1926 Camp Car

Sam Sr. & Mrs. Lindsey, Frances Lindsey, Uncle John Timmers in California.

He didn't like Josephine too much so, in 1928, he built another one on a Master 6 Buick Chassis.  This version was a forerunner of the Winnebago recreational vehicle with a couple of exceptions.  There were no modern facilities, so they had to cook outside.  This vehicle took the family to every state in the Union as well as Mexico and Canada.  It also climbed to the top of Pike's Peak.

"In 1928, he [Sam Lindsey, Sr.] built another [after Josephine], on a Buick chassis, that took our family to Canada.  This camper had inside toilet, shower, ice box, beds, clothes closets and all the conveniences of home.  The cooking had to be done on the outside as a Coleman stove was used.

"At that time, the roads were not marked so we took an Atlas and had to ask how to get from town to town.  Then, we had to look for gas as there were not many stations along the way.

"Every time we stopped anywhere, flocks of people would go through the camper -- they had never seen anything like that.  Remember, this was many years ahead of Winnebago."

[From a talk to the DAR by Sam Lindsey, Jr. on January 16, 1990 in Laurel, MS.]