SOT - So You Asked What Can I Tow & Camp in with My 914!?, How About an Eriba Puck? Options

[Tom_T]

In the past, several member on here have asked what they could tow for camping with their 914.

Well how about this little Pucker!?

They were designed with VW's help back in 1957, to be easily towable by VW Beatles (25 hp back then), Isettas, Minis, etc., etc.

So they're definitely Porsche Towable!


& VW of course!





... pay attention to this last one, see it below.

or with a ....



Okay, you get the idea! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif)

I'd always just tent camped out of my `73 914-2.0 when she was my DD 1775-85, & I don't know that I'd want to put a hitch on mine when restored - but I could & do just fine with this Puck.

Well .... we picked up another toy yesterday!

I know, I know .... it's "Repetitively Redundant" towed with a Westy full camper, but think of it as a guest house for the grandkids!

Also, since it's a 1970, it's eligible for the vintage trailer events which we go to (the Westy is too young!), we can go with this, & since it's small car towable, we can tow it with the Westy, & with the 85 325e & 914-2.0 - if I put hitches on them.

1970 Eriba Puck (German made Export mode &l finished fitting-out in CA with the CA-HCD RV/Trailer Approval Plate), 12' L (10' L box) x 5.5' W, 660 lbs empty, 70 lbs hitch wt. - sleeps 2-3 at dinette made into bed, 2 burner LP stove, Icebox (some had the optional 3-way fridge), sink & +/-10 gal. fresh water tank, center pop-top lifts for standing room & donw to fit in a normal ht. garage.

Our new Baby - mostly original:



So we'll take the Lil' Pucker for her own inaugural trip with us ]to Puck around the weekend before Thanksgiving for a group camp out with other vintage trailer buddies.

Wife is happy now! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cheer.gif)

Cheers! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
Tom
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[DRPHIL914]

That's a cute little pucker (IMG:style_emoticons/default/slap.gif) , sorry couldn't resist. I was a kid in late '60's and 70's and remember seeing these. Money was tight even though Motel 6 was literally like $6 a night, on our trips to CA from MN my dad would stop and a camp site and we would pitch our huge canvas tent, (we had a VW square back at the time), saw those for sure. Would be cool to find one and restore it. Thanks for the history lesson Tom and the walk down memory lane

[Tom_T]

That's a cute little pucker (IMG:style_emoticons/default/slap.gif) , sorry couldn't resist. I was a kid in late '60's and 70's and remember seeing these. Money was tight even though Motel 6 was literally like $6 a night, on our trips to CA from MN my dad would stop and a camp site and we would pitch our huge canvas tent, (we had a VW square back at the time), saw those for sure. Would be cool to find one and restore it. Thanks for the history lesson Tom and the walk down memory lane

This one is the same MY as when I graduated High School Phil!

I maybe saw a few back in the 60's, but our XC camping trips every summer plus some local SoCal camping weekends with us 6 kids, Mom & Dad - first consisted of tent camping out of our `63 Chevy Corvair Greenbriar 9 passenger van, then out of our slide-in truck camper on our `67 Chevy C20 3/4 ton pick-up with Camper Package (327 ci, 4 bbl Holley, AT).

Our kids in turn had a similar level of camping fun with our `88 Westy since it was new.

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Thanx everyone for all the great comments.

Thos einterested in Pucks etc., look at TheSamba, CL, evilbay. There were 2 others FS when we found that this was available, when I asked the former owner of our Puck about one of them, & he said that his wife had passed & wanted to sell this.

They come up a few times every year or so, but this super nice & well maintained one fell into our laps. So we have more of a charge of taking over stewardship of this nice Lil' Pucker from the former owners.

And the Puck naming fun is endless, & my wife chimes in with them too, but it's not the named "her cute little Puck". So we'll be Pucking Around in it for our first campout with vintage trailer buddies the weekend before Thanksgiving.

However - we won't be bringing it to the PCA GPX 914 Breakfast this coming Saturday, because "Cone Meister" Dick Douglass has limited space for you Teeners, but we plan to be there to visit with y'all!

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Tom
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