January/February Issue of Cool Tears & Tiny Campers

The latest issue of Cool Tears & Tiny Campers is out on the virtual newstands now. This issue includes a story on tiny trailers and Model A cars, an interview with Dylan DeHoff of Little Guy Worldwide and a feature story of a 1966 half-dead teardrop brought back to life by Randy Higgins.

TeardropShop.com

For big fans of the Little Guy Worldwide teardrop trailers and accessories, the company has a store where you can pick up everything you might need for your Little Guy or other manufactured teardrop trailer. The TeardropShop has teardrop trailer covers, shelters, screen rooms, camping gear, parts, portable toilets and even portable solar panels.

The TeardropShop also has daily deals with sale items that have been marked down. You can also pick up accessories for your T@B trailer like covers, visors, bike racks and and trailer tents. You can even get a teardrop trailer for your garden birds.

Teardrop Trailers on Makezine and Instructables

There are tons of teardrop trailer plans and schematics on the web, and because of the popularity of DIY, many of these home built trailers been showing up in Make Magazine and the handy step-by-step site, Instructables. 

While these types of sites don't take the place of a well drawn plan, they are a handy tool to see the process and final project. What's also great about these plans is that the trailers have already been built by the owners and they are sharing not only the visual steps they took to build the trailer, but also what issues they run into, how they purchase their supplies and any links they found to be helpful.

Here are a few teardrops that have been featured on Make Magazine and Instructables.

Make Magazine featured Werner Strama and his large, homemade trailer

 

This beautiful trailer was built for around $2,000.

This colorful, little trailer was built for only $500.


 

This Kuffel Creek Cubby-style trailer was built with no welding required.

Featured Teardrop Trailer: Treeline Teardrops

Whether you want to hit the road (or go off-road) with a teardrop trailer, the Treeline Teardrop Trailers company from Petaluma, California have a ton of sizes and options to choose from. These well-designed, sleek silver trailers are custom built with premium materials through the use of computer aided design, CNC routers and exclusively engineered components. But they still look like the vintage favorites complete with white wall tires.

The Treeline teardrops come in a ton of sizes including 4x8, 4x9, 4.5x9, 5x9, 5x10 and 5x11. The Rover, Sierra, Cal-Deluxe and tiny Buzz can all be taken on the road and the Buzz-Off and the Krawler are ready for some rougher, back roads. The off-road trailers have heavy-duty springs, electric brakes, adjustable shocks and gas and water tank holders. You can compare each of the trailers on their Models Comparison chart.

All the Treeline trailers have steel frames with steel fenders, rubber torsion axles, rear stabilizer jacks, mounted full-size spare tires, running lights, locking doors, a galley pass thru, a battery charger/converter, outlets, a thick foam mattress with a cover and a built-in two-burner stove.

 

Photos by Treeline Teardrop Trailers

Teardrop Trailer Radio Show

Teardrop trailer fans now have their own radio show. Brooke Folk, a professional radio host has debuted TearDropTrailerRadio.com, a weekly radio show on TalkShoe. The show will cover everything about teardrop trailers including manufactured and home-built trailers, gatherings and tips and tricks from teardrop owners and listeners. This show is for veteran teardroppers and people still shopping around for their own trailer.

The first show was May 18th, 2013 and featured GoLittleGuy president Joe Kicos. Brooke will soon be getting his first teardrop trailer, a Little Guy 6 Wide Platform named "Angel". Brooke is also writing an ebook on the history of teardrop trailers.

The show will be broadcast every Saturday at 11 a.m. EST, but if you miss it you can listen online at any time or download the show for your portable device.

Listen to the first episode here.