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Originally Posted by Andy R  1961 was the first year of production for the 16' Bambi trailer. 498 units were made (250 in California & 248 in Ohio). The 2 remaining years that Airstream built Bambi trailers, they made most of them in Ohio (roughly 150 in Ohio & 35 in California per year). A total of 866 were made during their production run in the 60's. Many consider these early 60s Bambi trailers as one of the most sought after by vintage trailer collectors.California built Bambi serial numbers will start with a 16TDSSxxxx. The first trailer built started with 1600 at the end of the serial number. For example, mine is 16TDSS1728, so that means she is the 128th Bambi built in California...
Ohio built Bambis will have I61T. The 61 changes to match the year produced. For example if a Bambi had a serial that began with I63T then it was a 1963 model. Unlike the California models, they did not start at 1600. So serial number I61T235 was the 235th Bambi built in Ohio in 1961...
The above information was provided by RJ Dial and others from discussions on various list servers in the past.
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Andy |
Hello everyone!
We just bought a '61 Bambi and we think, based on the information provided above, that it was the 147th trailer manufactured in California (16TDL1747).
We saw her last Saturday and fell in love with her.
We've posted images below.
We're so excited and can't wait to start updating her interior appointments and polishing her up!
We have two questions so far, although we're sure we'll have many more as we go along.
1) Can we strip off the interior paint, which is a flat white (latex, we think) not zolatone, and get to aluminum that we can polish? The paint on the front door has a few chips and it looks like it's made of aluminum or some silver metallic material.
2) Was there an original foldout stair/step assembly?
Any information or insight would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!