Palm Springs

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Sometimes you run across a trailer that is in amazing condition and you just can’t believe that is is over 50 years old and it has not be restored. This 1959 Globetrotter 18 is just one of those.

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So not all vintage trailers at Modernism Week 2011 are about stayin true to its original form. In fact, some of them are beautifully done in an entirely modern way. And when they throw in free vodka tasting into the equation, I think we have a winner.

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