Vintage Trailer Print - Tin Can Tourists - Vintage Trailer Rally Poster - St Ignace Michigan - Lost Highways Classic Trailer and Motor Home

Vintage Trailer Print - Tin Can Tourists - Vintage Trailer Rally Poster - St Ignace Michigan - Lost Highways Classic Trailer and Motor HomeTreasures from THE CLASSIC TRAILER & MOTOR HOME COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review. Print size 24 x 14, and consciously formatted to work with a 24 x 14 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. This is the poster for our 8th and final rally in St. Ignace, Michigan. As LOST HIGHWAYS, THE CLASSIC TRAILER & MOTOR HOME CLUB, we started the first vintage trailer rallies in the US. Florida,

Treasures from THE CLASSIC TRAILER & MOTOR HOME COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library.  By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.

Print size 24 x 14, and consciously formatted to work with a 24 x 14 frame, or custom framed as you see fit.

This is the poster for our 8th and final rally in St. Ignace, Michigan.  As LOST HIGHWAYS, THE CLASSIC TRAILER & MOTOR HOME CLUB, we started the first vintage trailer rallies in the US.  Florida, California and Michigan, and there are vintage trailer scenes in all those places and more to this day.  This was all done just before the internet, and we forget nowadays how involved and expensive it used to be to bring everybody together, but we made it happen.

From the beginning we called our Florida and Michigan get togethers Tin Can Tourist Reunion Rallies, in honor of the earlyy auto camping tourists of the 1920s and the trailer enthusiasts of the 1930s who would flock from the rust belt states to Florida and back again with the weather.  After six years of holding Tin Can Tourist rallies, a group calling themselves the Tin Can Tourists formed and restarted the old organization, and they now have their own rallies in Michigan.  Excellent! 

Our plan was always to make it happen in the Mid Atlantic after we got it all going around the country, but life steps in and all the joys and nightmares of a good and wild life leapt in.  Now, a dozen years later, Lost Highways is beginning to stir and evolve as The Lost Weekenders, a very rally centric vintage trailer club in the Mid Atlantic.  Our stated mission is to seek out and develop several locations that are vintage trailer oriented full time, welcoming all the associated style grooves of cars and bikes, clothes and music, good food cooked and the time to share it with friends.  No more content to make the occasional appearance at someone else's space and converting it for a few days to our tastes.  Time for real destinations, to arrive and relax in the company of like minded kooks.

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There is a real sense of excitement involved, and a great many smiles and knowing grins when we make that deal and bring that ancient print, that battered photo, that scrap of ephemera that contains some scrap of genius from an unknown commercial artist home with us, knowing already how we mean to approach its restoration.

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Then there is a meticulous digital restoration that is as often as much fun as riding a vintage Moto Guzzi on a winding coastal road. I don’t care if that sounds crazy, it really is like jumping in the saddle! So many choices, so many chances to take to subtly or spectacularly give new life to otherwise permanently obscure images.

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