[mkeith54]

Dollar for Dollar the Airstream is a better buy. In most other brands the construction is made of sticks and wood. This means once a leak starts basically the trailers demise has begun. In the Airstream the outer wall is aluminium along with the interior and the studs in the walls, therefore nothing to dry rot if it gets wet except for the floor. The interior appointments tend to be better in the airstreams as Airstream has always been a high end trailer.
The one drawback to an earlier 70's Airstream is that there is no gray water tank, so you have to get a blue tote tank to drain the gray water in if you are not hooked to a sewer.
When the wife and I were looking for a TT it was for a one time shot and we looked long and hard at lots of different brands. We wond up with a 75 Argosy (painted Airstream); every other used trailer we looked at had dry rot and water damage, not to mention smelling musty. Our one time trip has turned into a love affair with the trailer and the adventures that go with it.

Mike