That's the Steinbeck washer from "Travels with Charley."  He had a custom made GMC camper and travelled the US in 1960.   I highly recommend it, but keep in mind the time it was written, it's not PC by today's standards.  A good book to keep in any Vanagon camper. (Vanagon content.)

Stuart 

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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Don Hanson
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 6:24 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Threadjack...was camping ice cream added automatic stuff ....

  On self-powered stuff like the hamster wheel ice cream:   We do laundry
in our 'automatic" washer, a sheet rock joint compound bucket, when traveling...Just toss your dirty clothes into one of those small buckets with a snap on lid and add some water and cold water soap..Drive on...When you get to camp, rinse em and hang em out to dry...clean as a whistle...especially if you are traveling somewhere like Baja or some of our western back roads....Looks good, too, like real hippy stuff...

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:

> A while back someone asked about how to get ice cream while camping.  
> At that time, I just suggested a small, manual crank ice cream freezer 
> like I have, and which I have used while camping on quite a few occasions.
>
> Here is another way, if you can find the coffee cans.  I have coffee 
> cans that are as much as 30-40 years old that I use for various 
> things, but I don't see them in stores nowadays, not even the ones 
> described in this article.  Of course, you would need a surface that 
> the cans would roll on, also, not always available when camping.
>
>
> http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/jul/30/celebrate-summer-by-makin
> g-coffee-can-ice-cream/
>
> mcneely
>