The Tin Can Tales
www.tincantourists.com
f23bone@earthlink.net
Tin Can Tourists is an all make and model vintage trailer and motor coach club. Its
goal is to promote and preserve vintage trailers and motor coaches through
Gatherings and information exchange.
Official Colors: Black and Tan
Official Theme Song: "The More We Get Together"
Stated Objective: To Unite Fraternally All Auto Campers
Guiding Principles: Clean camps, friendliness among campers, decent behavior and to
secure plenty of clean, wholesome entertainment for those in the camps
Tin Can Tourists Caravan Celebrating the Bicentennial
Anniversary of the Historic National Road
The Tin Can Tourists have been honored by the Six State Alliance of the Historic
National Road by being chosen to participate in the Bicentennial Celebration. TCT in
conjunction with the Six State Alliance have chosen 30 vintage trailers and motor
coaches to travel the road from June 4-10, 2006 from mile marker zero in Cumberland,
Maryland to its original terminus in Vandalia, Illinois. The selected RV’s will represent
some of the industries premier manufactures from Airstream to Vagabond. Tow vehicles
of similar vintage will tow many of the rigs. The Caravan will give people along the route
a chance to see a rare Curtiss Aero Car towed by a custom International for the late
1930’s and a 1936 Bowlus Road Chief towed by a 1937 Buick Roadmaster as well as
other fine examples of trailers and motor coaches from the 40’s 50’s and 60’s.
The Historic National Road
In 1806, an Act of Congress allocated funds for George Washington’s Dream of
building an all-weather road across the Allegany Mountains and into the heart of the
frontier. President Thomas Jefferson signed the bill into law and The National Road; the
nation’s first federally funded interstate highway was born.
The road would eventually stretch for more than 800 miles and cross six states
from its beginning at Baltimore, Maryland to its termination at the Mississippi in East St.
Louis, Illinois.
Construction of the road began in 1811 at Cumberland, Maryland extending the
already existing route from the seaport of Baltimore. It was know first as The
Cumberland Road but has since been known by several names including The Great
National Pike, The Old National Road and The National Trail.
