{"id":1678,"date":"2013-05-11T11:15:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T18:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickdebruhl.com\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2013-05-13T18:21:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T01:21:31","slug":"fun-video-this-camper-could-have-changed-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"Fun Video: This Camper Could Have Changed My LIfe"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was growing up, my family was stuck on VWs.<\/p>\n

\"VW<\/a>
VW evolution ad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had a 57, a 61, 67, 68, 69, 71, 73, and a 75 in various forms. The Beetles were primarily my dad’s work car. After delivering milk from his Divco in the morning, he would use the Beetle to deliver newspapers every afternoon in Bel Air, California. He’d take the front passenger seat out and load it up with newspapers. Then he’d drive through Bel Air throwing them out both side windows and the sunroof, all while braking, shifting and driving! He was obviously a great multi-tasker and had a killer arm (take one look at the typical Bel Air front yard and you’ll know why\u00a0 he needed it).<\/p>\n

Of course\u00a0his\u00a0Beetle also\u00a0was a family car as well. There were times when we crammed at least five\u00a0(maybe 6?)\u00a0of our seven family\u00a0members\u00a0in and drove somewhere on a\u00a0Sunday morning. About the time I went off to college, my parents discovered camping.\u00a0I still remember watching\u00a0them drive off to that first camp-out with my\u00a0younger brother and sister on board.\u00a0My diad had tied a roof rack to the top and the\u00a0Beetle was so laden that the rear wheels cambered out. They liked it so much they eventually bought a bigger car and a tent\u00a0trailer to take to their favorite spot at Leo Carillo State Park, just up the road from Malibu.<\/p>\n

\"VW<\/a>
VW 5th Wheel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My son\u00a0spotted a video this week that could have changed their life. It shows a tow bar mounted on the top of the Beetle with a specially shaped camper trailer designed to go over the back of the VW’s shape. A classic fifth wheel trailer.<\/p>\n

You can watch the video here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Who knows what might have happened if my dad had found this camping creature? They might have had room for me on that first trip! (Of course I would have had to skip going off to college…)<\/p>\n<\/fb:like><\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When I was growing up, my family was stuck on VWs. We had a 57, a 61, 67, 68, 69, 71, 73, and \n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misccarthoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27JFw-r4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcentrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}