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startrekker2001 · 12-07-2002, 04:33 PM

My wife and I took a 3000 mile 64 day trip to Northern New York and eastern Connecticut and return to Palm Bay Florida. During the whole trip we saw one AS TT. It was a fairly new 34' Classic. That was in NE New York near Glens Falls. We were pretty excited, because we had noted the absence of AS trailers on the road. Here in Melbourne Florida there are two AS parks. Port O' Call which is closing in a couple of years due to the airport expansion and one other that I can't think of the name. In both there must be a couple hundred (consertive estimate) AS travel trailers and several AS motorhomes. BTW Port O' Call was featured on the cover of the July issue of Trailer Life.

canny_banjo_man · 12-29-2002, 09:01 AM

Hi Andy/RV Centre....
Yes I'll second U on that one, I saw LOTS on the day my Son & I met Edie & Brett. By the sounds of it they may just well MIGRATE to warmer FLORIDA...can't say as I blame them...infact we saw so many...I lost count...Chris.....

wb13798 · 12-29-2002, 09:27 PM

just returned from trip to texas about two thousand miles , we saw seven or eight trailers on the road and half a dozen parked in rv parks. also saw one silver bullet mh at walmart in shrevesport la . chatted with the owner and he had a nice crease on the lower side of the 345 that he blames on a barrier at circus circus in vegas. and he states he gets 13 miles per gal . also saw a fiberglass AS MH in missippi he about wore his light sw out flashing his light at the silver wennie as we went by. i thought he was nuts untill my wife said it was a AS mh . the newer fiberglass mh i dont see the roads were full of MHs going west on I-20. HUNTSVILLE HAS SIX SILVER BULLETS mhs THAT I KNOW. i put twenty thousand miles on mine this year. and fifteen last . and a friend of mine has a 290 and he put probably ten thousand on his. THEY ARE OUT THERE JUST GOT TOO LOOK.

autoist · 12-30-2002, 05:31 PM

WB13798....mine is one of the AS MH's ('96 Land Yacht LE) in Huntsville....actually, in Gurley...but, I've never seen any others here!
...oh, & there are 2 old trailers sitting out in front of a house on Old Gurley Pike between Mayesville & Gurley...both are single axles, one has oval rear window, one rectangular window...they never move...no tags either!

wb13798 · 12-30-2002, 05:37 PM

well my count only for classic air streams . now that you mention it i know where two newer airstream are . one of the classics is located in gurley but is is at present in a repair facility awating a window. it belongs to tom horn . do you know tom??

autoist · 12-31-2002, 09:49 AM

Name sounds familiar but can't say that I know him...mine sits at my hous in Big M Farms

jpurdy · 01-03-2003, 09:27 AM

well this one was not invisible. a classic motorhome 280 . it looked like a 1982 but I am not sure. It looked good.
the number on the coach was 13817(?) it was on I-75 heading north approaching I-285.
I am sure the driver was thinking about the wide open spaces but
it looked like it was moving a 15mph in Atlanta's 4pm traffic.
It made me want to be on the road also.

ALANSD · 01-03-2003, 10:58 AM

well at least someone has seen ME!!. My 1982 is 13617, and we were on the highway headed from Alabamaand the Fla panhandle.
I will post about the trip elsewhere, but while in Destin, Fla, we pulled into Henderson Beach State Park- and my son left on his bike for a cruise. He returned excited to have seen a 310 parked at the beach. I assumed they too were camping and went over to talk to the owner. They were pulling out, never to be seen by us again, just as I got to the main road....saw the tailights only. Or did I??? another Airstream apparition

jpurdy · 03-29-2003, 06:37 PM

well friday evening,3/28, I saw two airstreams each in there own misery on I-75 south of atlanta.
the first was from Tenn and just caught up in atlanta traffic. the number on the trailer was 14013(?) a classic I think. The second was from IL., a classic pulled by a esclade(Tahoe) doing about 75 in the middle lane .
this was interesting as they were being passed on the right by several semi's that were infront of me. all the semi's put at least 1/2 of the width onto the shoulder when passing and were pushing the trailer and of course the esclade over to the left lane. the esclade never slowed. I guess they like the white knuckle grip...

59toaster · 03-29-2003, 07:26 PM

I have seen several this past week. All headed south. Must be a ralley down there. I truied looking at a few of the sites to see if I could figure out what was going on but didn't notice anything for this weekend.

Well I finnaly got my car repaired today. It's been sitting in my garge for close to a month with what I thought was a bad Diff. Made this horrible nois when coasting. Foud a used Diff last weekend. Went to put it in today and found a bad U-Joint LOL My car has been down for a monty with a bad $12 u-joint!

Now that I have the garage free I can start working on the 59 since I have a place to store the interrior parts. Hopefull next weekend.

Then I can get it out on the road and get seen this spring!!!!!!

Think I'll go over to wbcci web site and get my free year started. I have not decided if I can put the numbers on the old gal. As far as I can tell she never had any.

I did start to wash her today...with a pot brush

It was so grungy that a sponge was not working. I doubt it has been washed in 10 years. Got dark before I could finish.

jpurdy · 03-29-2003, 08:16 PM

well you will be able to tell where you haven't cleaned

If you are storing the interior in the garage are you doing a rebuild?? If so are you leaving it original?

maybe they are going to mystic springs early!!

autoist · 03-29-2003, 08:27 PM

We stayed in an RV park in Gulf Shores, AL over Spring Break...in addition to my MH, there were 6 silver bullet trailers....in the next RV park down Fort Morgan Road was a classic MH....on a recent trip to Nashville, we passed another Land Yacht MH on I-65 & parked next to a 2000 Land Yacht MH in the parking lot of Campers World...3 fiberglass MH's in 1 day! WOW!

autoist · 03-29-2003, 08:30 PM

Oh, if you pass me on the road, here's what you'll see:

jpurdy · 03-29-2003, 08:35 PM

certainlly the 1979 MGB will keep you from being invisible

59toaster · 03-29-2003, 09:10 PM

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Originally posted by jpurdy
well you will be able to tell where you haven't cleaned

If you are storing the interior in the garage are you doing a rebuild?? If so are you leaving it original?

maybe they are going to mystic springs early!!

Yes I will! It was about black on the roof.

Just storing till I can get the floor repaired. I'm a big time gear head and my garage is for cars and trucks and tools

Well I would like to keep the original cabnets but they are a little rough. It wont' be a "Original Restore". It's missing or has to many parts damaged. The ends of both cabinets facing the front have been replaced with panneling. I hope to be able to make them look right with some finish ply. The rear wall that divides the bath has some water damage and is delaminating at the window. There was a light added in the bath and there are a bunch of holes from it. I'm going to have to replace that peice. Since so much is going to have to be replaced or repaired I may strip the existing that we can reuse and lighten it up.

The folding table is a mess! one leaf was permently screwed to the wall like a new airstream computer table. That's going back to the original configuation. Thankfully all the hardware is still there so I just need to remake the tops. The cover for the stove was made into a perment shelf. Missing the sink plugs So I will have to replace all that. We will use a more current top for that. Maybe a oak band on the edge.

Thinking about putting aluminum sheet on the bath interrior since it's all shared area with the toilet. Would ease cleaning that's for sure. Got that idea from Peter refacing his reefer that way.

Wood/laminate floor is pretty well decided on. With two kids carpet would be a pain. Put a area rug down up front and a runner through the Galley. Then we can shake them out as needed and sweep the rest out the door.

The Zolatone was painted over in semigloss house paint, in baby blue no less

I may just strip the whole interrior so I can strip the paint off without worry of damaging the cabinets we can reuse. Depending on the floor problems I run into I may have no other choice. THen I can spray the inside again possibly with Zolatone and have a better end result. It has crossed our mind to strip it to the aluminum as well as the galley overheads (ours are aluminum and would polish nice). Other thought is just the overheads and add some other bright work in other places to tie it together. Really were are up in the air on that part.

This AS was my wife's fathers since 80. She really has the majority say. It's "Hers". Part of her wants to just clean it up and keep it close to what it is now because it's a way to remember her dad. Part want's to "update" like some of the ones we have seen in the gallery. Those decisions are still a little way out.

My goal is to have it usable by summer.

There is some pictures in my photo album.

Silvertwinkie · 03-29-2003, 09:55 PM

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Originally posted by 59toaster
Well I finnaly got my car repaired today. It's been sitting in my garge for close to a month with what I thought was a bad Diff. Made this horrible nois when coasting. Foud a used Diff last weekend. Went to put it in today and found a bad U-Joint LOL My car has been down for a monty with a bad $12 u-joint!

Toaster...

I hate when that happens- really! I was looking for a rattle for about 6 months. The dealer took off an re-attached some heat sheild. I found it was a loose bumper.

Got my money back, but nothing worse than spending $$ and it does not fix it. In the Chevy world, it's a fact of life I suppose!

In the F...F... world, well, you know.

Eric

qqq · 03-29-2003, 11:45 PM

I wish mine would be invisible

Hart

suprtrker · 03-30-2003, 12:24 AM

I travle up and down the west coast. I have noticed that most of the AS I see are headed North now. I see one or two just about every day I spend on the road. My Wife and Me drive a truck for a living. We make sure to point out all the AS we see along our trips. We even check out the RV parks to see if we can see one or two. We can't wait till we take our vacation and hit the open highway in our AS. Most of the AS I see going down the road are not letting any grass grow behind them. Thay all seem to have some place to go and are getting right with the program. If you travle to the West Coast I'll keep a look out for you. Happy Travling.

Photobitstream · 03-30-2003, 11:37 AM

Yep, they're out here on the Left Coast. I saw three on the road last Friday while traveling from Willows, CA back to the SF Bay Area, plus another one parked at the Willow Glen RV Park in Willows.

One was traveling north on I-5, one was heading south on I-5, and the other was heading west on I-80. Plus, of course, my 1965 Overlander which is getting some rust damage repaired at Birchwood Beuaties, as well as a kitchen remodel to accomodate a larger refrigerator.

I should have mine back in a couple of weeks. I'll haul it to the Willow Glen RV Park and pretty much leae it in one spot except for the occasional foray to Sears Point and Laguna Seca, so if any of you are in this part of the country stop by and say hello.

suprtrker · 03-30-2003, 04:17 PM

We plan on making the trip to Laguna Saca this year. We have Familey is Salinas Ca. We used to go out there all the time. This year We plan On Hitting Carmel, Santa Cruz, Redwood City And Montray. Maybe we will see you out there on the road.

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When You pull an AS the shiney side is really up!