Gaucho or Sofa bulk up?

[stephenh2]

Well there you have it, it's a "Travel Lounge"!

Stephen

[MaxAB]

Originally Posted by ArtStream

Do you really have a Gaucho in your Airstream?

Gaucho can refer to:

• Gaucho (Gaúcho in Portuguese, Cowboy in English), a word for a South American cattle herder.

Now depending on your gender and marital status this might be a welcome find, of course I would prefer a Goucha or Cowgirl, but neither was found in my Airstream.
I do keep looking though!

• Gauchos are a style of very flowing and loose fitting, flared pants with an elastic waitband, commonly worm by young dancers, but also worn casually.

Again, a young female dancer would have been a nice find. I bought a used rig and old loose fitting cloths were found during the cleanup of my, but what I found fell more into the category of bloomers.

• Gaucho, a trade name for the insecticide Imidacloprid.

There was an Ammonia aroma one night, but that turned out to be the Dometic refrigerator failing. I did find some cleaners under the sink like Ajax and bleach, but thankfully no Gaucho.

• Gaucho, an album by Steely Dan.

While I like Steely Dan, I'm not familiar with this particular album. It has not turned up in the rig.

• The UCSB Gauchos, name of sports teams of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Clearly this would be pushing the GVW of my 28 foot Excella.
Just the mention of finding a sports team squatting in your Airstream, would undoubtedly, start the Airstream community on a heated and passionate debate on axel replacement, loading and pre-loading, drum brakes vs disk, beefed up frames, tire pressure, and the 70's.
Of course an astute owner, just by looking at the angle of the torsion suspension, would know that a sports team was lurking in the coach.
Therefore, even if the University of California, Santa Barbara, Gauchos sports team were living in my 28 foot Excella, I'd PM someone first.

GMC Gaucho a mid 70's full-sized van model produced by General Motors
Nope, no 70's full size van was found in or around my rig.

• Gaúcho, a person born in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul
  • Gaúcho, a Brazilian football player.
  • Renato Gaúcho
  • Ronaldinho Gaúcho

No Portuguese speaking natives of Rio Grande do Sul, popped out of the under bed bins.

No football players fumbled with the wheel chocks.

Renato or Ronaldinho were not found, but a VCR tape of "Nothing but trouble" staring Chevy Chase was discovered wedged between the empty space next to the water heater.
Now, despite my best efforts, a Gaucho has not shown up in my Airstream? What I have found is a sofa that folds out into a bed, but after sleeping on it for one night I did wake up a little Gracho?

Michael

Definitions courtesy of Wikipedia


Michael is a fulltime "Artist at Large" living, working and traveling in his 1995 28 ft. Excella.
Welcome to Camp Stream

Michael:

Nice job on the Goucho research! Good hearing from you, brother. How was your trip down to Mexico after the 4CU Quartzite Rally last November?

I've got your prints up just below the speakers on either side of my Goucho... Pix attached... Anyhow, this is a Goucho discussion; I've attached some before/after snaps of it. I pulled it out and over to a local upholster shop - bought FAA aircraft-approved fire retardant fabric and the dude hooked me up!

Headed to Burning Man this year? - - I'll be missing it until I get back from the sand box; send pictures if you make it there!

Take care,

Art

[Brian Hobin]

Hello, As Events have turned out we still do not have the gaucho repaired. Reason is 1) I am lazily confused.
2) We saw a model with the gaucho out and two comfortable lean back chairs in its place. Wow!
The latter really looked good but what was more important was the comfort which they were.
I appreciate the photos of the excellent looking gaucho above but what is bothersome to us is the age of our Airstream and the costs for the chairs; a new blukhead over the batteries etc. ----to be continued.
Regards
Brian

[TeamD]

Love this do you have a side sofa diagram?

[TG Twinkie]

Where I come from they called it a "Davenport". I removed all of the above from the Argosy and installed a dinette;
Or is it a breakfast nook?

Davenport; Chesterfield; Couch; Gaucho: I forgot "Sofa"

[mapley3]

The cushion on our front lounge was a one-piece item that we simply replaced with a much thicker, hinged "futon type" cushion. The tricky part was getting the arms out so the fabric could be replaced with matching fabric. Your's is probably too new to have the damage mine had to the wood frame supporting the arms. This worked just fine for camping but, when we went full-time, we wanted more comfort. I removed the whole thing and replaced it with a dual-reclining love seat. Not only is this sooooo comfortable but, also, it makes getting to the fuse box, battery cover, and converter really easy.

[mapley3]

ps. & BTW, getting rid of the old lounge was easier than I expected. The almost-new futon mattress went immediately to someone suffering from collapsing cushions. People stood in line to get the front panel with the roll-up doors. The arm support frames went to the kindling pile. The plywood disappeared? The metal frame was the hardest to get rid of but, after a couple of weeks behind the barn, it was totally parted out. Amazing !! Like it never existed.

[Aage]

Originally Posted by TeamD

Love this do you have a side sofa diagram?

I think this is what you are looking for. Good luck!

[Silverwanabe]

I thought is was called a sofa bed.

But, has been called a Fifth Avenue Lounge in the 70's.

Or called a Front Lounge in 94 or Sofa in 2008.

[TeamD]

I saw this recently and I am considering converting our front sofa...gaucho... to this family size couch!

And thank you so much for the side bed.. couch... gaucho...diagram!

We just started cleaning up a 1968 Trade Winds and I am so excited! I too will be reseraching upholstery shops. I found some great blogs but still over my head!

Susie

[stgerdonly]

In Regards to the Gaucho design...How does this thing fit together?

Looking at our '78 Argosy 30, the frame is there, the arms are too and the upper filler part is attached to the wall under the window. But the cushion was replaced with a futon, the plywood (luan) is new and seems to make the sleeper lay "side ways" not "length ways". So I guess the question is-Is the bed actually turned side ways to the front in use?

Also-Is there a second piece of luan attached to the back foam? If not, what's supporting the weight and the cushion as a sofa or a bed? (in the 30 ft the water tank is under the aluminum frame.)
And does the curved part of the cushion sit upon the filler when this is set up as a sofa?

A picture of an original underside of the cushions would help clarify i guess. I have no real frame of reference for the actual workings, so I'm confused.