Steinbeck's famous camper from Travels With Charley:
“I wanted a three-quarter ton pickup truck, and on this truck I wanted a little house, built like the cabin of small boat”.The truck, we know now, was a new model GMC, with a V6 engine, an automatic transmission, and an oversized generator. The camper was provided by the Wolverine Camper Company of Glaswin, Michigan.The truck was delivered in August, 1961, and, because of satiric remarks from friends was named Rocinante, after Don Quixote’s horse.After Steinbeck's Travels with Charley ended, Rocinante was put up for sale in New York where she was purchased by Mr. William Plate for light work on Maiden Point Farm on the Maryland coast.In February of 1990, the Plates donated Rocinante to the National Steinbeck Center in Steinbeck’s home town of Salinas California. The truck was shipped to Salinas and was “lovingly restored to its original glory by Gene Cochetti”.
And If Live At The Fillmore had been out while Mr. Steinbeck was driving around from coast to coast, I'm sure he would have had it on. Maybe.MP3: Allman Brothers - Done Somebody Wrong