Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

I can't help myself. I've been worrying over this design for ages since I realized that the MiniBago bears a disturbing resemblance to a green and white garbage truck that I played with as a kid. Also, I REALLY like the teardrop shape and wanted my design to conform, but also be unique. Blah, blah, anyway, I've redesigned the MiniBago, but am I out in left field? You be the judge.

MiniBago


The AeroFoil or the SlipStream





The dimensions of 63" x 120" for the main box and 36"x18" for the front trunk and the interior design stay the same, but everything else is radically different. The renderings are still rough, but what do you think of the new design?

GB

Looks nice! It's like you took sandpaper to the original design and smoothed it out.

We like it alot..... Good lines. The round window up front really sets it off.

Ok, Ok, Ok!

I like the new shape. It's a unique take on the original teardrop shape. Stillllll, I really think that the MiniBago is THE most unique profile in the weekender/grasshopper/sunfish/or whatever we name the non-tears. I admit to being jaded because I'm building an angular trailer, but the MiniBago rocks.

Joanne

I liked the original better!

I really like the uniqueness of the original but always thought the kick out added complexity and wasted space vesus materials used...the new profile addresses those concerns and looks very cool to boot...I don't know how that loooooong slope is gonna affect galley space/usage...does the hatch stop at the breakover point or come all the way down (or is nonexistent)......
madjack

p.s. Joanne...your prejudice is showing

I still like the original too...

Your new profile isn't bad though... you don't need to come down so far in the back. 15 degrees from the top curve is all you need. After that you create turbulence when the airflow breaks away from the body. (Andrew taught me that!)

Mike...

I like it. That would be very unique.

Me???

Joanne

madjack wrote:

p.s. Joanne...your prejudice is showing

Wow, I am kind of surprised! Thank you all for the input. The MiniBago always struck me as kind of a clunky design, not very clean. Joanne, you are hereby dubbed the Queen of Angular Trailers. I beg forgiveness, your Grace, for abandoning the TT fold for the shiny roundness of Teardropdom. It's the Fish Inn and Rocky's designs that lured me to the dark side, those are two slick trailers.

Mike, I realize that the curve comes down really too far in the back (I think it looks, dare I say, sexy!?). If I stop the curve at 15 degrees from top, I'll end with a bobtail rear end and I'm not sure if anybody wants to see that!

I wanted the curve to come to the top of the countertop where the hatch will end and undercounter storage will be handled with hatch access from the back. Madjack, your comments about the front kick-out echo my concerns about that design. I think the new design will be easier to build. The cutback under the rear counter allows me to stand at the counter without rapping my knees against the lower storage area.

Because I am as weird as I am, uniqueness of design was and is still important to me, which is why I like this look. It looks familiar to, but not the same as, a classic teardrop. I think I'll dub her "Streamliner". Wife has said we are not covering in aluminum . Oh, and to hijack my own thread. I finally got a new tow vehicle last night, a Durango that can tow 8700 pounds. Overbuild, shmoverbuild, she's gonna be built to last! Thanks everyone again for the input, I'm actually about to start makin' sawdust in a couple of weeks.

GB

Personally I like both of them for differnt reason. But I am going to sing my basic song... Build it the way you like it.

Dee Bee