Article: At a crossroads.(Business)

Byline: Tim Christie The Register-Guard

JUNCTION CITY - In 1968, four friends pooled their wealth - about $20,000 in cash, two pickup trucks and a prototype camper - and started Caribou Manufacturing Co.

The company started out building campers of aluminum and wood that fit on the back of pickup trucks. A few years later, they bought a van chassis and built an integrated camper on the back, sold under a new brand: Monaco.

After one of the partners, Bob Lee, was ousted by the others, he formed his own company, which he dubbed Country Camper, the name lifted from a Barbie doll play set. He later changed the name to Country Coach.

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