Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:06:53 -0600
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Is it a car or a camper?
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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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