Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

by **Saucy_Girl** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 2:42 pm

I am hoping you can help. I recently saw a small egg shaped trailer being pulled behind a VW in Michigan. I fell in love. Since then I have looked everywhere, but can't find it. I am pretty sure it said Le Egg on the side, but that might have been custom paint not the name. It was more rounded than a true teardrop style and very small. It did not have retro styling at all. Please help. Any hints on where to find these little darlings would be appreciated.

by **Shrug53** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 2:44 pm

Is this what you are talking about?

by **mikeschn** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 2:46 pm

Did it look anything like this?

Mike...

by **Shrug53** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 2:49 pm

Mike, wow, that is a picture. Although it looks like a little fellow in search of an egg! :lol:

by **Saucy Girl** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 2:52 pm

You guys are great for the quick reply, but no. It isn't either one. The closest sample I have found is the little guy trailers found at http://www.teardroptrailersexpress.com/gallery_l.php

But those are not exactly right - but close. Thanks.

by **Shrug53** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 2:55 pm

You are not, by any chance, referring to the T@B are you?

by **Saucy_Girl** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 2:58 pm

Where did you find it? That looks exactly the trailer. Thank you so much.

by **Shrug53** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 3:03 pm

You can find it here. I understand it has gotten quite popular lately:

http://www.tab-rv.com

You can d/l a brochure and even take a virtual tour of one.

by **Saucy_Girl** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 3:10 pm

Thank you again. If all goes well, I will soon be joining your group as a new owner.
Take care.

by **Shrug53** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 3:22 pm

Wow, impressive saucy, those run anywhere from $9000 to $14,000!
Guess us poor folk will stick to building our own. Mine will probably run about $2500.00
The Tabs are pretty neat though and I would not mind parking next to one! Though some others (from another board which shall remain nameless) turn their noses up.
Oh one really good thing, because of the small size you can actually have it painted by an auto painter rather than a special rv painter. If I had one I would probably make it satin black to match my car and put some moon racing discs on it.

by **dmb90260** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 7:34 pm

I believe I saw a Tab on E-bay today. You might get a better deal there.
There were several Tears ranging from "use now" to "save the frame and start over."

by **mikeschn** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 4:24 am

There is a yahoo group called "tabtrailers" where they discuss these babies. And a couple weeks ago an RV dealer posted a message that he has several tabs that he is practically giving away. I think he said $8900 or something like that.

Try here...

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/tabtrailers/

Mike...

by **Joseph** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 11:37 am

Saucy_Girl wrote:If all goes well, I will soon be joining your group as a new owner.

You might want to join the Yahoo group Mike mentioned and get the skinny on these: I understand they have some serious delamination problems with their outer skins, hence the fact that dealers are constantly unloading them, especially on eBay where the problems don't show up in the pictures.
I don't like them simply because I don't want to have to turn my dinette into a bed every night and back again every morning, but there are a LOT of small travel trailers (and a few homebuilt teardrops) that do this and if that's fine with you, the T@B is cute and fairly lightweight.

Joseph

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