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Tin Can Tourists Celebrate 100 Years
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through RVBusiness' website.
Tin Can Tourist Camping Club, started in Tampa, FL, marks its 100th year this year in the memory of honoring vintage trailers and motorhomes and supporting the historical research and restoration of old RVs. The organization has evolved into a camping club honoring vintage trailers and motorhomes and supporting the historical research and restoration of old RVs. Forrest Bone is credited with resurrecting the group in 1998 after it went through a 14-year period of inactivity. Today, the Milford, Mich.-based group has a membership that stands 2,400 strong. According to the deep historical archives on TCT’s website, the group’s original objective was “to unite fraternally all auto campers.”
According to an RVBusiness article, the Tin Can Tourists also oversees a website at www.tincantourists.com that is posting all the celebrations of the centennial with a special logo touting “100 Years of Rolling History.” Camper owners can join the club for $20 per year. The site features members-only resources, an impressive number of original condition and restored vintage RVs for sale, vintage RV-friendly campgrounds to visit and rally information. In 2000, the group held its first get together in Florida as part of the Tampa RV Supershow. “The first Florida gathering was kind of disappointing with only 13 trailers showing up until I checked the membership in the state which was about 25 total,” said Bone. “Now this year we sold out with over 200 sites for our Centennial rally.”
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