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Very old Laze Daze for sale ad

January 10, 2022, 01:24:19 am

Was searching around my hometown newspaper archive, and wondered has there ever been a Lazy Daze for sale?

Why yes, sorta.

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Reply #1 – January 10, 2022, 09:09:15 am

Thanks for sharing Dave. This is the first time I saw a photo of the LD truck camper.

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Reply #2 – January 10, 2022, 10:06:47 am

Very cool! Isn’t that how LD got their start?

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Reply #3 – January 10, 2022, 10:18:16 am

Yes, they started with camper shells.

The Lazy Daze Companion: History of Lazy Daze

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Reply #4 – January 10, 2022, 11:19:41 am

The LD Companion article is a very good overview. Here is a scan taken from one of the factory scrapbooks in 2003. The original photo probably dates to the mid 1960s. A Caravan gathering with mostly truck campers with one of the new "Sportsman" campers.

Art

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Reply #5 – January 10, 2022, 01:26:42 pm

"A Caravan gathering with mostly truck campers with one of the new "Sportsman" campers."

I remember, even though it now seems like just a few days ago, salivating over the 'new' Chassis/Cab style of RV no matter the brand. It made any truck mounted camper pale in comparison! Even so, I also favored the Alaskan pop up, I think I would have been okay with that on a utility body.

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Reply #6 – January 10, 2022, 09:19:07 pm

WOW, Steve!! This is awesome!

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Reply #7 – January 11, 2022, 12:04:43 am

Dave,

It is remarkable that the ad states that it sleeps 6! Where could they possibly sleep?

Gary

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Reply #8 – January 11, 2022, 02:38:43 am

Hi Gary; Sleeping 6 people was mostly hyperbole. Two adults in the cabover. That wasn't shown on the drawing, but the picture reveals that most campers had the cabover. The dinette folded down, the table bridging the gap, and the cushions laying flat. The current MidBath does that still. Out on a limb here, but my old Lindy had a cabinet across the back, like my TK, but the front face folded down 90 degrees to form a bunk bed. It had a 1/4" thick panel that covered the doors. and about a 1" mat that served as a mattress. Maybe two small children or one larger, and the LD camper might have had that arrangement above the dinette, (passenger side.) Unlike todays 'palaces' on wheels, the camping was more tent like, but kept out (mostly) wind, rain and bugs.
My first camper (about 1965 vintage) had a CO producing propane lantern for light, a hand pump for sink water, and you had to burn a mantle often, for the propane light. I think Thorium was in the ashes of that. You could use the lantern for heat also. It had so many air leaks, I don't think CO or oxygen depletion was much of an issue. The cabover was large, more headroom than my TK, and better cushions. I had a good stained glass partition in it (I made it) worth at least $500, and sold the camper for $300! RonB

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Reply #9 – January 23, 2022, 08:40:22 am

My grandfather, whose grandparents settled in San Juan Capistrano, had an L. D. Camper in the ‘60s. I vividly remember the name on the back of it. 😊

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Reply #10 – January 23, 2022, 05:03:14 pm

Here's a page from the 1974-1975 Lazy Daze sales brochure. You can see how the design of the outside walls of the camper advanced from the initial corrugated side walls to the "smooth aircraft aluminum" siding used today.

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Reply #11 – January 23, 2022, 06:52:36 pm

Quote from: ChristineKNordstrom - January 23, 2022, 05:03:14 pm

Here's a page from the 1974-1975 Lazy Daze sales brochure. You can see how the design of the outside walls of the camper advanced from the initial corrugated side walls to the "smooth aircraft aluminum" siding used today.

Do you know of any remaining LD cabover campers?
I have never seen one in person.

And welcome to the LDOF, surprised we have never seen you here before, the Forum is over two decades old.

Larry

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Reply #12 – January 23, 2022, 11:13:54 pm

Larry, if you are every out in our Riverside County area, I know of two of these old Lazy Daze cab over campers in Jurupa Valley. According to the Feb 2021 google earth street views, both were still be there.
Both these old campers are 11.5 footers with the wet shower option in the back by the camper entry door.
One of them is off Union St. near Bellgrave Ave. This one is mounted on a one ton Chev dually, and you can easily see it from the street.
The other one is free standing in a backyard off Bain St. This one is pretty easy to find too as the homeowner claims he has the largest collection of toy Tonka dump trucks in the world and he has over 200 Tonka dump trucks on display in his front yard. Talk to him about the Tonkas and you can get him to take you in the back yard and show you the camper.

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Reply #13 – January 24, 2022, 12:29:08 am

The Tonka address is 5069 Bain St., Mira Loma

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Reply #14 – January 24, 2022, 01:32:50 am

Quote from: ChristineKNordstrom - January 23, 2022, 11:13:54 pm

Larry, if you are ever out in our Riverside County area, I know of two of these old Lazy

Thanks for the information, there can't be many of them left.

Larry

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Reply #15 – January 24, 2022, 01:36:16 am

Quote from: Dave Katleman - January 24, 2022, 12:29:08 am

The Tonka address is 5069 Bain St., Mira Loma

Using either Bing or Google maps, you can see the separated cabover camper, sitting at the rear of the lot.

Larry

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