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Originally Posted by bspa
I know 70 years is a long time, but old Airstreams were sturdy, right? I would love to know if my grandparents' Airstream is still usable (of course, I would like to get it). Is there a registry that tracks back to the 1960s? They were Edwin and Edna Long. Lived in West Palm Beach, Florida. Thanks to anyone who has those old records and can give me an ID number.
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Were they members of the WBCCI? (did they have big red numbers on the upper part of the front of their trailer, if you remember?)
That number would belong to your grandparents (while they were members) not really to the trailer itself, so a later owner of the trailer might remove the number, though lots of vintage trailers still have the "ghost" of an old number visible if they haven't been stripped and polished.
If you know their WBCCI number, or you're certain of a range of years they were members, there are records at HQ and some historian hobbyists have membership records going back a long way, so you'd be able to get someone to look by name and year to find their number. Finding the trailer itself is likely to be MUCH harder if you don't know what happened to it... many states didn't issue titles for trailers back in the day, for example, so tracing its ownership might require a bit of luck.