Searching For My Grandparents Airstream

[avery0818]

Hello! I am new to the forum and joined hoping to find a way to find my grandparents airstream they used to own when I was little. Is there a place to go and enter the number on the back of the trailer. That is all I have as far as info. #7366 Thx Seth

[tvketchum]

That number is not currently assigned to a member. Since numbers are issued to members and not to trailers, it is hard to trace. Also, you would need to be a member of WBCCI to have access to the directory. Even then, there is not an electronic database which would be available.
Since the club membership number was just that, you would not be able to trace ownership as you could with a VIN or serial number.



Tom
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[tvketchum]

If you have any other information, such as last name, year of the trailer, model of the trailer, when it was sold, what state it was registered in, someone may be able to offer more assistance.


Tom
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[dwightdi]

Without a vin number off the trailer, there is no way of tracing who bought or currently owns that trailer.

The club does not keep records of the vin number of the trailer, you claim to own, when you join the club. Therefore, the vin number of your grandfather's trailer is not retrievable from the club. The club does not have search capability for vin numbers, so if some one did join the club with a trailer with the same vin number, the new owner's name would not be searchable. Sorry about that.

[tvketchum]

Originally Posted by tvketchum

Since the club membership number was just that, you would not be able to trace ownership as you could with a VIN or serial number.

Tom
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I did not mean to imply WBCCI could search their records for a VIN or serial number. Such a search would be through the individual state motor vehicle departments. Difficult, time consuming and likely costly, but, distantly possible.


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[bellgirl]

Hi, I am new to the forum and joined hoping to find a way to find my grandparents airstream they used to own when I was little. they were part of the 1963 Wally Byan around the world tour. #6524. It is a heritage number. does anyone know how to track the trailer?
thanks,
Lisa

[66Overlander]

Originally Posted by bellgirl

Hi, I am new to the forum and joined hoping to find a way to find my grandparents airstream they used to own when I was little. they were part of the 1963 Wally Byan around the world tour. #6524. It is a heritage number. does anyone know how to track the trailer?
thanks,
Lisa

Hi Lisa,
Your inquiry is very different from the original one that you posted under. It really should be its own AirForums message thread.

The Airstreams used on the 1963-64 Around the World Caravan (ATWC) are well researched. Twelve (12) of the forty-five (45) Airstream trailers that started the ATWC are known to still exist and two (2) are confirmed to have been destroyed. A new one seems to be rediscovered every few years, so there is hope that more will turn up soon. I own and have restored one of the 12 that is currently known to still exist and am in contact with the owners of the other 11. I too would love to find your grandparents ATWC Airstream, because it was the only one from my home state of Michigan, but unfortunately, it is not one of the ones currently known to still exist. I can provide the year, model, and serial number of your grandparents trailer and even several photos of it on the ATWC, but I do not want to post that information on this thread.

I have written extensively about the ATWC, most recently a six-part series for it's 60th anniversary that ran in the November 2023 thru February 2025 issues of the Wally Byam Caravan Club International (WBCCI) Blue Beret magazine that is available to club members. I have also given presentations about the ATWC at several club Rallies over the years and even co-hosted a mini 60th Anniversary Around the World Caravan last year for the Vintage Airstream Club last year that had 5 Airstreams and 3 people from the original 1963-64 ATWC participate.

I would suggest contacting me at my Airstream Club Historian email history@airstreamclub.org. I have much information I can share and would love to learn if you have photos or other information you can share with me. That would best be done via email. I look forward to hearing from you.