Category: Boler!

We’re always on the hunt and based on our own observations, we’re looking at something uncommon here. We’ve only documented a few in the last ten years and that’s of the thousands of little fibreglass trailers we’ve stumbled across. Research data confirms it too. Here’s a Beachcomber, not just a...

We’re always on Boler patrol, and when out for a walk keep our eyes open for our sometimes elusive quarry. Still, we find more than our share, and while having keen senses helps, in the end it’s mostly by dumb luck. In some instances, like here, it pays to be...

While on road trips, we take the occasional break, usually in a small town, and stretch our legs. Then as it happens, certainly more than it should, a little trailer appears and this example was captured captured heading northbound in Nanton (Alberta) on the number two. The busy highway runs...

Here’s one from back in 2019, a Boler found in a small town storage lot. It’s a photo that somehow slipped through the cracks and until now, had not seen the light of day. That’s how it goes sometimes where you’re dealing with an archive a billion photos deep (

Global News Boler: it’s one of our favourite little trailers spotted while channel surfing a couple years back and in the background of some news story playing out on the screen. It’s May 2020, height of the pandemic (first wave edition) and no doubt this topic, perhaps how it relates...

We came for the brutalish architecture and as it happens (fairly often too) our explorations lead to another random Boler discovery. We love when that happens! So there we were, coming back from photographing a really funky school (it looks like a military bunker – link further down), and on...

Walking about random Calgary neighbourhoods, as we’re apt to do, it’s almost guaranteed we’ll make a new Boler discovery. It happens almost every single time and case in point, the little trailer seen here, spotted by chance while out for a stroll. Based on our hit-ratio, it’s clear there’s a...

As often happens when we’re out for a walk, we’ll cross paths with a Boler. It’s never planned but each and every time it happens, the world for a moment, for us, becomes a better place. Never expected, but always welcome, it’s silly things that bring a smile. Thinking about...

A Boler is where you find it and more often than not this can be some random back lane. Case in point here, it’s a completely chance discovery spotted while out for a little stroll. We don’t generally walk alleys – that would be silly – but we do scan...

Fiber Stream? Never heard of them…until now that is. While back alley cruising (doing weird things again) we fully expect to come across a Boler or maybe a Trillium, but every now and then it’s a rare gem as happened here. We’re looking at a trailer that until this discovery...

Unexpected finds like this are the best. We’ve spoken of them before on this channel and it plays out like this. We might be driving around in search of who knows what with Boler spotting the last thing on our minds, we round a corner and there in front of...

It seems the further we get from the mountains the less we get to play the Boler Spotting Game. By the time we go as far east as Medicine Hat, seeing a little fibreglass trailer of any make is rare and so an event. That’s our experience anyway and with...

It’s always wonderful treat finding Bolers by chance. There you are wandering about doing whatever, your mind on something else, and rounding a corner right there in front of you, out of the blue, it’s a little egg trailer. Serendipity shows up and it’s pulling a little campers. Against the...

Here’s a random Boler discovery found during a social distancing, in-Calgary, bored-to-tears Covid lockdown walkabout. About the time of the first wave (so early 2020, yes we’re terminally behind in posting) we’d pick the most unlikely places to walk, to lessen the chance of bumping into too many people. With...

Our world’s magically populated with small fibreglass trailers (call it an obsession) and more pee-wee than most it’s the make seen here. We’re looking at a tiny Ventura made in Manitoba in the 1970s and given we’ve seen only a few tells us they’re not terribly common. It appears both...

Turn a corner and there’s Boler. Cruise down the highway and there’s a Boler. Take an after dinner walk and there’s a Boler. Each and every time that’s how it plays out and we never see them coming. Think of it like fishing and instead of a rod and reel,...

We came to look at the classic Cadillac we saw down this alley. Old cars are another passion (of many) and so if we see one we’ll often stop to check it out. With this chance spotting came a pleasant surprise and unseen from our original position it’s something special...

Sometimes a wrong turn becomes a right turn. Zigging when we should have zagged leads us down a dead-end road in little Exshaw Alberta to a most pleasant surprise. We’re in search of a spot with a clear view of the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks nearby with the hopes of...

One of the Team (unnamed) seems to have been blessed with a photographic memory when it comes to locations, but for the life of them, there was no recalling where this Boler was spotted. That was until late one night months later and completely out of the blue…CLICK! Funny how...

Always on Boler patrol, no matter the place or time, here’s a chance find in a small Alberta town. And with that bold colour, it’d be a hard one to miss. We’re out hanging with friends, we’ve getting to know some new to us back roads and here’s a vintage...

Here’s proof positive our “LFT – Little Fibreglass Trailer” spotting skills are presently on point and that’s in spite of everything else working less and less well as we age. The Boleradar is strong at BIGDoer.com. Here’s one well hidden at the far end of some alley, in the community...

Life is full of pleasant surprises, those special little gifts that come out of nowhere. That’s how it played out one extraordinary evening in the picturesque ghost town of Rowley Alberta. Joining close friends, we’re in town for the legendary Pizza Night (presently on hold account the buzzkill that is...

Taking cues from a well known Monty Python sketch (snicker…Mrs BJ Smegma) instructing one “how not to be seen” it’s a cute little Boler doing its best to go unnoticed. It’s a shy one, but can’t elude us. We have these special…let’s describe them as “abilities”…something called Boleradar, a sixth...

There’s the common fibreglass trailers, Bolers of course and most seen of all, Trilliums; and those less so, like a Ventura or Beachcomber. And then there’s ones spoken of in legend, little known (at least in this neck of the woods) that perhaps get spotted only once in a blue...

If we’re out somewhere and catch wind of a car show, we’ll make it a point to attend if we can. Who are we to resist the call of these vintage rides, all shiny and perfectly done up showroom new, with owners always willing to share a bit of history...

When it’s time for a break, sometimes a little stroll is just the prescription needed. It’s good for the mind and body, a way to unwind, rid one’s self of what ever problems are at hand and brings everything back into focus. No prescription drugs required, no alcohol, nothing difficult...

Here’s the first Boler posting of 2020, an overly dirty model b-1300 found completely by random in some south Calgary neighbourhood. Truth be told it was captured in late 2018, but as many of you know, we’re perpetually behind in getting these published. Keeping the lights on here at BIGDoer.com...

Capturing a Boler (Trillium, et al) on the move whilst driving is perhaps the most difficult challenge for those out hunting little fibreglass trailers. They’ll often come upon you quickly, almost always on the opposing lane, and rarely is the camera at the ready. So with that, capturing a “Highway...

Some times we just randomly wander older neighbourhoods in search of who knows what. It seems these communities always offer up something interesting to take in for us, and what ever it may be, we’re happy. There might some old building or church that captures our imagination, unique or vintage...

For reasons that can’t be fully explained, the city of Nelson BC is home to a disproportionate number of Bolers and other little fibreglass trailers from varied manufactures. Case in point here, three of the former and one of the latter, and a rare one at that, found while driving...