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Balboa Motorhome
RV

Road Icon: The Balboa Motorhome — Surf & Turf

In 1969, the renowned boat manufacturer Jensen Marine, of Costa Mesa, California, decided to get into the booming RV scene. Their designers imagined a rig tough enough for seafaring, but…
Honda XRV650 Africa Twin
Lifestyle & Travel

Road Icon: Out of Africa

In 1979, 182 racers took to the starting line for the inaugural Paris-Dakar Rally, a grueling 6,200-plus-mile race on tarmac and off-road terrain, including vast stretches of the Sahara Desert.…
Apache Ramada
RV

Road Icon: The Apache Ramada is In

In the early 1950s, campers had to be industrious. Tent trailers were a rare commodity, so avid travelers built their own. Eugene Lewis Vesely was one of those people. While…
Airstream Argosy
RV

Road Icon: Join the Airstream Argosy Club

In March 1972, when the first Airstream Argosy rolled out of the company’s newly opened manufacturing plant in Versailles, Ohio, it marked a pivot for the venerable brand—one not entirely…
Clark Cortez motorhome
RV

Road Icon: The Famous RV Used by NASA

A brief cameo in Fly Me to the Moon, the 2024 Channing Tatum/Scarlett Johansson rom-com, serves as a reminder that good looks never go out of style. The aging star…
Fleetwood Bounder
RV

Road Icon: The Fleetwood Bounder was a Giant Leap

During the winter of 1984, John C. Crean realized he needed to build something groundbreaking—or, rather, floor-breaking. As he and his wife traveled from the West Coast to Michigan, the…
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