Everyone should know that the President of the United States flies in a Boeing 747 called Air Force One. Many people might also know that the vice president rides in a separate plane called Air Force Two that is usually a Boeing 757. So just how far down does the presidential line of succession do we have to go before we hit an Airstream? Well, apparently not that far. Air Force Six.
We live in an older house built in the 1920s. Unlike today, people back then did not subscribe to the ‘bigger is better’ mantra that dominates today’s capitalistic society. So we live in a sub-1000 square foot home with a modest garage set in the rear of the property. That gives us a long and narrow driveway to park our Airstream in.
This photo shows how the driveway looks before the new fence and gate were installed. The old fence is on the right with the jasmine bush on it. On the opposite side is the property line with our neighbor’s side yard.
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People have asked us about the insulation in the Airstream on a few occasions. Since we have not owned a ton of other trailers, it is hard for me to compare with others. But I could comment on how our experiences have been having traveled through various weather conditions in Read more…
Okay, that title is only partially true. Because there is no real replacement for doing things yourself. I am talking about learning everything there is to know on that brand spanking new Airstream you just mortgaged the next 10 to 15 years of your life on. But if you want to get some seriously good tips on how to use that silver thing on your driveway, this is probably the best way to start.
Finally, as many of you might be starting to rejoice once you hear this, we are at the end of our Modernism Week Vintage Trailer Show series. This is officially the last featured vintage trailer of the series and soon we will move on to posts focused around us that promises to be much less interesting.
If you had $65,000 to drop on a vintage trailer, you might want to pay good attention to this one. This is a 1950 Airfloat Land Yacht coming in at 24 feet long. They certainly do not make them like this anymore.
Today’s featured trailer comes to us via the dudes from Funky Junk Farms. Actually, they are also the folks that brought us the International Harvester. This Westcraft Tahoe trailer is interesting but so are the guys from Funky Junk Farms out of Altadena, California.
We are towards the home stretch here with the vintage trailer show series from Palm Springs. Some of you might be a little tired of all the aluminum-clad travel trailers so here is something different for a change: A custom-made 1960 International Harvester Housecar.
Ahem, stop looking at the girl with the letterman’s jacket. We are talking about the blue truck here.
The trailers featured at the vintage trailer show range anywhere from being hard-to-find, mint, factory original trailers to fully-restored beauties with modern day amenities. Mona and Doug’s 1969 Tradewind would fall under the latter category. You certainly would not have the slightest idea of what this trailer has been through in its 40+ years of life as it is now a thing of beauty. The reality is that an unimaginable amount of blood, sweat and tears (lots of cash, too, no doubt) have turned this former junk yard dog into a People’s Choice Award winner.
Recently we were asked by RVParking.com to write a few paragraphs for a piece they were doing for their blog about the new Airstream Eddie Bauer Edition. If you have been reading our blog, you would have noticed that we wrote a post specifically on that topic a few weeks ago. Read more…
Continuing with the rest of the vintage trailers at the 2011 Palm Springs Modernism Week Vintage trailer show is a wonderfully redone Spartan Manor from 1948. Founded in 1928 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Spartan was originally an aircraft company. Shocking, right? It produced aircrafts for the first 17 years of its existence before it decided to get into the RV business.
One of the cool things about going to a vintage trailer rally is that some times you get to see some of the rarest of rare trailers. One example is the awesome Bowlus Road Chief I blogged about two weeks ago and another one is this 1948 Trailwind Airstream.
