Still Running / Yard and outdoors
No. 0103Yard and outdoors
c. 1976
Coleman Classic canvas tent
Coleman
Running about 50 years
Two poles, sixteen stakes, no rain fly needed
This Coleman Classic canvas tent is from the 1970s, 44 years old at the time of the post, and every original pole is intact. It was Dad's. He is careful with his gear and packed it away clean in the late 90s, and it came back out three years before the post in great shape. It needs no rain fly. Two adults can pitch it in under ten minutes, most of that spent driving 16 stakes. The canvas looks only a few years old. The seams show some wear, so they get rubbed with a stick of seam wax.
In the backcountry its owner uses a hammock. This is the car camping tent.
Retold from a post on r/BuyItForLife. Read the original



