Trailer Identity Needed

Nobody wants to take a stab on a make and year on this trailer?

There were so many manufacturers that came and went with less than 100 trailers built that it's impossible to have a record of every one of them. Just like now, all the rallies that I go to, half the people there are "in the business" of restoring trailers yet they have only completed one and it was done all wrong. Very few of the manufactures made it in the business. Most went to the way side and left little to no records of what they did. In today's world the same thing is happening. I see new types of trailers coming out every day and two months later no one has heard of them. For every tiny home built today there is a new company building tiny homes for $30k and they are NOT worth the money in my opinion. They claim their tiny homes are RVs yet they don't want to comply with state and local regulations regarding RVs. But everyone who builds one tiny home is suddenly in the business and 10 years from now you will not find any records of them ever having completed more than a couple units.

Today's trailers are all exactly alike. Just like the trailers of yesteryear. They are all built in the same shape, all built with the same parts, have the same floor plans and the only way you can tell them apart is by the graphics on the sides. All of them will start to leak within 7 years and no one will do a proper job of resealing them. They will go out and buy all kinds of goop and when they finally give up they will list their trailer for sale for too much money on Craig's List where it will be bought by an unsuspecting person who will do the same thing. The cycle goes on and on and nothing has really changed over the decades except for the type of materials used. The people are the same, the floor plans are the same and the outside shapes are now repeating themselves due to the high interest in canned hams.

Now if you want to take a stab at trying to find out what kind of trailer this might be you need to drag it home and start researching titles, VINs and all the forums on the internet using lots of pictures of the inside and outside of the trailer. You should take it apart and look behind the mirrors, under the sinks and anywhere else that might give you a clue as to the year made and possibly the name of the manufacturer and where they were located.

I agree with a lot of what mobiltec said above. It is getting harder to identify many of the new "found" campers, because it seems like more of them are orphans...campers that were in production for relatively short periods of time during the time period when there could have been as many as 2000 camper manufacturers all operating and looking for a slice of the recreational camping pie. As it turned out, for every recognizable "brand" that made an impact on the industry a hundred little guys fell along the way, leaving similar in style knock-offs for whatever reason, who did not catch the buying public's attention enough to catapult that company to the forefront...probably many were just undercapitalized. This camper probably does not have the warm amber birch interior and is mid to late 60's...here is a photo of a 60's Monitor camper with some of this one's characteristics...the one in question is probably not a product of the Monitor Coach Company Inc. Wakarusa, Ind. a subsidiary of the Wickes Corporation, but how many of us are familiar with the 22 styles of campers Monitor manufactured anyway?

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The only thing I see that might prove a solid clue to a recognizable brand might be the paint scheme on the side if it is original. I have seen that original type side stripe before, and am going to start looking for it in my identifier files.

IMO go for it if you can get it free.

The picture isn't very good, but it doesn't look like it has either a tongue, or wheels under it. Maybe you should ask for a better picture, or leave well enough alone. 

I was offered a 'free' trailer a couple years ago. It was a late 40s something or other and looked great from the street. I made arrangement to pick it up, including a friend with a truck big enough to haul it. We got in the yard and saw the other side. Someone had cut out a 6' wide hole, in the wall hinged the bottom and used it for a ramp, and nailed a a lean-to shade onto the front. It must have been used for a goat shed or something. Yikes. The saddest part was that the interior wasn't in terrible shape, even for having been so exposed, and all of the windows were still intact.

I noticed it was gone a couple months ago. Dunno if they took out in pieces, or managed to haul it out of there somehow. Cryin' shame what some people do to old trailers.

I learned about it in a Vintage Campers New England group I'm part of on Facebook.  The man who posted about it had found it, and spoke briefly with the owner.  He said it's been up on blocking for years, so the tires are in decent shape as they and the frame haven't just been sitting in the dirt all this time.  He did say it was towable.  He's a "collector" and has never restored a camper, has only flipped a few and resold them, and basically just hordes them.  The family member I would have go get it has access to a flatbed and could get it the few miles to his house that way.  SaveSave

Oh, I most certainly do want to.  What's holding me back is the Shasta still laying on sawhorses in the garage, the near-freezing nighttime temps in Northern Maine already and the fact that we still haven't hooked up a heat source in the garage, the fact that I have two more campers outside in queue to be done... and on and on.  Can you tell I'm trying to talk myself out of it???  hahaSaveSave