Seen at the RV/MH Hall of Fame. This 1931 Chevrolet Housecar was offered as one of the enticements by Paramount Studios to get Mae West to leave the Vaudeville Circuit and begin to make movies for them. It was designed as a chauffeur-driven lounge car and not a "camper" unit. The RV/MH Hall of Fame is a museum in Elkhart, Indiana that features a variety of historical recreational vehicles from Airstream, Winnebago and other American makers. Founded in 1972 as the Recreational Vehicle/Manufactured Housing Heritage Foundation, the museum opened in 1991 and in 2007, moved into its current location. The foundation is a non-profit organization. The primary building, Founders Hall, is complete with artificial trees and other plants to create a simulated RV campground. The museum features a variety of recreation vehicles dating back 100 years and continuing through the 1980s. The oldest vehicle on display is a 1913 Earl Travel Trailer and is the oldest surviving specimen known. The oldest Winnebago and the smallest Airstream ever built are also to be found in the museum.—Wikipedia
Seen at the RV/MH Hall of Fame. The Bowlus Road Chief is an American luxury travel trailer with a front door, aerodynamic shape and polished aluminum body. Hawley Bowlus designed and built the Road Chief using his knowledge of aircraft construction. Bowlus was a designer, aerospace engineer and the builder of the Spirit of St. Louis aircraft. Aspects of the design were used on the first aluminum-body Airstream trailers, the Airstream Clipper. From 1934 to 1936, over eighty Bowlus Road Chiefs were built but Bowlus stopped producing the trailers in 1936. Production of a modernized enlarged Road Chief resumed in 2013 in Oxnard, California. Approximately half of the original Bowlus Road Chiefs have survived and a vintage Bowlus Road Chief sold for $187,000 at auction. The RV/MH Hall of Fame is a museum in Elkhart, Indiana that features a variety of historical recreational vehicles from Airstream, Winnebago and other American makers. Founded in 1972 as the Recreational Vehicle/Manufactured Housing Heritage Foundation, the museum opened in 1991 and in 2007, moved into its current location. The foundation is a non-profit organization. The primary building, Founders Hall, is complete with artificial trees and other plants to create a simulated RV campground. The museum features a variety of recreation vehicles dating back 100 years and continuing through the 1980s. The oldest vehicle on display is a 1913 Earl Travel Trailer and is the oldest surviving specimen known. The oldest Winnebago and the smallest Airstream ever built are also to be found in the museum.—Wikipedia
