TCT Regional Representatives
TCT has grown to the point that Jeri and I felt we could better serve our membership through an organizational pattern that would include Regional Representatives. The Representatives are being asked to develop activities in their geographical region and serve as a sounding board for ideas concerning TCT events and policies. It is our goal to develop a major Gathering in each area. Gathering attendees can then develop additional activities through the Regional Representative.
Forrest Bone and Jeri Bone: Royal Exalted Tin Can Opener and Royal Exalted First Lady
Email: f23bone@earthlink.netMailing address: 4 High Street, Bradenton, Florida 34208
Summer April to October: 1700 General Motors Rd., Milford, MI 48380
Terry Bone and Michelle Bone: Webmaster and Wagonmaster
Email: webmaster@tincantourists.com
Our Regional Representatives are:
Hunt Jones (Susan) - TCT Representative at Large
- Mountain Lakes NJ
- Braden Castle Park FL
- Anywhere in the lower 48's
- Usually found: under the hood
- TCT Member since 2001
- Towing vintage with vintage since 1997 (13K miles/year)
- Motto #1: "Noise to some, Music to others" (exhaust note)
- Motto #2: "Never pass by a beater tavern"
Bill and Denise Fletcher; Northeast Regional Representative:
New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Washington DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and New JerseyEmail: fletch@vintagekingpins.com
Patrick & Joanne Ewing; Northwest Regional Representative:
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, NebraskaEmail: pre47airstream@aol.com
Dan Piper; Mid-States:
Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas.Email: dan@vintagecampers.com
Website: www.vintagecampers.com
Tim Heintz - Panama City Beach, Fl; Southeast Regional Representative:
West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, LouisianaEmail: FIFTYSIXHICKS@aol.com
Heintz Designs Vintage Trailer Restorations
Karen Campbell - Albuquerque, NM; Southwest Regional Representative:
Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Hawaii.Email: karencampbellwithrt66@hotmail.com
Rob and Shari Davis - Edgewater, Colorado; Colorado State Representative
Email: rob-tct@comcast.net
Penny Cotter - Santa Cruz, CA; California Representative:
Email: auntpenny06@yahoo.com
Rick Myer, Eastern Canada
rick_myer@sympatico.ca
Gerry & Susan Measures - Vancouver, BC, Western Canada
tessiebear@shaw.ca
TCT International Representatives
Trish Martin - Australia
My husband Dave and I are musicians and have a duo called "Leather and Lace", Dave is a cabinet maker and works for the local shire council, we have three daughters aged 15, 13 and 9 and live in an old Hotel in country Victoria, Australia. We are renovating the old pub and it isn't open for business and hasn't been for some time, it is 140 years of age.
I have always had a love for caravans and currently have three old ones: 1970 Travel Home DeLuxe, an old English Fairholme Romeo from the 1950's and the other a Hawthorn built in Hawthorn Melbourne in the 1940's. A few others have came to us and been sold on to other enthusiasts who proudly tow them behind their vintage vehicles. I would love to give your members an Australian perspective and show you vintage caravans that I come across, we live in a very beautiful and unspoiled area of the country and I always feel proud to share that with others. I feel honored to be a representative for Australia.
Email: sandford@netspace.net.au
René Leenders - Netherlands
My name is René Leenders, 48 years old, father of 2 beautiful sons and known in this part of the world as Mr. Airstream. Back in 1999 I owned a catering- and event business who was looking for something special to promote my company. I ended up with the Tin Can Trailers as I thought back then that every US Travel trailer looked like that. It became quite a journey trying to find out how to import one of those shiny trailers and to become familiar with the huge differences between the US spec travel trailers and the European ones. Internet was not as well spread as it is today. In fact the TCT site was one of the few providing some information. The Airstream plant did not even have a website back then.To share my experience with the rest of the world I started a small website called www.airstream-holland.nl and that is how I became "famous" in the world of aluminum travel trailers here. I imported and converted a lot of Vintage trailers and started my own business in renting them out. In 2008 I was then approached by Airstream to become an official dealer for their European spec Airstream models. The Rental & Vintage business was then broadened to what it is today with www.airstreamprofessionals.com . Our client base is continental Europe with clients from The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Denmark, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. We learned this business the "trial and error" way and with an 11 year experience we know our ways.
The business does not only include Airstream. We also serve other brands provided they give the Tin Can feeling or add something to the camping experience not available in Europe. We are selling teardrop trailers of our own brand FunTear and will soon release the FunTear Retro - a new 1950's inspired aluminum travel trailer. Our showroom has been given the name "American Caravan Center". The word caravan in the UK and Europe means travel trailer (not what it means in the US)
The install base of Tin Cans in the Benelux has now come to a point of almost 300 trailers. I guess now is the time to start a local unit of TCT. There is going to be a rally from the UK via Belgium to The Netherlands on June 17 expected to be the largest one of all so far with 50 participants.
Email: r.g@leenders-online.nl
Website: http://www.airstream-holland.nl/
Hiroshi Okamoto; Japan Representative
Website: http://www.airstreamcafe.jp/TCT Support Staff
Michael Lambert: Graphics Extrodinaire and V.P. of Calendar production
Email: michael.lambert@sympatico.ca
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