Post by schweetcruisers on Jun 15, 2014 19:29:11 GMT -8
Do all old trailers smell like mouse pee, or does mouse pee smell like all old trailers?
So on the last camping trip my wife and I were talking about what we love and what we hate about out trailer, the big issue for both of us is the lack of a bathroom(yes our had one originally but my wife didn't want it...so it went) and I wanted double axles cause of sway. But we weren't really looking for one as we were elbow deep in re-landscaping our back yard and had a lot of trips planned for the summer with our Shasta. Enter a random visit to this forum by me and seeing a post by a new member zbubble.
vintagetrailertalk.freeforums.net/thread/2297/newb-colorado
The trailer hit the nail on head, I drove the hour-hour and half to the rural town where the trailer had lived for the past 25 years, I wanted it! We agreed on a price, I had to order new rims and get new tires since it was sitting on 7 x 14.5 bias ply's from 1979. Unfortunately the trailer was not as nice as the pictures showed it, 25 years living at the front door of tornado alley did a number on the skin, the roof and curb side actually look like golf ball, it had plenty of water damage and rot, not to mention the MICE and bugs, but with some hard work it should be campable by next winter.
FYI it is fully self contained, it is not a park model has a Blackwater tank. I've been told the original owner towed this to Mexico and back to Colorado with a station wagon.
Here is my 1961 Kenskill 23.5(the box is 23.5') "Kenny the Whale"
sample of the Hail Damage
Yellow Appliances and Fixtures
H20 Damage
My Shasta is feeling inferior-
Also the trailer came a 3 ring binder with every Kenskill Brochure, an Airstream Brochure and pretty much every owners manual for everything on this trailer so I'll be scanning them is as time allows!!
So on the last camping trip my wife and I were talking about what we love and what we hate about out trailer, the big issue for both of us is the lack of a bathroom(yes our had one originally but my wife didn't want it...so it went) and I wanted double axles cause of sway. But we weren't really looking for one as we were elbow deep in re-landscaping our back yard and had a lot of trips planned for the summer with our Shasta. Enter a random visit to this forum by me and seeing a post by a new member zbubble.
vintagetrailertalk.freeforums.net/thread/2297/newb-colorado
The trailer hit the nail on head, I drove the hour-hour and half to the rural town where the trailer had lived for the past 25 years, I wanted it! We agreed on a price, I had to order new rims and get new tires since it was sitting on 7 x 14.5 bias ply's from 1979. Unfortunately the trailer was not as nice as the pictures showed it, 25 years living at the front door of tornado alley did a number on the skin, the roof and curb side actually look like golf ball, it had plenty of water damage and rot, not to mention the MICE and bugs, but with some hard work it should be campable by next winter.
FYI it is fully self contained, it is not a park model has a Blackwater tank. I've been told the original owner towed this to Mexico and back to Colorado with a station wagon.
Here is my 1961 Kenskill 23.5(the box is 23.5') "Kenny the Whale"
sample of the Hail Damage
Yellow Appliances and Fixtures
H20 Damage
My Shasta is feeling inferior-
Also the trailer came a 3 ring binder with every Kenskill Brochure, an Airstream Brochure and pretty much every owners manual for everything on this trailer so I'll be scanning them is as time allows!!
