Post by iamvoldemort on Jun 14, 2017 17:02:30 GMT -8
I am trying to right my wrongs.
A few weeks ago I purchased a 14' Trailblazer from Craigslist for $400. No title, previous owner butchered the trailer, gutted it, installed his fix to a roof. If I could say how much I have learned in this short period of time owning this thing and researching... It would be like going from staring at a bike with training wheels... to doing a backflip off a dirt ramp (maybe a little bit of a stretch) I was immature, naive and wanted a TRAILER!
The point of the story... Trailer is down to frame. I've watched 80 hours of trailer project remodels from the wonderful Mobile Tec (also currently enrolled in his classroom) The walls are shot, everything is rotted, the floor everything! I removed the skin and it's sitting in a nice pile, documented everything I removed. But I don't know how much saving there is. The current skin has holes everywhere and a HUGE one where the Previous Owner decided to install his own Window AC unit.
Trailblazers have this beautiful curved hump in the front and the previous owner removed that (pictures to follow) I want and I am planning a frame up re-build. Learning, following along on how to do this properly. But I don't have anything ORIGINAL.
Where this is going... There is a Trailblazer for sale (pictures to follow) north of me. He is asking $800 says it needs new tires and couldn't haul it home on the current. Says there is water damage in one back corner and needs a new floor otherwise good to go. Well I trust someones word as much as I trust the meat being real at McDonalds. I told him I will show up with a drill and start looking at the frame of this trailer he swears is okay. I know now that anything 50 years old is going to have some rot. It just depends on the extent of it and if he even knows what smoke he is trying to blow.
But the short. I don't have anything original. Do I purchase this and pull everything off, rebuild it with the original parts and a skin that is beautiful. Or do I stay on path with the bottom up re-build I have, purchase new skin... Look at pictures from other Trailblazers and try to build it back to original as much as possible? I like Trailblazers. Made in Wisconsin. I live in Wisconsin. That is pretty cool!
I trust this group and your insight. Please and thank you all!
Pictures of my current project...
drive.google.com/open?id=0B_CWs3xFhkjwZDVLcTBWMG9WSEE
Now pictures of the trailer that could be mine.
drive.google.com/open?id=0B_CWs3xFhkjwYmVlZng4TmRQN1U
A few weeks ago I purchased a 14' Trailblazer from Craigslist for $400. No title, previous owner butchered the trailer, gutted it, installed his fix to a roof. If I could say how much I have learned in this short period of time owning this thing and researching... It would be like going from staring at a bike with training wheels... to doing a backflip off a dirt ramp (maybe a little bit of a stretch) I was immature, naive and wanted a TRAILER!
The point of the story... Trailer is down to frame. I've watched 80 hours of trailer project remodels from the wonderful Mobile Tec (also currently enrolled in his classroom) The walls are shot, everything is rotted, the floor everything! I removed the skin and it's sitting in a nice pile, documented everything I removed. But I don't know how much saving there is. The current skin has holes everywhere and a HUGE one where the Previous Owner decided to install his own Window AC unit.
Trailblazers have this beautiful curved hump in the front and the previous owner removed that (pictures to follow) I want and I am planning a frame up re-build. Learning, following along on how to do this properly. But I don't have anything ORIGINAL.
Where this is going... There is a Trailblazer for sale (pictures to follow) north of me. He is asking $800 says it needs new tires and couldn't haul it home on the current. Says there is water damage in one back corner and needs a new floor otherwise good to go. Well I trust someones word as much as I trust the meat being real at McDonalds. I told him I will show up with a drill and start looking at the frame of this trailer he swears is okay. I know now that anything 50 years old is going to have some rot. It just depends on the extent of it and if he even knows what smoke he is trying to blow.
But the short. I don't have anything original. Do I purchase this and pull everything off, rebuild it with the original parts and a skin that is beautiful. Or do I stay on path with the bottom up re-build I have, purchase new skin... Look at pictures from other Trailblazers and try to build it back to original as much as possible? I like Trailblazers. Made in Wisconsin. I live in Wisconsin. That is pretty cool!
I trust this group and your insight. Please and thank you all!
Pictures of my current project...
drive.google.com/open?id=0B_CWs3xFhkjwZDVLcTBWMG9WSEE
Now pictures of the trailer that could be mine.
drive.google.com/open?id=0B_CWs3xFhkjwYmVlZng4TmRQN1U
