Vintage Airstream

When I was a kid in the 50's, my dad bought a used Airstream travel trailer to replace our tents. It was quite a step up and several of his friends thought he was crazy, but we had a lot of fun with it over the years and it's still ready to go camping. Of course, that took some maintenance and rebuilding along the way. I bought it from him in the 70's and we also had lots of fun with it. The last few years we owned it, we didn't have time to put it on the road anymore. A nephew expressed interest and we sold it to him about 30-years after we bought it. With the help of vintageairstream.com, he was able to restore it so that it looks better and is stronger than it was the day Dad bought it. If this site had been around several years earlier, I might have tried restoring it myself. There are lots of links to others who can help with virtually any problem in that endeavor, but the initial help was great advice about how to move it safely to its new home. It's running gear needed work and they strongly urged us to put it on a trailer. When it was picked up, we took pictures of it and sent them to the site for their most popular feature, "The Model Archives." If you ever get the urge to restore a Vintage Airstream, you can go through hundreds of examples to see what's available. Why would you want to do that? In many ways, restoring a Vintage Airstream will yield the perfect trailer for your family. The great quantity of 50+ year old Airstreams still on the road attest to that. They hold their value better than any other make and, because they're still so popular, you can still get a surprising number of parts for them. There are businesses all over the country that will do the dirty work for you, if you'd rather not do it yourself. Even though we've parted with ours, we still visit it annually and are delighted it's in good hands. Their kids want to keep it when they grow up. We're sure their great-grandpa would be smiling widely knowing that. Even if you're not interested in restoration, check this site out for the fun of it.