Modernistic, Cub, Modernaire ????

[dguff]

Ok, I know all of the mentioned teardrops have very similar, if not identical, profiles. So what is the difference between them?? I also know they were all sold about the same time period. Does anyone have the answer as to the different names? Curious since I just bought a 1947 Cub and had previously built a Modernistic clone. Thanks for any enlightenment.

Jerome

[Gage]

Are you sure it's a Cub or is that what the seller called it? Jerome, you need to get a hold of Grant. Now that man would know.

[dguff]

I'm confident Grant will know. I bought my Modernistic profile plan from him. The seller has consistently referred to it as a Cub but I won't know for sure until I see it. It really doesn't make any difference to me which of the three it might be. I really like that profile.

Jerome

[grant whipp]

O.K., since I'm here anyway ... ... ... I'll give you the short version:

The Modernistic, Cub, Modernaire, and Marvel-Dwyer (along with some other obscure & regional names) were all cut from the same dies, somewhere in Southern California, beginning about 1946 and running into the mid-'50s. We don't know the name of the company or the mill that stamped out all the parts, but we do know the name of at least one of the many distributors: National Trailer Stores in Los Angeles.

Cubs were generally the economy models, with only the ice box in the galley counter with an open shelf above, and usually a single shelf in the cabin. The early ones had basic boat-trailer style aluminum fenders, but the later ones got the more stylish fenders associated with the Modernistic, Ken-Skill, and SlumberCoach

Modernistics were the mid-level models, with most getting stoves in the galley and some getting cabinets, with an additional shelf at the front of the cabin.

Both Cubs and Modernistics were available in kit form, where you asembled them like a giant Erector Set. Some Cub kits came with leaf-springs and beam axle, but most (like all Modernistic kits) had the torsion-type.

Modernaires and Marvel-Dwyers seem to be the top-of-the-line models, with both having more elaborate cabinetry, and more than a few Modernaires were built with a door on the street side.

And, just to confuse us even more, all of them had radius-corner windows in the early years, but some kept installing them for a year or two longer, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to who or why got what ...

There's a whole lot more to the history of this particular style of teardrop, but that'll give you enough info to get you in trouble ... ... ...

I'll be eager to see your new acquisition, Jerome? And, in the meantime ...

CHEERS!

Grant

[Miriam C.]

And not a picture one.

[Gage]

I just happen to have a couple.



From the interior pic, looks like it could be a Modernistic.

[grant whipp]

:roll: And not a picture one.

Didn't ya notice, Miriam ... I pre-qualified that by saying it was the short version ... ...

If ya want the l-o-n-g version (complete with color glossy photographs), you'll havta wait 'til the book comes out ... ...! And, the book won't come out 'til it gets published ... ...! But then, the bookhouse won't publish it 'til we finish writing it! ... ...

It's always somthin' ... ain't it ... ... ... ... ...?

[angib]

But then, the bookhouse won't publish it 'til we finish writing it!

It's a constant disappointment to me how picky some people can be.........

Andrew

[Miriam C.]

But then, the bookhouse won't publish it 'til we finish writing it!

It's a constant disappointment to me how picky some people can be.........

Andrew

I guess anything I say to this, especially about internet and pictures, will amount to volunteering, which I am not doing so I will hush up.

Thanks for the picture Gage. You guys are all the best.

[asianflava]

Well Grant, thanks for the short version. I couldn't figure out what the differences were. I just figured that it was a case of people calling one thing different names.

[dguff]

Thanks for the info Grant and thanks to Gage for posting the pics. It does have two doors and cabinets both front and rear in the cabin area. We will just have to wait and see.

Jerome

[mikeschn]

Good synopsis! Thanks Grant!

Mike...

[BrwBier]

:roll: And not a picture one.

Didn't ya notice, Miriam ... I pre-qualified that by saying it was the short version ... ...

If ya want the l-o-n-g version (complete with color glossy photographs), you'll havta wait 'til the book comes out ... ...! And, the book won't come out 'til it gets published ... ...! But then, the bookhouse won't publish it 'til we finish writing it! ... ...

It's always somthin' ... ain't it ... ... ... ... ...?

Would those be 8x10 color glossy photographs with a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what it is. Alices Resturant

[grant whipp]

... Would those be 8x10 color glossy photographs with a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what it is. Alices Resturant

"... with every item numbered, tagged, and i-dentified ..."?

You must be thinkin' of the coffee table version, there, Herr Brewmeister, eh what ... ... ...?

Yaaa ... sheooor ... yeewwwbetcha ...

[mary and bob]

We were told that the Cubs were all sold in kit form. the assembled trailers used aircraft type rivets, which our modernistic has. I know it is a Modernistic because I found the faded remnant of a stencil or decal on the right side ahead of the door that says Modernistic Camper. ours has the rounded window in the door and the styled type fenders. the interior had been redone as was the galley butchered up so who knows what was in it originally. anyone know where I can get a reproduction Modernistic decal? I have a couple original Cub magazine ads. Bob