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Post by wisconsinjoe on Jan 21, 2015 7:02:34 GMT -8
That is exactly what I do with my old issues.
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Post by nccamper on Jan 21, 2015 16:43:03 GMT -8
Mazazines, music, TV show, etc are showing a growing popularity. No doubt about it.
But I wonder when the supply (which is finite) of unmolested vintage restoration candidates will be exhausted? The lipstick repairs may ruin this hobby by absorbing every vintage camper worth the time and money to restore.
Old timer question...are you seeing the supply of vintage restoration candidates dry up from the "old days"?
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Post by John Palmer on Jan 21, 2015 18:32:50 GMT -8
Mazazines, music, TV show, etc are showing a growing popularity. No doubt about it. But I wonder when the supply (which is finite) of unmolested vintage restoration candidates will be exhausted? The lipstick repairs may ruin this hobby by absorbing every vintage camper worth the time and money to restore. Old timer question...are you seeing the supply of vintage restoration candidates dry up from the "old days"? There are more 1932 Ford Roadsters driving the streets of America today, than were originally produced in 1932!
A steel reproduction 1932 Ford Roadster body (no frame) starts around $12K, and three window bodies are even higher! And YES, people are paying to buy these reproduction bodies.
There's very little cost in tooling for reproduction windows, eyebrows, door hinges, lock handles, and the like to make a reproduction trailer compared to tooling up to stamp out reproduction bodies today for 55-56-57 Chevy's, and 1932 Fords.
You will see nicely done reproduction trailer's before this fad dies. Save the original trailer titles, and frame vin#'s, they will come into demand when the repo's hit.
This is just the car hobby all over again...........
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Post by wisconsinjoe on Jan 21, 2015 19:51:29 GMT -8
Old timer question...are you seeing the supply of vintage restoration candidates dry up from the "old days"?
There's very little cost in tooling for reproduction windows, eyebrows, door hinges, lock handles, and the like to make a reproduction trailer compared to tooling up to stamp out reproduction bodies today for 55-56-57 Chevy's, and 1932 Fords.
You will see nicely done reproduction trailer's before this fad dies. Save the original trailer titles, and frame vin#'s, they will come into demand when the repo's hit. If that is true, I'm all for it. I wish I could find good repro parts because a want to build a true vintage style trailer from scratch. I've been lookjng all over with no luck to find a nice door or even a bargeman door handle. I'll be driving 150 miles this weekend just to buy some used jalousie windows that will take me hours to clean up. My new camper will be as good, and hopefully better than the originals (...certainly better than those reissue Shastas). And if the fad means we see more little campers pulled by smaller cars, and more families sitting outside by the campfire instead of inside those huge homes away from homes with their plastic materials and big screen TVs, then all the better. I think our hobby has as much to do with the lifestyle of camping "small" as with the restoration process (...although a finished product is mighty satisfying isn't it?).
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Post by mobiltec on Jan 28, 2015 17:33:58 GMT -8
I have no idea if any of my trailers have been in that magazine yet. But it took me 30 years to get into the skydiving magazine and I pay $50 a year for that one. I'm the guy in the middle...
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Post by MarthaS on Jan 28, 2015 17:38:18 GMT -8
That's awesome Larry.
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Post by bigbill on Mar 8, 2015 8:43:33 GMT -8
Mazazines, music, TV show, etc are showing a growing popularity. No doubt about it. But I wonder when the supply (which is finite) of unmolested vintage restoration candidates will be exhausted? The lipstick repairs may ruin this hobby by absorbing every vintage camper worth the time and money to restore. Old timer question...are you seeing the supply of vintage restoration candidates dry up from the "old days"? There are more 1932 Ford Roadsters driving the streets of America today, than were originally produced in 1932!
A steel reproduction 1932 Ford Roadster body (no frame) starts around $12K, and three window bodies are even higher! And YES, people are paying to buy these reproduction bodies.
There's very little cost in tooling for reproduction windows, eyebrows, door hinges, lock handles, and the like to make a reproduction trailer compared to tooling up to stamp out reproduction bodies today for 55-56-57 Chevy's, and 1932 Fords.
You will see nicely done reproduction trailer's before this fad dies. Save the original trailer titles, and frame vin#'s, they will come into demand when the repo's hit.
This is just the car hobby all over again...........
John I totally agree. I remember in the eighties I was rebuilding a Model T and needed door hinges. No problem they had been repoping them for years, WRONG it seems like the restoration of Ts had dropped off to the point that they stopped making them then the Fad Ts made a come back with repro bodies and guess what now they are available with no problem. There are more T roadsters out there now than Henry built also.
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