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01-24-2009, 08:48 PM
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Rivet Master 
Dewey
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#2 Wally's Trailers, and Who Slept Where
A few more Airstreams and such from the past. This is the second batch.
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01-25-2009, 06:02 AM
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Rivet Master
1993 34' Limited
Melbourne Florida
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Thanks again for posting these wonderful pictures. Takes one back in time to when things were more simple. Thanks again.
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01-25-2009, 06:24 AM
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Site Team
2002 25' Safari
Dewey
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Great pictures Dale. Thanks for sharing these with all of us.
Who is that young couple in the last picture, they look familiar?
Can you tell us more about the trailer that Wally towed with the VW micro bus?
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Wally Byam Airstream Club 7513
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01-25-2009, 06:53 AM
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Rivet Master
Dewey
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Who are they?
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Originally Posted by azflycaster
Great pictures Dale. Thanks for sharing these with all of us.
Who is that young couple in the last picture, they look familiar?
Can you tell us more about the trailer that Wally towed with the VW micro bus?
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The couple? Dale and Susan, the gentleman is Susan's father. My Mother's car, and "Stella's Gold Trailer."
I know little about Wally's trailer that he used behind the VW Van. That was another summer in Europe and another International Rally.
Pee Wee
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01-25-2009, 07:00 AM
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Site Team
2002 25' Safari
Dewey
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PeeWee
The couple? Dale and Susan, the gentleman is Susan's father. My Mother's car, and "Stella's Gold Trailer."
Pee Wee
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I recognized your lovely wife right away, figured that was you with her. 
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Wally Byam Airstream Club 7513
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01-25-2009, 07:03 AM
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Rivet Master
Dewey
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Footgear tells the story
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Originally Posted by azflycaster
I recognized your lovely wife right away, figured that was you with her. |
See my white shoes?
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01-25-2009, 07:18 AM
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Vintage Alum. Enthusiast
1959 24' Tradewind
Phoenix
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Location: I currently do not own a 2nd Airstream
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PeeWee
See my white shoes?
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Always at the height of fashion. 
Do you know how many trailers had the #1 caravan club designation on them? I know of the gold one, the Bubble and the white one. In one of these pictures, the Vanderbuilt trailer shows "office 1." Were there others you know of?
Keep 'em coming. We'll get the whole collection on here one day. 
Brad
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01-25-2009, 07:46 AM
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Rivet Master
1971 25' Tradewind
1993 34' Excella
Currently Looking...
Estancia
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I guess nobody told Wally you can't pull an AS with a VW
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01-25-2009, 07:54 AM
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Dewey
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The trailer with the VW looks like it could be a 52/53 Clipper. I like the look of the front window on these trailers.
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Wally Byam Airstream Club 7513
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01-25-2009, 07:58 AM
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Rivet Master
Dewey
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How Many Trailers, Did Wally Use?
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Originally Posted by flyfshr
Always at the height of fashion.
Do you know how many trailers had the #1 caravan club designation on them? I know of the gold one, the Bubble and the white one. In one of these pictures, the Vanderbuilt trailer shows "office 1." Were there others you know of?
Keep 'em coming. We'll get the whole collection on here one day.
Brad
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I have no idea how many trailers actually had the number 1 one them. Going backwards there was the gold trailer. I am quite sure Wally's 1958 Western Canadian Caravan trailer had the "1". His 1956 trailer in Europe, his 1955 trailer in Europe. I guess there might have been 5 or 6 more.
The trailer that he and Neil used in 1948 was used on the first Caravan to Mexico and Central America in 1951. You see the #1. At that time I have to believe that in was only and ID and didn't necessarly represent Wally's number 1. Could be. You notice it says office, no Byam.
Wally was on 19 Caravans. Does this mean he had 19 different trailers? I don't know. Probably not. He probably used some Airstreams for several Caravans during the year. Special Caravans like Europe, and Africa he used high profile trailers with all the bells and whistles. Because he was traveling light in 1955, he had a stripped down trailer to use as a scout trailer behind a VW.
The actual "Vanderbilt" trailer that was used in 1952 at the Conventions and the Coronation never had a number one on it.
The mysteries of Airstreams.
Pee Wee
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01-25-2009, 09:01 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PeeWee
The actual "Vanderbilt" trailer that was used in 1952 at the Conventions and the Coronation never had a number one on it.
The mysteries of Airstreams.
Pee Wee
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Whatever happened to the "Vanderbilt-Commodore" trailer?
Does it still exist?
Thank you Pee Wee!
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01-25-2009, 09:11 AM
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Rivet Master
Dewey
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Where are we now? Hither and yon!
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Originally Posted by mistral blue
Whatever happened to the "Vanderbilt-Commodore" trailer?
Does it still exist?
Thank you Pee Wee!
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I have no idea. Somewhere, someone, commented that it might have burned to the ground in Europe. I just have no idea what happens to the trailers.
I know someone has my Mother's second Airstream.
We know that the gold trailer is in Jackson Center.
We know that the 1955 European Wally trailers has been purchased in Phoenix.
The prototype Wally B is in Colorado.
Otto and Oscar Payne's multi-Caravan trailer is in storage in Wyoming.
And that's about all I know about the high profile trailers.
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01-26-2009, 06:08 PM
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Rivet Master
1962 22' Safari
2016 30' Classic
Southeast
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PeeWee
Otto and Oscar Payne's multi-Caravan trailer is in storage in Wyoming.
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Small Correction: Etta and Oscar Payne's . . .
This is the second surviving trailer (besides Wally's Gold Trailer in Jackson Center) that I am aware of from the 1959-60 Cape Town to Cairo Caravan. That makes 4 known survivors from the Around the World Caravan, but only 2 known survivors from the Cape Town to Cairo Caravan. There have to be more waiting to be found.
And as PeeWee notes, the Payne's trailer was on other Caravan's to Central America and Europe, I believe.
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Wally Byam Caravan Club International Historian
Vintage Airstream Club Historian
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01-26-2009, 07:38 PM
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Airstreamin and luvin it
Commercial Member
2005 25' Safari
Northwest Panhandle
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VW Bug
I see that there is a VW Bug pulling in the mix along with a mini van in another.Pretty cool.
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