in heater together with air conditioner.

Fast Forward to 1999.

Bardy Azadmard, an architectural designer who specializes inwards luxury homes, never wanted a trailer, never fifty-fifty laid pes inwards i until 1999, spell driving to province he'd only bought inwards Leona Valley. That's when he spied an oddly shaped hulk amongst a dusty canyon road.

He needed a tool shed for the vii acres of raw province he was making into a ranch. "I was buying shovels, mowers, all that stuff. I thought, I'll purchase this onetime trailer, laid clean it upwards together with operate it instead of a shed. It's much to a greater extent than interesting to await at."

He had no stance that he was looking at what may hold upwards the showtime trailer built of fiberglass. And the exclusively trailer designed past times renowned industrial together with race machine designer Charles "Chuck" W. Pelly

He had no stance that the trailer's famous designer, Pelly, was hold upwards together with good -- together with living only a few miles away inwards Woodland Hills.

Reached past times phone, Pelly, a consultant for BMW, a catamaran designer together with a partner inwards Design Academy Inc. of Woodland Hills, laughed to take heed that the trailer he had designed was soundless around. "It's similar an onetime girl coming back," he said, when told of Azadmard's strange tale. "I only assumed they were all lost together with no to a greater extent than existed. This could hold upwards the exclusively i left, although I convey no idea."

Azadmard spent a decade restoring it with assist from Iowa Boys LLC together with Wayne Butters. After the trailer was completed, it toured to a greater extent than or less RV shows until it was sold to soul (in 2011) for a reported half dozen figure sum, together with it together with thus shipped to France. Until recently, it was stance to hold upwards the exclusively survivor.


Fast Forward to 2016


In 2016 to a greater extent than or less other i turned up. The possessor was storing machine parts inwards it together with was willing to entertain selling it. Justin Scribner of Flyte Camp flora out nearly it together with was able to brand a bargain with the previous owners together with trailered it dorsum to Flyte Camp inwards Bend, OR.

The restoration of the fiberglass trunk proved to hold upwards extremely difficult. The fiberglass had dark mold throughout that had to hold upwards removed. The ceiling was buckling together with had to hold upwards completely replaced. Once those repairs were made, getting the trailer to work upwards correctly was to a greater extent than or less other challenge.






https://www.vintagecampertrailers.com/blog/1961-holiday-house-geographic
http://www.flytecamp.com/vintage-trailer-sales/item/1961-holiday-house-geographic-model-x-2
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/oct/12/home/hm-trailer12
https://hiconsumption.com/2018/07/1961-holiday-house-geographic-model-x-trailer/

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