* there’s something about a caravan
Even those of us who never owned one feel nostalgic for them, for the feeling of freedom and family they represent, all the unbound summers, open roads and beans straight from the can. While people have been affixing liveable trailers to the backs of cars since the first Model T rolled out of the Ford factory, it wasn’t until the peace and prosperity of the 1950s that the mobile home really slipped into popular consciousness. For the next thirty years, caravans owned the roads, redefining what it meant to take a family holiday and unleashing a new wave of automobile design. From DIY tin cans to fully furnished fibreglass legends, the caravans produced during these shining decades were things of great ingenuity and strangeness.
We’ve collected the six that defined the golden age of mobile homes.
CARAPARK SUPERB
When the throttle really opened on Australia’s caravan
