JJGrady wrote: I just bought a 73 holiday traveler it is a 24' any info I can get on this trailer would be nice. The fresh water tank has been removed so I need to know what size tank to put back into the trailer.
My owners manual shows the '73 Holiday Traveler has a 30 gal fresh water tank and a 20 gal waste tank.
Let me know if there is anything else you need.
Can you post picture?
Martha
Thank you very much for the info. I would love to post pics of the TT DW and I plan on restoring but I don't know how (yet). Help on this would be nice. "FYI I'm not to computer savvy. I am better with the iPhone though".
I stumbled across this forum in one of my searches. I just got a Holiday travel trailer. It is around 23' from tongue to bumper. Don't have an exact on that. From what I've seen folks advertising, supposing that they know what they are talking about, I have a 1973 Holiday Vacationer. A friend gave it to me that was on a deer lease with me. It is dry, no leaks. He said that 3 years ago, he pulled it fully functioning from another lease where they had water and sewer hooked up. He further stated that the gas lines were fully functional.
Since he gave it to me and I only have about $300 in it so far (tires, lights, wiring), I was trying to figure out how to start rebuilding it. I've attached a picture of it being towed back to the lease when I thought that old tires could make it 4hours north to Dallas. Yes, Yes, I learned a lesson. Thank God for Triple A!!
Someone mentioned earlier about having some informational material about this unit or another unit similar. Would love to find out how to obtain it.
Lastly, yes I know, lengthy post, I seen somewhere that I could change out the hubs on the current axles to a 5bolt Ford hub with very little trouble. Any ideas?
Holiday Rambler produced 5 series of travels in 1973. These where the Holiday Vacationer, Holiday Traveler, Holiday Rambler, Royal Holiday and the Holiday Rambler Park Model. All models where very well built with the Holiday Rambler, Royal and Park Model having Aluminum frame construction and the Traveler had Aluminum frame construction as an option other wise it was a wood frame trailer. The vacationer series was a wood frame but it had the distinction with in the industry of not using what is called stick and tin construction.
What I can tell you about their products is they where very strong and well built. All frames at that time use heavy wall 6" box steel from the hitch to the rear bumper with heavy cross member from front to rear. Solid floor construction with insulated underbelly except on the Vacationer. The side wall use Holidays rambler Alumaframe Construction, which is made up of an aluminum frame that increased strength, eliminated the problem of wood rot and improved drastically the ability to heat and cool the unit. To the aluminum frame was laminated a 1/2" fome-cor insulation, vapor and frost barrier to the inside of the coach and a thermolite barrier to the outside with the aluminum skin mechanically fasten to the frame. In the cavity between the studs would be filled with fiberglass insulation that specially made to not sage over time. It made for a quiet and warm or cool unit to be in. In 1973 all exterior surfaces on all Holiday products had side walls, roof front and rear caps and underbelly of aluminum.
My spec book for 1973 shows that the 31' holiday Rambler had a weight of 5145lbs from the factory and a hitch weight of 680 lbs. The fresh water system at this time used a pressure tank instead of a demand pump like units being built today. Typical these water tanks where 30 gallons but there was an option for a larger tank of 45 gallons. The black and gray tanks where 30 galloons and the water heater was 8 gallons.
I would think this trailer has had modification made to over the years and I would expect the appliances to ether have been changed or show a pretty good amount of use by now. The advantage you have is the structure of this coach will be strong even after nearly 40 years of use and should give you many year of service into the future with some care. Frankly if the price is right and it looks good I wouldn't hesitate to make the purchase.
I have the complete product information books on Holiday Rambler product of this year and all the technical drawing and many of the build orders at my finger tips if you find you need more information.
Doug
Hello Doug and anyone with information.
We just purchased what I believe to be a rare unit to fix up and use full time. From what little I can find out it is a 32 foot 1976 Holiday Rambler Park Model with two tip outs? It is completely intact, has been in two parks here in south Florida all of its life! Probably towed less than 15 miles over 36 years!
We have fulltimed it for the last year in a 2001 Coachman 28 foot bunk house. Our family consist of 4, me, my wife and our two son 14 and 3. We quickly discovered the Coachman is way too small! We do like the simpler less cluttered lifestyle and this opportunity arose to buy the classic Holiday Rambler Park.
I found one sheet from an old magazine with a picture of the outside, that is all I can find as in history and facts on these units, any light is a plus.
It is structurally sound, all the skin and underbelly is intact, the interior needs painted and some tile and carpet. The ceiling is in very good shape, the roof appears to have been well maintained, so no leaks. The floors are all solid, the kitchen cabinets and hall cabinets are original. The stove, refrigerator and instant water heater have been replaced in the last couple of years with modern equivalents.
The living room has a sliding glass door that appear original?? There appears to have not been any built in in the living room or back bedroom? What was there originally to make good use of the space?? The living room tilt out is almost 4 foot deep and 99 inch long, the bedroom tilt out is the same dept but 65 inches long. The tip out appear to be fiberglass?
We will be setting it up on our lot this weekend and will know a lot more. It does have a conventional toilet with sewer hook up for all drainage It looks almost like a travel trailer but has a higher front roof, tip outs and convention plumbing and non rv frig and bigger propane stove and oven.
We hope to restore it and preserve a strange little bit of the Seventies Travel Trailer Industry. I will post picture soon
I thought it was about time to update my progress with my '73 HR. Last week we opened her up after being stored for the winter. I was pleased to find no evidence of mice or other varmints.
We still had the original, large aluminum propane tanks and the original valves from 1973. Those valves can no longer be used-they are no longer legal and you can't get them filled. So late last summer we had the valves replaced and the tanks filled.
Yesterday DH hooked it all back up and !!!!! it works! no leaks detected so far. The stove and oven both lit perfectly. We had to light the funace pilot manually, but other than that-it fired right up and started putting out plenty of heat!!!
I am so pleased-I've been worrying about the propane systems since we bought this thing a year ago. (the price was good enough that we relied on the previous owner's promises that everything works-not wise, I know, but what's done is done, lol).
Our next step is to replace the ceiling fans with Fantastic Fans. Hopefully soon, but probaly not. Things get done very slowly around here
By the way, I still LOVE my trailer.
Martha
I know-pictures....still haven't figured it out...working on it.
weedlady wrote: DH and I are looking at a 1973 Holiday Rambler. DH looked at the outside today and it's in really good shape. We plan to look at the inside on Saturday. "Everything works as it should". (I will check this out very carefully). The price is right.
I'm having trouble finding information about Holiday Ramblers of this era. Is there anything in particular I need to be aware of? Can anyone tell me where online to look for details?
thanks
Martha
..............Have DH climb up onto the roof..........where the plywood seams come together under the rubber roof apply weight on each edge , see if you hear any cracking caused by water leaks causing the plywood too expand and rot ! You should beable too walk all over the roof without falling through . , jf
JJGrady wrote: Thank you very much for the info. I would love to post pics of the TT DW and I plan on restoring but I don't know how (yet). Help on this would be nice. "FYI I'm not to computer savvy. I am better with the iPhone though".
To post pictures on the Forum, you'll first need to upload them to a picture hosting website like Photobucket, Picasa, etc.. Copy the URL of the picture from the hosting site. Choose the "Advanced Post Form" for your post. Above the text window is a row of choice Icons. Select the yellow box icon, the "Image" one. Paste the URL of your picture in the box and choose "Submit". There is a limit to how large your picture can be, the width limit is 640 pixels. If you are pasting a larger picture than the limit, all you have to do is add a space and type "width=640" after the .jpg on the end of the pictures URL.
If you have any more questions, just ask, I'll lead you through it.
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