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Post by SusieQ on Oct 7, 2014 7:22:23 GMT -8
Apparently, the first 16 are. I think they come in aqua and yellow too. They roll all the same color off the production line at one time. |
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Post by SusieQ on Oct 7, 2014 7:33:35 GMT -8
Sorry folks...why are we devoting 5 pages to a reproduction of a vintage Shasta? This is Vintage Trailer Talk...anyone who buys one of these needs to find a Reproduction Vintage Camper Talk site or create one...owners of vintage campers and new reproduction owners/tribute vintage camper owners are like fruit and nuts...both have rightful places on the planet but not together except for maybe in a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut candy bar yuuum, imho...trailerparkluke, sorry, I'm calling you out for your shameless advertisement for your Uncle Paul's RVs business, hope you make salesman of the month. Because there is a huge group of Shasta lovers here. It is a throw back version. As VINTAGE owners, we are interested in what is authentically reproduced and what has been modernized, a contrast and compare. Authentic repro parts could be interchangeable with vintage trailers which could be an asset to restorers. It's also nice to know that down the road future generations will be discerning between the real thing and the repro. There are a few here who are interested in owning the look and not interested in restoring, or maybe not capable of restoring or maintaining a vintage trailer. For those, it is a good alternative. As for advertising, there's plenty out there. Anyone who actively searches for Shasta trailers comes across an ad in every Craigslist and websites of several vintage trailer parts suppliers. |
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Post by vintagebruce on Oct 7, 2014 10:59:59 GMT -8
SusieQ, I can't disagree with anything you have just posted. I am part of that Huge Shasta Lovers Group. My above comment was basically paraphrasing most of the posts of Members on the first 4 pages. I believe at least 50% or more of "Customer Product reviews" are performed by professionals working from home who churn them out and are paid for the number they produce. The one I mentioned is so obviously disingenuous that it irked me. A brief glance at the interior makes me believe there are no veritas type gas lights, no cool cone lights, no cabinetry hardware such as boomerang pulls or other sought after replacement parts interchangeable with Airflytes or SLC's of that era...there certainly is NO internal Birchwood Beauty (charm). Yawn, I took a look, nothing of real personal interest here, so I moved along, but not before I posted my 2 1/2 cents worth of course:)
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Post by danrhodes on Oct 7, 2014 12:40:26 GMT -8
Apparently, the first 16 are. I think they come in aqua and yellow too. They roll all the same color off the production line at one time. They seem to have models for each, yellow and red on my local Craigslist ad. If I had the money, I would consider it, but the only reason I have a vintage trailer in my driveway in the first place is because the wife thinks I "need more hobbies"...as if our broken house isn't a full time job already! santabarbara.craigslist.org/rvd/4703239218.html |
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Post by SusieQ on Oct 7, 2014 12:48:16 GMT -8
These are proto types of the 16 ft, not actual production models: Yellow and Seafoam Green:  |
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Post by mobiltec on Oct 7, 2014 14:50:53 GMT -8
I wonder if we can buy those brows?  Where do they get them? |
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Post by shasta15 on Oct 7, 2014 18:07:28 GMT -8
Well, the parts are supposedly true to the originals (with the stated exceptions of door size and siding profile), so once the trailers get into the market there should be parts for sale through the Shasta dealers. It will be interesting to see how this can be utilized by the vintage community.
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Post by mobiltec on Oct 7, 2014 19:13:24 GMT -8
Interesting that they went with 4 inch brakes on the skin. I did that in front and rear on the 57...
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Post by vikx on Oct 7, 2014 21:17:11 GMT -8
I wanna see a *REAL* one...
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Post by vintagebruce on Oct 8, 2014 6:46:31 GMT -8
..."it's a re-issue based on the original print pack from 1961..."
“We are building to current RVIA codes and using modern air conditioners, microwaves, stereos, furnaces, etc.,” he explained. “Hehr windows has dusted off their tooling and is making jalousie windows for us and Amerimax is making the log cabin siding."
Darn do I feel foolish. I, like others, have been commenting apparently erroneously about siding with 4" brakes and 6" brakes etc. Silly me...I should have been saying siding with 4" logs and 6" logs. Gotta learn to talk the talk before I attempt to walk the vintage/re-issue walk Guess the original cute small campers like the Arrow Little Chief with the lattice pattern siding around the bottom half really have the Waffle House patterned lower siding. If the suspension isn't great and the camper bounces while towed I am referring to that as the I-Hop bounce.
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Post by John Palmer on Oct 8, 2014 7:40:13 GMT -8
I wonder if we can buy those brows? Where do they get them? Larry, I spoke with a guy that helped with some of the parts sourcing. He said they had a very hard time coming up with any kind of a quality window eyebrow "that still looked vintage", and he was not sure what they ended up doing. But then we already knew that about eyebrows, LOL.
He said one of the advantages to our hobby from projects like this, is the ability to amortize the high cost of tooling, to make more "hard to find" parts available, and at reasonable prices.
Time will tell, how much it helps. I think it will raise the demand, through increased awareness, and that will eventually increase the supply with more companies seeing vintage trailers/parts as a viable market.
Over the next five years you will see many parts reproduced that are just not available today, just a prediction.
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Post by schweetcruisers on Oct 8, 2014 7:50:05 GMT -8
Well at least they're easily discernible from the originals. I think your going to see a lot of these used in the next few months/years, as they'll appeal to people who want the look with out the work and have deep pockets, once the popularity of the hobby dies down and their no longer the "it" thing to have they'll move on to the next "it" thing.
I've been telling people this since these were announced, "You don't buy a Shasta, you earn a Shasta"
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Post by John Palmer on Oct 8, 2014 7:52:31 GMT -8
..."it's a re-issue based on the original print pack from 1961..." “We are building to current RVIA codes and using modern air conditioners, microwaves, stereos, furnaces, etc.,” he explained. “Hehr windows has dusted off their tooling and is making jalousie windows for us and Amerimax is making the log cabin siding." Darn do I feel foolish. I, like others, have been commenting apparently erroneously about siding with 4" brakes and 6" brakes etc. Silly me...I should have been saying siding with 4" logs and 6" logs. Gotta learn to talk the talk before I attempt to walk the vintage/re-issue walk Guess the original cute small campers like the Arrow Little Chief with the lattice pattern siding around the bottom half really have the Waffle House patterned lower siding. If the suspension isn't great and the camper bounces while towed I am referring to that as the I-Hop bounce. Bruce, Amerimax is a huge national "wholesale supplier" to the RV industry. They make the roof panels that I use, and it's very nice quality product.
But........and it's just my guess, they were not able to roll the wider brake pattern, and Shasta did not see the pattern width change as a problem. I also use the 4" brake pattern, because it can be done on automated equipment, and the finished panel looks better than "hand bent" brakes. In a production environment, I would think they had no choice to keep cost down.
If they end up "building a million trailers per year", it would make sense, to retool the machinery to make the correct width brake pattern.
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Post by John Palmer on Oct 8, 2014 8:02:09 GMT -8
Well at least they're easily discernible from the originals. I think your going to see a lot of these used in the next few months/years, as they'll appeal to people who want the look with out the work and have deep pockets, once the popularity of the hobby dies down and their no longer the "it" thing to have they'll move on to the next "it" thing. I've been telling people this since these were announced, "You don't buy a Shasta, you earn a Shasta" Schweet, You absolutely correct. We have never seen "a reproduction" yet that was the same as the original.
Bauer Pottery VW Bugs (they tried twice and failed) Ford Mustangs (I have lost track how many times they have brought it back "as new") Challengers Camaro's Every Harley Davidson ever made was a copy, except the first one! Schwinn's Black Phantoms, and Sting Rays
The list goes on and on, because the buying public............buys this "off shore" stuff.
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Post by vintagebruce on Oct 8, 2014 8:58:08 GMT -8
John Palmer...with Amerimax making the siding, it may actually lower costs for those that want to re-skin...I had just never heard any rebuilders or restorers that I correspond with/respect as sources of knowledge, referring to siding on vintage campers as log cabin siding...the quote, leads me to believe that must have been what the siding was referred to in that original print pack from 1961, or the person who prepared the press release is not a "vintage" PR person...who instead just called it like s/he saw it. Maybe that is what the design engineers did call it...smh.
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