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01-13-2015, 07:09 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Ramona (San Diego County)
Posts: 178
M.O.C. #15919
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What was your 1st camper?
Mine was a 1971 VW camper van. We only had one daughter at the time. But I think I made 3 more daughters from that van. LOL
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01-13-2015, 07:14 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Parker
Posts: 283
M.O.C. #15881
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sturey popup camper back in 1982.
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01-13-2015, 07:25 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Arroyo City
Posts: 3,110
M.O.C. #13395
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Plywood box on back of pickup
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01-13-2015, 07:41 AM
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Site Team
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Omaha
Posts: 6,795
M.O.C. #7560
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Camper shell over the pickup bed with plywood platform in bed and 2"foam pad over the plywood and sleeping bags. Charcoal grill, cooler and other supplies under the platform. Slide rear window open if we needed A/C but seldom used it! Then camp the pop-up camper that kept loosing the wheels and breaking rising cables. Then a 2004 Montana 2980 and now the 2013 3582! Quite a difference between the pickup to the 3582!
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01-13-2015, 08:05 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Winfield
Posts: 7,327
M.O.C. #6846
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2004 Puma 30 ft. with one slide. Bumper pull TT. Then on to the Montana's. Prior to the Puma were many years of tent camping!
Bingo
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Bingo and Cathy - Our adventures begin in the hills of WV. We are blessed by our 2014 3850FL Big Sky (previous 2011 3750FL and 2007 3400RL) that we pull with a 2007 Chevy Silverado Classic DRW CC dually.
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01-13-2015, 08:44 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: McKinney
Posts: 7,363
M.O.C. #6433
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Cots under the stars beside any creek we could find that might have fish in it from the time I was so young I can't remember when we did not. Not even a tent.
Actually my first is the one we have. Grew up camping in the truest sense. Finally got a tent when I was a teenager. Tent camped some in my early 20's. Borrowed a PUP once in early married life with two small kids. That sort of tweeked the interest. But then pretty much abandoned it until we bought the '07 Monte new.
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Bill & Patricia
Riley, our Golden
2007 3075RL (recently sold, currently without)
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01-13-2015, 08:45 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Edgewood
Posts: 184
M.O.C. #14397
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We bought a used 1968 16-foot Chinook trailer in 1969. Towed it all over the West Coast for about five years.
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01-13-2015, 08:55 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Englewood
Posts: 3,095
M.O.C. #164
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1980 Krown Tent Camper towed by 1986 Chevy 6 Ft Step Side first and last 2 Wheel Drive
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01-13-2015, 09:05 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Milton
Posts: 275
M.O.C. #14116
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A renovated school bus tha my uncle sold to my dad in 1970. The first year we went from Boston to the Grand Canyon and back in two weeks. The only complaint my siblings and I had was that it was still school bus yellow. The next summer dad had spray painted it light metallic blue on the bottom half and white on the top half. We went out west for another two weeks and had a ball!
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01-13-2015, 09:29 AM
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Site Team
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Wilsey
Posts: 18,799
M.O.C. #11455
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Camped with and without a tent until I rigged a 1968 Ford pickup with two of the old summer camp bunk bed wire spring sets with summer camp mattresses. Storage underneath, sleep on top. Had some great times in that truck. Probably couldn't bend enough to get in it now.
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Dick, Joyce, Diego, Picatso and Gustav
2017 3720 RL, and 2013 HC 343RL
Pullrite Hitch, IS, Disk Brakes, 3rd AC, Winegard Traveler, Bathroom door mod, Dometic 320, couch for desk swap, replaced chairs, sun screens, added awnings, etc.
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01-13-2015, 10:56 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Goshen
Posts: 1,058
M.O.C. #2827
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Sleeping bags right on the ground in late 50's and early 60's. Had a tent but, that was mom and dad's! Us 3 boys were happier than tick on a hound dog! Then, life was happening and Gail and I bought our first RV in May of 2004. A 28 foot Outback. We were in tall cotton!!
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01-13-2015, 11:19 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Washington Coast
Posts: 2,688
M.O.C. #10696
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1975 AMC Pacer,that thing with the seats folded down and the wide fishbowl shape was perfect me and my girlfriend and a half rack of cheap brewsky between us
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01-13-2015, 11:21 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Bridgewater
Posts: 1,196
M.O.C. #13166
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I grew up with my folks renting pop-ups for a few years. Dad finally bought a bran new Nimrod Seventy pop-up and we took it out to the west coast and back, seeing most of the sights in between. I was 15 then and didn't get much out of it, save for checking out the girls that were unfortunate enough to be camping with their parents also. Many years of tenting on my own followed. I bought my first camper, a 1998 Coleman Mesa pop-up in '98 after my daughter was born.
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2010 Montana 3455SA, Mor/Ryde pin, wet bolts, TST 507, Progressive HW50C, GY G614
2019 Silverado D/A 3500HD LTZ DRW CC
B&W Companion
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01-13-2015, 11:45 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Fayetteville
Posts: 657
M.O.C. #9178
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A used Cox pop-up with a full canvas top. Got it back in the 80s. Then two more pop-ups followed by three 5ers.
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01-13-2015, 11:49 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Salem
Posts: 7,671
M.O.C. #2283
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My brothers Galaxy 6 Starcraft 1972 model. We still have it. It has always been kept inside and is still like new. The first one I bought was a 24 foot 5 er.
Lynwood
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01-13-2015, 12:22 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: North Ridgeville
Posts: 20,229
M.O.C. #2839
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First thing that was not a tent was a 1980 Colman Pop up bare bones had some great times in that thing.
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01-13-2015, 12:30 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Depends on temps
Posts: 1,648
M.O.C. #13157
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Camping with the folks in a Army tent in the 50's. Then better tents in the 60's. Got married and had a '72 Chevy 3/4T with a ElDorado slide in camper. All over the west with it.
First 5th in early 90's and as they say, the rest is history.
Jim
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2012 Ram Laramie 3500 DRW 4x4 3.73 Tow Max Pkg B&W Companion 60 gal RDS aux fuel tank. 2014 Montana 3150RL, 2 A/C's, Leather, 6 Point Jacks, Splendede WD2100XC, Mor/ryde X-Factor, Duravis 250 tires with TST 507RV monitors. 2 x Honda EU2000's
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01-13-2015, 02:04 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Frostproof, FL USA
Posts: 2,362
M.O.C. #13272
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With 6 kids we had to go with the big tent and of course our station wagon. Would have love to have a TT but couldn't afford it.
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Previous: 2008 Montana 3400RL & 2014 3725RL
Current: Full Time 2022 SOB TT Toy Hauler
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01-13-2015, 02:59 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Brandon
Posts: 3,944
M.O.C. #1034
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74 GMC cargo van converted with insulation and paneling, bed across the back and lots of shag carpet, so cool it was.
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Darwin & Maureen DeBackere
Minnedosa, Manitoba, Canada
2011/3500/Silverado/4x4/DRW/Duramax
2017/3721RL/Legacy Pkg./Pressure-Pro
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01-13-2015, 03:17 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Mt Home
Posts: 163
M.O.C. #15851
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1974 apache mesa by coleman
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