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Pineapples
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TRAILER FOR SALE!
In addition to sharing the samples from their
collections, many people also restore trailers for sale. In
fact, Dayton confessed that he really hates camping, but he
got into vintage trailers four years ago because his wife
wanted a 1958 Airstream for sentimental reasons. He had so
much trouble finding one that he realized it would make a
good business. Prior to this he restored hot rods. Cindy and
Bob also sell a few each year, as do Pam and Don and many
others.
Buyers enjoy the sentimental value and the fun
of restoring the trailers. In addition, most are easy and
inexpensive to maintain, increase rather than decrease in
value, are lighter to haul, and look great towed behind a
classic car or truck. You never know what you'll find at these
shows. A Prevost (a large, luxury bus-style motorhome) was
parked among the vintage trailers. Well, it was turquoise
and for sale at a reduced price - only a quarter of a million
dollars!
MORE VINTAGE TRAILERS
& RESOURCES
Although the glistening silver Airstream is the
most familiar vintage trailer, there are many other brands
and colors. Some people prefer traditional restoration; others
like to use their imagination like an artist's palette. There
were red, orange, yellow trailers. One little teardrop had
been given a wood finish. One little trailer had a window
box full of geraniums painted on the wall above the front
hitch. One 23-foot Westcraft Coronado (circa 1950) had been
used as a permanent house trailer. The owners gutted the entire
inside and were planning to install a traveling style bathroom,
kitchen and other amenities.
An interesting book is Silver
Palaces: America's Streamlined Trailers .
Photographer Douglas Keister has included more than 300 images
of classic travel trailers from the '30s, '40, '50s and '60s.
Some vintage trailer links are:
Tin
Can Tourists
Airstream
Vintage Travel Trailer Link Library
Vintage
Trailer Links
Southern
California Teardrops
You no longer have to watch reruns of the "Andy
Griffith Show" or "Leave it to Beaver" to step
back into time. Here's an invitation to a rally from the Southern
California Touring Teardrops (S.C.T.T.):
A
beautiful weekend of vintage Americana and old time camping
fun awaits you as we fall back through time to a place where
Opie Taylor still lived in Mayberry, ice cream was still
a nickel, and you could still take your sweetie to the drive-in.
Hawaiian shirts, poodle skirts, Hula hoops, leisure suits,
TV dinners, Vegas Winners, Seein' Ronald at the new McDonalds,
Gettin' kicks on Route 66! It was all part of fun in America
and that's the theme for this year's trip. If you remember
it, we want to see it. Bring back those great memories of
times past and share them with us.
Happy travels!
Alice
Zyetz
8/4/06
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