Mobile homes often look blockish and sterile , but these wooden mansion look like gingerbread Victorian home on bike . check out out how mass have hammered and saw their own homes onto cars .
A rolling home from France In The Year 2000
A theme carte from the seriesEn L’An 2000(In The Year 2000 , but also know as France In The Year 2000 ) , made by Jean - Marc Côté and other Gallic creative person , issued in 1899 , 1900 , 1901 and 1910 . The other postcards and composition cards from cigarette and cigar boxes are available onthis Wikimedia Commons page . There are at least 87 of them .
https://gizmodo.com/visions-of-the-year-2000-by-20th-century-french-artist-5935490
Neverwas Haul, 2006
This 24 feet farsighted by 24 feet mellow and 12 feet across-the-board steampunk sign of the zodiac on wheels was built by built by members of the Academy of Unnatural Sciences in 2006 for Burning Man Festival . Made from 75 % recycled materials . More steampunk homes and businessescan be see here .
https://gizmodo.com/grand-steampunk-homes-and-businesses-straight-from-the-476668111
( viaFlickr / Scott Beale – Laughing Squid )
The superb bus of Ray Conklin, president of the New York Motorbus Company in 1915
A party of twelve with Conklin travelled in this from Long Island to the Panama - Pacific Exposition in San Francisco . The bus had a kitchen , bed , inhuman and hot water , bookshelves and a rooftop garden .
( viaJust A Car Guy )
A fancy homebuilt motorhome, built on a Ford Model TT truck chassis in Ohio, 1924
( viaThe Old Motor )
A cute German country house on wheels in 1922
( viaMTFCA )
W. M. O’Donnell and his family in their “bungalow auto”, 1926
( viaLibrary of Congress 1–2 )
Dr. A. A. Foster and his family in an auto tourist camp, c. 1920
( viaShorpy )
A Ford Model T from the early 1920s
( viaReddit )
The homebuilt car of Charles Miller with a nice bit of lawn, Modern Mechanix, February 1930
( viaModern MechanixandThe Old Motor )
1931 Ford Model A Traveler
( viaFord Of West Memphis )
The Burn Family (June and Farrar) and their moving house
After their man and wife , the novelist and journalist June and her husband start to travel around the United States until June ’s dying in 1969 . In 1941 she publishedLiving High : An Unconventional Autobiography , which has been republish several time .
Comfortable Cottage Touring Car that Sheltered Family of Four on Cross-Country Run, based on a Ford T Model
On a Ford TT chassis
( viaellenm1 )
Gospel Car No. 1, built by William Downer in Glassboro, New Jersey, late 1910s
“ apart from a kitchenette , run piss and electric Light , the motorhome also boasted a pop out - up pulpit and electric organ . The Downers began their transversal - country trek in November 1919 , stopped in Washington D.C. in 1920 , where these photos were consider , and planned a five - year around - the - country stumble with a 2nd gospel car to depart in August 1920 . No word whether they in reality built Gospel Car No . 2 or made that later trip . ”
( viaLibrary of Congress 1–2,ShorpyandSouth Jersey Explorer )
1970s
( viaFrom Moon To Moon )
Here are more unusual homebuilt motorhomes from the US…
( viaRobmorgandAmy Merrick )
…but the people of New Zealand could create the strangest and cutest ones:
Bonus: A traveling minister with a tiny church car, with a tiny organ inside and a foldable rooftop steeple
( viaNew York Times )
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