Welcome Dave and Kate
Great Website - you for sure should be looking in to the Vintage Units - they just have the flavour for down home camping and fun.
Although the new 75th Bambi - is so very much like the combined Caravel/GlobeTrotter of the 67- 69's
Our is pretty much original except for the usual functional replacements and soft goods like curtains and cushions.
If you hunt long enough you can find a nice one in good shape - if you are willing to pay a little extra - but if you are looking at a new Bambi then the higher prices for the better condition Vintage should not phase you.
We are just west of you in South Bay Stoney Lake - a short trip down Hwy 7 or take the back roads near Algoquin Park and then South towards Apsley.
There are a lot of People into Airstreams in the "Eastern" region - but they all belong to one Unit - Ontario Unit - well our membership will lapse with them this year but we are staying with WBCCI. Went to a couple of Rallies and a few other functions - All nice people but their idea of camping is arena tarmak parking lots with 30 amp and satelite dish set up as being the first priorty - the next is food -which is not so bad
but the Unit is so big(70+ trailers at each function) that you feel like you are in a "soupline" for every meal - or better yet an organized sports dinner with all the INDOOR round tables......But for many of the older members - that is there thing! and who are we to change it.
What is desparately needed in this neck of the woods would be a new unit with either vintage units or leave it open for the "currently looking" members as well as those with new Airstreams that have a passion for the history of their camper.
Anyway if you are looking to check out some vintage units we have two - one is under repair and smells as vintage as she looks
and the other just a few more little touches we want to do - she is going up on the market possibly this summer - but not 100% sure yet. Toying between the 26' Overlander and the 21'GlobeTrotter and which one will be the keeper - we love the layout of the GlobeTrotter and the open roomy dinette - bathroom a little small and to hang out in it for a month with 2 big dogs can get a bit much. She is light and easy to tow into small places. The Overlander is 8 years older and has a real vintage look to her that caught our eye. It is thinner, easy to see when trailering, but the windows are small and low giving a little bit of a closed in feel to it. The couch system although missing in this trailer is just not our cup of tea - much rather make couches that double as beds and also seats for a dinette table - gives you lots of room should bad weather hit the weekend and you retire to an afternoon of cards and
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Happy looking! (You can see pics of both in the member photo section GT6921)
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