Airstream sightings

[Minnie's Mate]

Originally Posted by ROBERTSUNRUS

Hi, No, No, No, The landing gears are retracted!

I thought "your axles are shot" was supposed to be the initial response to any vintage Airstream's first photo posting on these forums! Some kind of greeting or something.

[safari57]

Originally Posted by Minnie's Mate

I thought "your axles are shot" was supposed to be the initial response to any vintage Airstream's first photo posting on these forums! Some kind of greeting or something.

It is secret code for "Wow, did you ever get a deal on that puppy. Glad to have you on board".

After hearing this the new owner is supposed to say "yeah, we stole it from the old guy who was sadly on his last legs and once we scrape those three red letters off the front we'll polish the old girl up"

To which the knowledgeable AirForums member is supposed to say "Here, let me help"

Life is fun, isn't it?

Barry

[funkill]

I thought "your axles are shot" was supposed to be the initial response to any vintage Airstream's first photo posting on these forums! Some kind of greeting or something.

Originally Posted by safari57

It is secret code for "Wow, did you ever get a deal on that puppy. Glad to have you on board".

Oh - thank dog.... I didn't initially recognize the warm welcome..... But I am learning... neat forum... I recall riding with my grandparents whene I was about 10 and whenever they saw another AS, they'd scramble for the book to look up the numbers.

[ROBERTSUNRUS]

Originally Posted by Minnie's Mate

I thought "your axles are shot" was supposed to be the initial response to any vintage Airstream's first photo posting on these forums! Some kind of greeting or something.

Hi,
I was afraid to get that kind of initial greeting, [and sales pitch] so I bought a brand new trailer.

[Jaxon]

Had been browsing listings for land in and around Ft. Davis, TX and lo & behold... an Airstream & SOB on 6+ acres... notice which one got the "crutches"...

Davis Mountains Realty

[GreatPumpkin]

Originally Posted by Jaxon

Had been browsing listings for land in and around Ft. Davis, TX and lo & behold... an Airstream & SOB on 6+ acres... notice which one got the "crutches"...

Davis Mountains Realty

Davis Mountains Resort on Chiracahua Crest

Since when is scrubland and two red-neck abodes a "resort"

Only $33K for your dream home-away-from-home on 6 acres!

[Isadora]

Originally Posted by Jaxon

Had been browsing listings for land in and around Ft. Davis, TX and lo & behold... an Airstream & SOB on 6+ acres... notice which one got the "crutches"...

Davis Mountains Realty

I'd take it just for the view and the Airstream...the SOB has got to go. Solar for power, don't know about the water????

Heck, they want $36k for the 3 acre lot behind me, with drainage for the entire village running thru it, which makes half of it unusable, no services to it, just an empty acreage with lots of scrub trees and chunks of concrete that somebody used for fill! And the neighborhood is just average! That one sounds like a bargain!

[Sixty3TW4US]

Hi All, If you ever make it to San Diego Ca. The Miramar Marine Base off the 15 freeway has an rv lot on the east end of the base. You can see it from the 15. Of coarse there are alot of SOB's. It is a new lot and as it began to fill I saw 1 AS, then the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, even an Argosy. One would have to stop to spot them all.

[Jaxon]

Originally Posted by GreatPumpkin

Since when is scrubland and two red-neck abodes a "resort"

Since Hollywood discovered it (and Bubba got a raise at the truck stop) . Guess you don't know much about the area... used to be the sale of land there was determined on how much they'd pay you to take it off their hands ...

Ever since the hippity-hip of Hollywood & NYC "discovered" it, folks are fetchin' a pretty penny for the land.

Actually, those 'red-neck abodes' are for hunting... real boondockin'.

[Isadora]

Spotted this old Airstream near Diamond, Mo. today and stopped to look, it is a a vintage auto sales. No id on it except a small plate that has Airstream, model # 47111, serial #1062, built by Wallace K Byam, Metropolitan Airport, Los Angeles, California. A 1947 Airstream something. Might be for sale, if anybody is interested I have a phone #. Shell looks pretty good, no really major dents but needs some frame work (the tongue is loose from the bottom) and the floor and axles need replaced, and some broken windows. It is full of stuff, and locked, so couldn't really see the inside. Pretty rough tho I think. The owner said he wasn't going to do anything with it for a couple of weeks, he just got it and a 63 tradewind from an estate sale and is waiting on the title transfers. He did tow the '47 home and he said it towed well, in spite of the tongue being loose! Pictures, and one of the Tradewind, which is in pretty rough shape but restorable.

[DEITZ645]

Originally Posted by Isadora

Spotted this old Airstream near Diamond, Mo. today and stopped to look, it is a a vintage auto sales. No id on it except a small plate that has Airstream, model # 47111, serial #1062, built by Wallace K Byam, Metropolitan Airport, Los Angeles, California. A 1947 Airstream something. Might be for sale, if anybody is interested I have a phone #. Shell looks pretty good, no really major dents but needs some frame work (the tongue is loose from the bottom) and the floor and axles need replaced, and some broken windows. It is full of stuff, and locked, so couldn't really see the inside. Pretty rough tho I think. The owner said he wasn't going to do anything with it for a couple of weeks, he just got it and a 63 tradewind from an estate sale and is waiting on the title transfers. He did tow the '47 home and he said it towed well, in spite of the tongue being loose! Pictures, and one of the Tradewind, which is in pretty rough shape but restorable.

Isadora,
From Fred's Airstream Archives, it looks to be a 47 Airstream Liner 22'. At least the pictures look similar...

Fred's Airstream Archives - 1947 Airstream Liner Travel Trailer (A)

[JulianneJ]

400 miles into 455 mile my trip from Surprise, AZ to Durango, Co I spotted an Aistream on HWY 160, near the Ute Casino. Just caught a glimpse but did get the flash of the headlights from the other driver.

[Airstream 65]

Spotted this trailer outside the London Armouries in London, Ontario

[05ModPod]

Originally Posted by Airstream 65

Spotted this trailer outside the London Armouries in London, Ontario

Wow I bet that we have some of the pieces to that exact trailer. If it is an 89 or 87 that was stripped out by an RV place in St. Thomas??? We were told that two Airstreams were decked out to become mobile recruitment offices that would be traveling around Canada.

Still have some of the parts - like the cabinet handles with the Airstream engraved in them....somewhere in our masses of parts - which I am sure we will get to unloading over the winter or early spring.....we need to purge as soon as the new gararge is built..

[05ModPod]

...and here are our sightings from our recent Holiday to the Region 1 Rally and our week before and week after the rally.

First we saw this MOHO patiently waiting service I think along route? along Lake Champlain Vermont.

Next in one of our days at the Rally in PEI we were off for a tour of North Rustico and found an Argosy sitting non challantly in the backyard...Someone else took a similar photo and focused in on the Trailer - but being the artsy type - I saw it as a background element with the lobster traps defining it's view and possible purpose - to house the extra workers that come in for the season.




Our third sighting was this beauty on Cape Breton Island, on our way up to do the Cabot Trail tour....

Honorable mention - was this Avion. We thought it ironic that not half an hour before Peter and I were talking about Truck campers and that they have dropped off considerably in the market. And thought them along with the roadtrek style moho's would be great to do the trail with. (oopss yes the Airstream Sprinter too - but I just could not imagine the tippy feeling I would have with a thin and high van)

And no picture as I was driving - but we saw a late 2000's Safari I think with a bike rack on the back heading East as we were rushing home on Sunday in the Trois River Area of Quebec on Hwy#20 I think or there abouts anyway. Flashed my lights but nothing back and no numbers either - so just another kiss of Airstream down the road....

[Isadora]

Originally Posted by Isadora

Spotted this old Airstream near Diamond, Mo. today and stopped to look, it is a a vintage auto sales. No id on it except a small plate that has Airstream, model # 47111, serial #1062, built by Wallace K Byam, Metropolitan Airport, Los Angeles, California. A 1947 Airstream something. Might be for sale, if anybody is interested I have a phone #. Shell looks pretty good, no really major dents but needs some frame work (the tongue is loose from the bottom) and the floor and axles need replaced, and some broken windows. It is full of stuff, and locked, so couldn't really see the inside. Pretty rough tho I think. The owner said he wasn't going to do anything with it for a couple of weeks, he just got it and a 63 tradewind from an estate sale and is waiting on the title transfers. He did tow the '47 home and he said it towed well, in spite of the tongue being loose! Pictures, and one of the Tradewind, which is in pretty rough shape but restorable.

Someone thought it might be a Curtis Wright, however, a little research into this trailer found that there were only a couple of dozen trailers made with the Wallace M Byam name following his partnership with Curtis Wright--and this one has a label that says Airstream and not Curtis Wright, unlike the picture of the 1947 Liner, which does not have that label. Hope this link works, it explains it. Got to be a pretty rare trailer.
47Liner1047

[Aage]

Saw it parked in a SOB dealer of new and used, looked awfully lonely.

I stepped it off to be a 31" (I think), and guessing by the colours inside, and the one digit that is legible in the plate,I think it's a '68.

One of the image carries the VIN. I can't find that post that gives the breakdown, anybody know the year from the VIN?



Those 30+" units shore air long!


Even still has a legible WBCCI number.

[soldiermedic]

Aage,

That looks like a 70's unit to me.

Steve

[overlander64]

Based upon the date of manufacture 12-9(?) my suspicion is that it is likely a 1980. I don't believe that the Excella II designation was used until sometime in the mid to late 1970s.

Kevin

[vswingfield]

I agree about the '80s estimate. See the photos of my '83 Excella at http://www.airforums.com/photos/brow...d=17830&page=2. The small trailer in my avatar is a '68. It doesn't have the wrap around windows like my '83, so it's earlier. It looks like it is in great shape from the photos.

Originally Posted by Aage

Saw it parked in a SOB dealer of new and used, looked awfully lonely.

I stepped it off to be a 31" (I think), and guessing by the colours inside, and the one digit that is legible in the plate,I think it's a '68.

One of the image carries the VIN. I can't find that post that gives the breakdown, anybody know the year from the VIN?



Those 30+" units shore air long!


Even still has a legible WBCCI number.