Want to be a Shasta owner!

I just ran across this one on ebay this morning.  1969 front-kitchen Loflyte, located in Dardanelle, Arkansas.

 It is not as early as you are looking for, and quite a haul across the country, but it is an excellent candidate for a restore job.  It hasn't been all ripped apart inside, for a change, and it has a few of the original appointments.  

It is missing some paperwork, and this is an issue that you should research (for any future searches as well) for what your home state requires.

 If nothing else, this is a good example of what makes for a decent candidate for rebuilding, to help as a reference for your search.

www.ebay.com/itm/1969-Shasta-Lowflyte-Vintage-and-Original-No-Reserve/121878820651?_trksid=p2060778.c100276.m3476&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140725133649%26meid%3D9ae9b5bc1cf0460381b88d89a17ae2dd%26pid%3D100276%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D231824837215

Welcome and good luck on your safari. We hope you bag a nice Shasta. Just to open up possibilities, there are other trailers of the same vintage that may look a lot like Shastas on the outside, and inside there is not a lot of variation in layouts for trailers of a certain size. Those with a 10 foot box are pretty much front kitchen large closet, rear table that makes the bed. The 12-13 foot boxes have a front dinette that turns into a bed, street side kitchen, rear bed or gaucho, small closet with fridge on the curb side, the old ham style ones (1956 and earlier) have that same layout with a fu ll time bed in back. Sometimes they will also have a h a mock or bunk. So if you don't see a Shasta, there might be something else for you out there.

When I go fishin' for trailers I use "Searchtempest".

Enter your Zip code, search "vintage campers" with as distant mileage as you realistically are willing to travel. When the first page stops loading at the bottom of the page there will be a box that says something like "Keep going until 10 cities with results found (May take a long time)" I look (2000 mile radius)just for fun almost every day, and often find good candidates for restoration. More often I find ridiculously overpriced crap that someone has ruined.
Oh look, there's one now! odessa.craigslist.org/rvs/5422319736.html

Be warned about the Cardinals...the pre-1960 models had rather flimsy framework to them, and were known for bent and broken tongues, among other problems.

What did you do to the 59? My frame was weak and bent, but not "rotten"... Only poorly and cheaply designed.

So it's the quality of the steel? Very scary.