Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Body shell
Patent
1983-06-15
1985-08-27
Reeves, Robert B.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Body shell
296 31P, 296168, 280204, 220 4B, D12102, B62D 6306, B62D 2904
Patent
active
045374414
ABSTRACT:
A main frame is provided including opposite side rear wheels and a forwardly projecting tongue for coupling behind a motorcycle or other motor vehicle. A body assembly is supported from the main frame and includes an upwardly opening bottom half and a downwardly opening upper half downwardly telescoped over the bottom half and secured thereto. The upwardly opening bottom half includes upwardly projecting peripheral walls and the top half includes depending peripheral skirt walls telescoped downwardly over the peripheral walls of the bottom half. Portions of the opposite skirt walls spaced intermediate the front and rear ends thereof are vertically abbreviated and terminate downwardly in outwardly flared and arched integral fenders. Corresponding portions of the bottom half side peripheral walls include upper upwardly arched marginal extensions which abut and are anchored to the underside portions of the inner portions of the fenders and define inner fender well walls. The upper half of the body assembly includes structure for gaining access to the interior of the body assembly and the interior of the body is of a length and width to receive two side-by-side persons in prone positions for sleeping purposes.
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Popular Mechanics, Mar. 1981, p. 129.
Jacobson Harvey B.
Pedder Dennis H.
Reeves Robert B.
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