ladywendolyn
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Post by ladywendolyn on Aug 12, 2015 8:14:10 GMT -8
The only reason I am suspicious of the full restore on this trailer is that anyone who has actually done a full restore can't help but list some of the details of that restore and mention that there is documentation. I also think you lose your cutest voice when speaking about your trailer after a certain amount of blood sweat and tears ... Lol
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Post by Ten on Aug 12, 2015 9:49:11 GMT -8
You won't get any rants from me!..... Just want to point out the SOTF member number is spelled out across the camper. This really was the mainstay of the "Sisters"...the camper small enough to be able to tow, and prettied and sexied up to one's fantasy tastes....
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Post by Hamlet on Aug 12, 2015 10:12:12 GMT -8
You won't get any rants from me!..... Just want to point out the SOTF member number is spelled out across the camper. This really was the mainstay of the "Sisters"...the camper small enough to be able to tow, and prettied and sexied up to one's fantasy tastes.... The good news is that the chance of our being anywhere near where she is towing a trailer that is several feet longer than her FOUR cylinder tow vehicle, is slim to none. Aside from the general safety of that decision, the crocheted spare tire cover would completely distract us.
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Post by Ten on Aug 12, 2015 12:02:20 GMT -8
I was really trying to draw a distinction between the original "SOTF" and what "glamping" has turned into...but the crochet work DOES make that a very difficult argument to make....
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Post by vintagebruce on Aug 12, 2015 13:37:48 GMT -8
You won't get any rants from me!..... Just want to point out the SOTF member number is spelled out across the camper. This really was the mainstay of the "Sisters"...the camper small enough to be able to tow, and prettied and sexied up to one's fantasy tastes.... Yikes, I somehow missed the SOTF connect. Now I am going to have to keep that good eye I used to look for vintage campers with on the lookout for swarms of approaching Flies bent on exacting a bit of glamperevenge! Thank goodness no one really knows where I live since any minor comments about South Mississippi in the past were premeditated misdirection, just in case something like this came up.
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Ten
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Post by Ten on Aug 12, 2015 14:14:22 GMT -8
I think you will be exonerated in this case VB...after all, it is for sale... Keep watching the searchtempest for us all, we can't ever express our appreciation enough!
Just as an aside...am I wrong to draw the conclusion that there is a distinct difference between the Sisters club and the evolution of what "glamping" has and will become? or are they just the foundation on which all future ridiculousness will be built upon, and blamed on them?
As we are getting really close to being able to fire up the 16SC and take it out for some shakedown, I am reminded that I used to encourage my wife to look into the "Sisters"' ideas, and if there were appeal for her I would build her a camper of her own to decorate as she wished. (Happy to say, she is really more interested in finishing up the SC to as close to its original look as we can, and get CAMPING...not GLAMPING! (Uh-oh...this is getting close to another rant...)
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Post by chelsy on Aug 12, 2015 14:43:52 GMT -8
I don't know vintagebruce, this glamprevenge could happen to you........... Glitter Bomb.....
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Post by mel on Aug 12, 2015 18:17:15 GMT -8
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Post by Ten on Aug 12, 2015 18:41:03 GMT -8
Sure wish you did not make me look... Lots of "Structural Pink" paint and plenty of lacey frilly crap holding the walls up.
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Post by mel on Aug 12, 2015 18:51:33 GMT -8
The painted windows are making me cringe, oh and the counters, did they paint the faucets too?!?!
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Post by SusieQ on Aug 13, 2015 5:09:57 GMT -8
I saw that one on TCT FB page and after reading all the ga ga goo goo comments, I stopped following that page. As much as I enjoy seeing all the trailers I just can't stand it. I'm not particularly referencing the above trailer, but as the lovely glamped trailers start being used, what is going to happen down the road (pun not intended but it works)? The buyers are going to have trailer that start failing, they aren't going to be able to recoup their money by selling and most people who buy the glamped out, poorly restored campers are not capable of repairing them. These trailers are going to eventually rot away beyond repair. Glamping a trailer is not "saving" it as one former member tried to justify the pretty rot. Pulling an original trailer out of a field and restoring it is one thing, but 10 or 20 years down the road, who is going to want a rotten, moldly, used-to-be painted over pink thing? I'm not 100 percent purist. I wanted my trailer to stay original but it's only original once and replacing some things exactly like the original is not always sensible or economically feasible, or the most aesthetically pleasing option, but I hope I've maintained some of its vintage charm. And I know it is rot free and I'm pretty confident it won't fall off of the frame rolling down the road.
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Post by Ten on Aug 13, 2015 6:15:02 GMT -8
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Post by vintagebruce on Aug 13, 2015 7:26:48 GMT -8
I don't know vintagebruce, this glamprevenge could happen to you........... Glitter Bomb..... If they sell an industrial sized glitter bomb that you manage to get into an unsuspecting owner's trailer and it goes off are they then "Glimping"?
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Post by cowcharge on Aug 13, 2015 10:52:58 GMT -8
Sure wish you did not make me look... Lots of "Structural Pink" paint and plenty of lacey frilly crap holding the walls up. That right there is deserving of a rant. Gawd that's ugly. Even if it isn't just a rot-hiding old-hooker-in-a-new-dress, who mixes pink, orange and pastel green? It makes me shudder. I have a hard time thinking that I could have a long, deep conversation with whoever committed that. I don't think glamping is an either/or though, it's a spectrum. Pure grey functionality at one end, pure useless, nauseating frou-frou at the other end, with lots of mixtures in between. We each have our own Function-to-Glamp Ratio. I've said before that real glamping is when it looks like Liberace decorated your camper. But I think even he would be nauseated by this one. He had, after all, a certain class, grace and elegance that made the camp less campy and more stylish (didn't hurt that he was a brilliant pianist, either). That camper lacks all of those qualities. I could be comfortable in Liberace's camper, but a night in that Pepto-Bismol bottle would drive me mad. And sure there is man-glamping, but for most men, I think it just takes the form of them living at the extreme practicality end of the same spectrum, not in the extremity of their decoration (barring the occasional sports fan). You won't see as many saddles and branding irons as you will camp stoves with built-in GPS Temperature Control and hatchets that drop an ice cube out of the handle every time you swing them. Or even things like, I dunno, solar-powered bug zappers, maybe? A serious man-glamper can give you a legitimate reason for every piece of equipment he's got, and tell you exactly how long it'll take to pay for itself. Yes, it's equipment. Or gear for the rig. Not knick-knacks, and certainly not glamp. And that upholstery with the Longhorn steers and the leather trim is flame-retardant and has the same Denier number as a canvas tarp, so it's completely practical. I'm pretty much in the lower third of the glamp spectrum, I'd say. I'm no vintage "purist", or all-original snob, nothing like that (actually I think the "original" amber shellac would make me feel like the mosquito they got the dinosaur DNA from in Jurassic Park, but that's another story). I'm not afraid of a little paint in the right place (not for hiding things). But I do like the simple, vintage-y aspects of campers, the practicality of living efficiently, and exhibiting what little "fine" craftsmanship I'm capable of more than I like playing dress-up. Don't get me wrong, I do want compliments when it's done, so appearances aren't totally out of my mind. But there's not much I'm doing solely for looks, and the touches of color, like curtains and such, will definitely NOT be pink or frilly. And if there is a line strung in the way, it'll be because clothes are drying on it, not as some sort of SOTF Fleet Signals. That's just awful.
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Post by cowcharge on Aug 13, 2015 10:57:16 GMT -8
I don't know vintagebruce, this glamprevenge could happen to you........... Glitter Bomb..... If they sell an industrial sized glitter bomb that you manage to get into an unsuspecting owner's trailer and it goes off are they then "Glimping"? If it was my camper, whoever put it there would certainly be glimping when i got done with them.
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