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Re: Camping!! Cars & trailers
« Reply #175 on: September 23, 2016, 06:55:16 AM »
Like a lot of 'car' words that have different meanings in the US and UK (e.g. hood, which of course means the thing covering the engine at the front in the US but the thing you pull up in a convertible in the UK when it starts raining - or, more likely, the thing you drop down if/when it stops raining!) 'trailer' means something very different, although of course it's always something pulled behind the car.

The Americans call what we call a 'caravan' a trailer; what we in the UK call a trailer is pictured below (I'm not sure what the Americans call it?).
So that Vale is in fact towing a caravan not a trailer, just as it says in the caption!

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Re: Camping!! Cars & trailers
« Reply #176 on: September 26, 2016, 03:56:29 AM »
Aston Martin RHAM-1 Speed Record towing a Caravan  201 kmh (124,91 mph) 14 October 1980

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Re: Camping!! Cars & trailers
« Reply #177 on: August 31, 2017, 03:13:26 AM »
Of a similar theme
You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

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Re: Camping!! Cars & trailers
« Reply #178 on: August 31, 2017, 03:49:26 AM »
Two Eifellands:

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Re: Camping!! Cars & trailers
« Reply #179 on: August 31, 2017, 04:14:55 AM »
Brabham BT23C, but I suppose you all knew that anyway!
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: Camping!! Cars & trailers
« Reply #180 on: September 01, 2017, 08:05:15 AM »
more pictures
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Re: Camping!! Cars & trailers
« Reply #181 on: September 01, 2017, 08:06:01 AM »
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Re: Camping!! Cars & trailers
« Reply #182 on: September 01, 2017, 08:07:07 AM »
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Re: Camping!! Cars & trailers
« Reply #183 on: October 28, 2017, 10:02:30 AM »
Early caravaning with a Mercedes-Benz Nürburg:

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Re: Camping!! Cars & trailers
« Reply #184 on: October 29, 2017, 05:28:59 AM »
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Re: Camping!! Cars & trailers
« Reply #185 on: May 06, 2020, 05:52:45 AM »
Golf:
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Re: Camping!! Cars & trailers
« Reply #186 on: May 06, 2020, 10:34:04 AM »
by Bischofberger - good one!

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Re: Camping!! Cars & trailers
« Reply #187 on: August 29, 2021, 09:29:11 AM »
One of those extreme telescopic Louvet caravans - here in use for Air France: