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+Xplorer 21 History from http://xplorer21.com/history.htm
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+Ray Frank, a farmer with a strong automotive and aircraft engineering background, began building motor homes for his family in rural Michigan in the mid-fifties. In 1958, with the assistance of several business owners in Brown City, he launched a new enterprise, Frank Motor Homes. The first units were on the available Dodge truck chassis of the day. Eventually Frank worked with Chrysler to develop their first true motor home chassis and eventually these became known at the "Dodge Motor Home".
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+In 1962 Frank Motor Homes built a prototype unit with a steel frame and a molded fiberglass body. The body was molded in two 27 foot-long halves and seamed down the middle. Several other parts of the motor home were molded units. The Franks sold their company in 1963 to two businessmen who would later rename the company Travco and continue to build motor homes on the Dodge chassis.
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+After his sale to Travco, Mr. Frank started work on his vision of a small, self-contained motor home for two. These units, named Cruiseaire, were built on a Chevrolet chassis but production ended after only 7 were built.
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+His next venture was to create a small motor home that would be easy to drive, park, and would fit into a standard garage. Building on the Dodge A108 van, these motor homes were compact, stylish and had very efficient interiors. The roof and rear section of the body were made of molded fiberglass using a foam-core construction technique. Called the Xplorer 21, these units were built in 1969 and 1970 on this chassis and were really the start of the true van-conversion market.
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+In 1971, Dodge changed their van platform to the B-Series and Xplorer continued to build more models on this new platform. Mr. Frank retired in the late 1970s and his family continued operation of Xplorer until 1995 when the company was sold out of the family. Xplorer continues today as a builder of high-quality innovative motor homes.