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Date:         Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:06:53 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Is it a car or a camper?
Comments: To: Al Knoll <anasasi@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <9f4608e91001201742j6048b696ib881e2da812751de@mail.gmail.com>
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Taint. Al, when I go back to that campground I'll be sure to take a printout of this with me : )

It defines what a house-car is, and refers to the fact that it is different from a camper, but does not define a camper.

Jim

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Al Knoll <anasasi@gmail.com> wrote: > Here in the formerly golden state of confusion possibly caused by Bent > Finances, previously referred to as CaliFUNia, 'taint either: > > ‘‘A ‘house car’ is a motor vehicle originally designed, or > > permanently altered, and equipped for human habitation, or > > to which a camper has been permanently attached. A motor > > vehicle to which a camper has been temporarily attached is > > not a house car except that, for the purposes of Division 11 > > (commencing with Section 21000) and Division 12 > > (commencing with Section 24000), (CA Veh. Code) > > It's rather like a taint.  Taint car, taint camper. > > Pensionerd.  Proud, impoverished, owner of 1Br 1Ba Studio w/ kitchen 4wd > HouseCar. > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I didn't want to totally hijack a related "campmobile" thread but I >> just have to mention this: >> >> I recently stayed in a state park where the young guy at the gate >> asked if I had a cloth tent pitch on the site to "get around the new >> rules." >> >> I asked what the new rules were and was told that you can't sleep in >> your car! The new rules say that you have to pitch a tent to sleep in >> if you are not in a camper. I told the guy that my camper was every >> bit as much a camper as the big rigs down on the other end, that my >> camper came from the factory with the express purpose of being a >> camper. He said that "things had gotten kinda crazy around there in >> order to keep people from sleeping in their cars." >> >> I didn't get bothered about it, but the park director (who I had a >> meeting with the next day) asked if I was the person who had slept in >> his car last night. I replied that I slept in my camper, which was >> equipped for camping, and she dropped it. >> >> Jim > >


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