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04-16-2007, 09:49 PM
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2006 25' Safari
San clemente
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1955 Airstream
I just purchased a 1955 Airstream, 19 ft. I am trying to find the name for the trailer, any ideas?
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04-16-2007, 09:55 PM
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Rivet Master 
1979 23' Safari
1954 29' Liner
Orange
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Originally Posted by SC Air
I just purchased a 1955 Airstream, 19 ft. I am trying to find the name for the trailer, any ideas? |
If anyone would know its Fred 47weewind. Have you checked the Vintage Airstream Home photo archives?
Bill
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Bill Kerfoot, WBCCI/VAC/CAC/El Camino Real Unit #5223
Just my personal opinion
1973 Dodge W200 PowerWagon, 1977 Lincoln Continental, 2014 Dodge Durango
1979 23' Safari, and 1954 29' Double Door Liner Orange, CA
https://billbethsblog.blogspot.com/
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04-16-2007, 11:54 PM
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Rivet Master
1948 16' Wee Wind
1953 21' Flying Cloud
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Originally Posted by SC Air
I just purchased a 1955 Airstream, 19 ft. I am trying to find the name for the trailer, any ideas? |
The 18 footers in 1955 were called Globe Trotters, built only in Ohio that year according to my source. Post the serial number and I can check it against a name and length. How are you measuring the trailer, body length or overall length?
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Denver, Colorado - WBCCI Unit 24
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Airstream Life "From the Archives"
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04-17-2007, 06:52 AM
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Always Airstreaming!
2005 22' Safari
1960 24' Tradewind
Anytown
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Originally Posted by SC Air
I just purchased a 1955 Airstream, 19 ft. I am trying to find the name for the trailer, any ideas?
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Post the serial numbers and you will get immediate response as to where it was built and what you got!
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Sandi Gould
NEU New England Unit
Airstream Life Magazine
Proud Member of WBCCI
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AIR #17099
2009 Silverado 2500HD
2004 22' Safari
1960 24' Tradewind
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04-17-2007, 03:48 PM
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Rivet Master
Massachusetts
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Location: 1964 17' Bambi II
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Originally Posted by SC Air
I just purchased a 1955 Airstream, 19 ft. I am trying to find the name for the trailer, any ideas?
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Do you have any photos you could post?
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WBCCI Region One
Attitude is the only difference between ordeal and adventure
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04-17-2007, 10:33 PM
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1 Rivet Member
2006 25' Safari
San clemente
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Thanks Bill, this is fun trying to find out the exact information. Tommy Green gave me Fred Caldwells e mail and I asked him about my trailer, he asked the serial number, and he told me it really is a 1954 or possibly a 1953.
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04-18-2007, 01:19 AM
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Rivet Master
1951 21' Flying Cloud
1960 24' Tradewind
West Coast
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An interesting thing about the actual ages of the vintage trailers. I learned that before laws changed RV manufacturers and dealers were not shy about listing the year of the trailer when it first sold as the year of manufacture. Thus if a trailer happened to sit on a lot for a long time it wasn't necessarily sold in the year it was made.
In my trailers case it was sold to me as a 63 although I knew it was much older. When the trailer was imported into Canada, in 1963, they registered it as such versus reality, which is that it was made in 1951. I am working with DMV now to have that corrected but it's not an easy process.
Pictures of your new trailer would be great.
Thanks,
Barry
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04-18-2007, 05:58 AM
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Rivet Master
Massachusetts
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Originally Posted by SC Air
Thanks Bill, this is fun trying to find out the exact information. Tommy Green gave me Fred Caldwells e mail and I asked him about my trailer, he asked the serial number, and he told me it really is a 1954 or possibly a 1953. |
What is the serial number?
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Attitude is the only difference between ordeal and adventure
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04-18-2007, 09:32 AM
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Rivet Master
1979 23' Safari
1954 29' Liner
Orange
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Originally Posted by SC Air
Thanks Bill, this is fun trying to find out the exact information. Tommy Green gave me Fred Caldwells e mail and I asked him about my trailer, he asked the serial number, and he told me it really is a 1954 or possibly a 1953. |
WHERE ARE THE PICTURES?
Bill
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Bill Kerfoot, WBCCI/VAC/CAC/El Camino Real Unit #5223
Just my personal opinion
1973 Dodge W200 PowerWagon, 1977 Lincoln Continental, 2014 Dodge Durango
1979 23' Safari, and 1954 29' Double Door Liner Orange, CA
https://billbethsblog.blogspot.com/
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