Camp Out in an LRV

You may recall that back in January, I posted that one of the four surviving Boeing-Vertol LRVs, San Francisco Municipal Railway 1271, had been put up for sale. I finally got around to following up on this, and as weird as listing an LRV on Craigslist is, the tale gets weirder.

It appears that in March, car 1271 was sold to a couple from Geyserville, California, who moved it to their rural property there. Their plan is to open a campground centered around this piece of, er, history, which is unusual enough in itself. They're even naming the campground in honor of the car: the project has been dubbed Camp MUNI at Rancho Margarita, which I guess is the preexisting name of the property. And if that isn't unique enough, the whole project has even been the subject of a Kickstarter campaign - and if the numbers at the above link are to be believed, a successful one. Both images in this post are screen grabs from a video posted of the LRV being craned into place (above) and sitting serenely in its bucolic new surroundings (below).

So, car 1271's ownership has been updated. The Kickstarter link has a couple of quirky videos, including a tour through the (mostly tunneled) LRV taken before it was moved from its former site at a Richmond, California, junkyard. Equipment like this that ends up on private property is typically very difficult to track, but I'll do my best to keep tabs on this car. And if you go camping in car 1271, send me some photos and let me know how things went.