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08-01-2006, 05:07 PM
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2 Rivet Member 
1979 31' Excella 500
Edmond
, Oklahoma
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Vintage?
OK, so I am still learning. I have had a 79 Excella 31 foot for a little a month now and I don't understand. What makes an Airstream "Vintage"? Is it the same as a classic car - 25 years? Is my 79 Vintage?
Dan
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08-01-2006, 05:10 PM
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Rivet Master  Commercial Member
New Borockton
, Alabama
Join Date: Sep 2002
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08-01-2006, 05:45 PM
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Rivet Master
1979 23' Safari
1954 29' Liner
Orange
, California
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 3,837
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Originally Posted by Dano57
OK, so I am still learning. I have had a 79 Excella 31 foot for a little a month now and I don't understand. What makes an Airstream "Vintage"? Is it the same as a classic car - 25 years? Is my 79 Vintage?
Dan
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Dan,
It is as vintage as my 1979 Safari. You are eligible for full VAC membership and may proudly display a VAC sticker on your trailer (if you join of course).
http://www.airstream.net/
Bill
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Just my personal opinion
1973 Dodge W200 PowerWagon, 1977 Lincoln Continental, 2014 Dodge Durango
1979 23' Safari, and 1954 29' Double Door Liner Orange, CA
https://billbethsblog.blogspot.com/
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08-02-2006, 09:37 AM
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Rivet Master
Chesapeake
, Virginia
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 626
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Mine is NOT vintage????????
You mean my 1989 370 MoHo is NOT vintage?  Sure seems like it when I try to get parts.  Even Airstream seems to have forgotten, at times, that they built this vehicle.  I have to buy most parts from "vintage" sites.  OK, just wait 8 more years...
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Tim
1987 30P
2003 Suburban 2500
AIR # 5648
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08-02-2006, 09:43 AM
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Rivet Master
1963 16' Bambi
1962 22' Safari
Yreka
, California
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,937
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Vintage
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Originally Posted by 68 Overlander
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Well, does that mean that all of the folks that are over 25 here are "vintage" too????? We could start a VAO.... (Vintage Airstream Owner) group... I like the over 25 as being "vintage" it would put a lot more folks into the category.....
Mrs. NorCal Bambi (traveling in S Tardis)
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08-02-2006, 12:20 PM
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Rivet Master Commercial Member
New Borockton
, Alabama
Join Date: Sep 2002
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Tim,
Man are you right about that. Its not until they become vintage that parts start to become available again.
It's like cars, nobody cares about your 15 year old heap but you can build an entire 65 Mustang from a parts catelog!
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08-02-2006, 12:26 PM
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2 Rivet Member
1976 21' Globetrotter
eugene
, Oregon
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 66
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wow! so look at it this way.....some vintage are 25 or so years older than other vintage. they could start there own "catagories" of vintage! wonder when vintage will over take the non-vintage....can't ya see it comming!
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08-02-2006, 12:41 PM
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Rivet Master
Chesapeake
, Virginia
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 626
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Originally Posted by janetbjt
wow! wonder when vintage will over take the non-vintage....can't ya see it comming!
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At the prices on the new ones , I suspect the vintage just may overtake the non-vintage .
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1987 30P
2003 Suburban 2500
AIR # 5648
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08-02-2006, 03:46 PM
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2 Rivet Member
1976 21' Globetrotter
eugene
, Oregon
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 66
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it's at the international in salem that the thought first came to me, and on these formus....lots and lots of vintage and seems to me that most of the threads here are about vintage. wonder what the numbers actually are.
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08-02-2006, 04:05 PM
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Rivet Master 
1966 26' Overlander
Woodstock
, Georgia
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 8,525
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Tim-- be glad you're not vintage. Many of us here are though.
Then again you do have a Classic.
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08-02-2006, 07:42 PM
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Rivet Master
Chesapeake
, Virginia
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 626
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Originally Posted by ALANSD
Tim-- be glad you're not vintage. Many of us here are though.
Then again you do have a Classic.
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Alan,
Let's just say I'm getting mighty close regardless of what definition we use. Classic has to be just about like vintage. Sure has the same issues .
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Tim
1987 30P
2003 Suburban 2500
AIR # 5648
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08-02-2006, 08:21 PM
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Rivet Master
1951 21' Flying Cloud
1960 24' Tradewind
West Coast
, BC
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 3,790
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I used to think that Vintage was anything older than me. Then it was anything the same age as I was. Then it was anything around when I got married. Then it seemed it was anything that was made when my parents were still in this world. Now my "new" cars are classics and anything I really enjoy is vintage or worse, antique. What is really scary is I have stuff I bought new that was all the rage that is at the vintage/antique border crossing depending on who's looking at it. Thank heavens Airstreams are considered timeless....
Barry
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08-02-2006, 08:38 PM
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Rivet Master
Chesapeake
, Virginia
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 626
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Barry, I know exactly what you mean. I'm still using a Toro lawn mower I bought in 1976. Change the oil once a year whether it needs it or not. Still seems new to me.
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Tim
1987 30P
2003 Suburban 2500
AIR # 5648
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