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pavinrtheway		2008-01-21 08:04:10 PM

I want one.

madcharlie		2008-01-21 08:05:15 PM

That thing is pimp. I'd totally buy one.

the_cnidarian		2008-01-21 08:07:09 PM

Where are the wheels?

madcharlie		2008-01-21 08:08:53 PM

the_cnidarian: Where are the wheels?

Wheels? Wheels are for driving on the road. These were designed for the future. Where they're going, they don't need roads.

Righteously Indignant		2008-01-21 08:11:21 PM

That's the coolest goddamn thing I've ever seen. There's nothing about it I don't like.

Weaver95		2008-01-21 08:11:27 PM

that's actually kinda cool. I wonder how easy it is to set up and break down?

Lew Stool		2008-01-21 08:15:34 PM

The guy who designed this also designed the more well-known Futuro House (pops).

Is there nothing the Finnish cannot do?

Mythy		2008-01-21 08:42:30 PM

groovy pad, man!

krysbabe		2008-01-21 08:46:58 PM

I love it!

whatshisname		2008-01-21 09:11:00 PM

iPad

wildrufus		2008-01-21 09:29:01 PM

/jealous neighbors

veedeevadeevoodee		2008-01-21 09:34:53 PM

Tastes Like Chicken		2008-01-21 10:33:40 PM

steelpeg		2008-01-21 10:48:20 PM

Is it wrong that I'd like to do one of those girls in the pictures??

/Ahhh...then, not now...

LordJiro		2008-01-21 11:21:18 PM

whatshisname: iPad

Absorbent AND trendy!

/sorry, couldn't resist

vodka		2008-01-21 11:22:16 PM

I think there are modern versions of this. In fact I think it was here on Fark that I originally saw the article about them. Some sort of modern environmental mobile home or something. One side was almost completely glass.

TooCheapToTF		2008-01-21 11:23:47 PM

steelpeg: Is it wrong that I'd like to do one of those girls in the pictures??

/Ahhh...then, not now...

Leave that last part in the Granny Stripper thread!

/groovy pad

saffronrobe		2008-01-21 11:23:59 PM

What is it with the 70's and the color brown/orange, wood paneling?

swahnhennessy		2008-01-21 11:24:26 PM

FORBIDDEN

ArtosRC		2008-01-21 11:25:50 PM

This headline is absolutely marvelous.

I applaud you, submitter.

Cuchulane		2008-01-21 11:25:54 PM

I would think that it would be difficult to find a space large and flat enough to set it up. Well,an interesting place anyway.

Frank N Stein		2008-01-21 11:26:35 PM

I wonder how cool it would look after some red neck residence settled in it at a trailer park for 10 years.

Fluff Girl		2008-01-21 11:28:11 PM

steelpeg: Is it wrong that I'd like to do one of those girls in the pictures??

/Ahhh...then, not now...

I'm thinking that if the towel pic didn't make it move a little, you may be gay.

/NTTAWWT

Gavino		2008-01-21 11:31:05 PM

I would have one of those. Very cool.

/black and brushed aluminium interior though, obviously.

Earpj		2008-01-21 11:31:20 PM

It's neat and all, but with sooo many windows, how're you gonna be safe from the zombies??

ktybear		2008-01-21 11:31:25 PM

I want one! They look better than a yurt, but then again yurts look really neat made out of timer and I don't think these come in brown, just nasty 70s orange.....

Shadow Blasko		2008-01-21 11:31:57 PM

the_cnidarian: Where are the wheels?

Mobile homes don't need wheels. They dont call them that because they are "mobile"

Mobile Homes are named so because James Sweet moved his Post WW2 "Baby boomer starter home" fabrication facility to Mobile, Alabama.

/The More you know.

daveydave		2008-01-21 11:32:12 PM

That thing is a piece of shiat.

No Such Agency		2008-01-21 11:32:27 PM

Fluff Girl:
I'm thinking that if the towel pic didn't make it move a little, you may be gay.

After almost a decade of internet porn, if it doesn't have three midgets and a llama I couldn't care less.

Great house. Do want. Remember when The Future didn't suck?

skinink		2008-01-21 11:33:08 PM

"Yes, Farkers may make fun of my cankles, but they know when they want a healthy rump they'll come for my humps!"

www.treehugger.com

Constance Velocity		2008-01-21 11:33:13 PM

Lew_Stool: The guy who designed this also designed the more well-known Futuro House (pops).

Is there nothing the Finnish cannot do?

That is the worst website I have ever seen.

Day_Old_Dutchie		2008-01-21 11:33:30 PM

Hot babes...in bikinis, short-shorts and a towel!

FTW

jjorsett		2008-01-21 11:34:19 PM

Add a window or two and you have a house right here:

Calvin Coolidge		2008-01-21 11:34:33 PM

I'll take the one in the blue towel.

Earpj: It's neat and all, but with sooo many windows, how're you gonna be safe from the zombies??

Or the velociraptors.

rocinante721		2008-01-21 11:36:18 PM

buzzvert		2008-01-21 11:37:18 PM

Good thing those trailers weren't full of watermelons- this thread would have never seen the light of day.

GT_Frog		2008-01-21 11:37:49 PM

Is it wrong that I'd like to do one of those girls in the pictures??

Let's see... They look to be about 20 or so years old in 1971...

It's 2008... That's ss..zzzz..ssss.zz. carry the one...

They're 57 or so years old now, but that's the new 40's...

Yea... I'd hit it...

vodka		2008-01-21 11:38:57 PM

Ah, found it:
img106.imageshack.us

It was in Wired here.

AtikuX		2008-01-21 11:39:23 PM

how do you move it around? Even if you can take it apart, you still have all the tables, sauna stove, wooden radios, plastic chairs,... and all that to carry around.
Maybe they have flying semi-trailers trucks in the future.

/What's with the plants in the sauna?

Fluff Girl		2008-01-21 11:39:30 PM

veedeevadeevoodee

When I saw the Clinton Library I was amazed at how it looks like a singlewide trailer hanging out over the river.

aerojockey		2008-01-21 11:41:01 PM

That's pretty good for the 70s.

CitizenTed		2008-01-21 11:42:14 PM

I'm sure that thing is all ultra-farking cool - until the mercury hits about 40F (5C). Then the hotties would run off with your car and you'd be left alone to freeze your non-insulated butt off.

RUSH'N_ATTACK		2008-01-21 11:42:27 PM

Shadow Blasko: the_cnidarian: Where are the wheels?

Mobile homes don't need wheels. They dont call them that because they are "mobile"

Mobile Homes are named so because James Sweet moved his Post WW2 "Baby boomer starter home" fabrication facility to Mobile, Alabama.

/The More you know.

Mobile, Alabama is pronounced Mo-beel you farktard.

Gyrfalcon		2008-01-21 11:42:59 PM

Oh. My. God.

Everything in 1971 was exactly that color...even the women's hair.

They didn't need wheels, because in the future, we were supposed to be towing our mobile homes around behind our flying cars. Then you could fly away from any oncoming tornadoes.

Shadow Blasko		2008-01-21 11:45:25 PM

Gyrfalcon: Everything in 1971 was exactly that color...even the women's hair.

I think we still have a "coppertone" dishwasher around here somewhere.

Better than that damned avocado craze of the late 70's

steve_s		2008-01-21 11:46:33 PM

There is a Futuro house in Pensacola Beach, Florida. They put it put it on top of another building. It looks mighty cool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:UFOhousepensacola.JPG

In Dearborn Michigan at the Henry Ford Museum they have the one of the only two prototype Dymaxion pre-fab houses, designed by Buckminster Fuller in 1948, He also tried to popularize dome shaped buildings in the 60's after building pre fab houses in the shape of grain silo for use in in the middle east during WWII.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_house

ruta		2008-01-21 11:48:42 PM

With all the carefully insulated and sealed fiberglass plus a steamy sauna built in I wonder if these things weren't just mold farms after a few months.