Date:         Thu, 19 Jun 2014 07:24:44 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Westrailia update
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com>
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"I have seen a few of the Ladybug trailers around  So Cal and Baja.  Nice."

Interesting. I've never seen another in all the years I lived in coastal
SoCal. I always fancied that the company stayed in business only long
enough to make just one -- the prototype -- which is in my possession.

Seems like there would be a market for such a trailer. The frame is not
tough to build, the leaf springs, bearings, and axle are off-the-shelf
parts, same for the wheels and the tires (they are beefy for a small
trailer, being ST175/80D13); but I have no idea how to make the molds
for the fiberglass body parts: fenders, lower tub, upper lid, nor
anything at all about how to make the body parts once the molds are in hand.

--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.

On 06/19/2014 05:48 AM, Don Hanson wrote:
> I have seen a few of the Ladybug trailers around  So Cal and Baja.  Nice
>