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Unique Vintage Motor Homes; Riding In Style

Mobile homes a great way to achieve the American dream of owning your own home. When someone decides to start ridding themselves of debt, reducing their budgets, living a more simple life and traveling around seeing the country, mobile homes are a perfect choice, especially like these unique vintage motor homes with motors attached.

In a previous post History of Mobile Homes, I wrote about the invention of mobile home design and innovation. In this post, we are taking a look at the drivable mobile homes. The artistry, the compact and still spacious designs can teach us about organization and how to live with less. There are several books about mobile homes, or rolling homes, as some call them. They have international fan clubs because they are so popular and yet, so rare. I’m not talking about the sleek, modern RV’s that we see on the interstates. I am talking about purely homemade, unique and beautiful modes of transportation that can be traveled and lived in.

Awesome Books About Unique Vintage Motor Homes

There’s a couple books from the 70’s dedicated to the art of rolling homes. In Jane Lidz book “Rolling Homes” there are several homes to get inspired by. Each year more and more of these wonderful vehicles fall by the wayside, unable to comply with new laws set by the DMV. The norm is broken by these innovators. The rolling homeowners don’t live in standard homes, paying high taxes and trying to keep up with the Jones’, so they are called hippies, vagabonds and are unfairly stereotyped.

There should be an open acceptance of these drivable art pieces!

In the 1994 book “Home Free” by Fiona Cunningham with photos by Chris Boul, there are several beautiful rolling mobile homes. The book is about New Zealand housetrucking. In that beautiful country, there are groups of like-minded traveler’s. One group, in particular, is called Gypsy Faire, they travel around the country.

They are living the life!

Great Images We Found Online

Here are some more great interior and exterior shots of rolling homes. Some are older than the others but they are all unique and should be honored as art and as a simple and smart way to live.

For more great reading on unique vintage motor homes, please check out the blog “The Flying Tortoise.” That’s where I found a lot of the photos and overall information. The blog is from a writer in New Zealand that travels in their own rolling home. The photos are gorgeous and the writing is entertaining. It’s a great little read!

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