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Post by mobiltec on Jan 20, 2020 16:39:48 GMT -8
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Post by nccamper on Jan 20, 2020 18:11:36 GMT -8
New meaning for the word UGLY.
A tent never looked better.
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Post by vikx on Jan 20, 2020 20:15:07 GMT -8
I wouldn't trade my JC Higgins canvas tent for this thing...
87 is NOT vintage.
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Post by mobiltec on Jan 21, 2020 7:36:36 GMT -8
It's amazing how they just throw that word Vintage around.
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Post by tehachapibob on Jan 21, 2020 11:24:47 GMT -8
I think the word "Vintage" as a description of something is very subjective. Does age (43 yrs) make it Vintage or does doing the restorations to original interior/exterior or both?
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Post by vikx on Jan 21, 2020 12:11:01 GMT -8
By the time the mid 70s rolled around, almost all trailers were junk. Lots of MDF, poor quality build and appliances, you name it. They won't be vintage after 60 years, just ugly old trailers...
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Post by mobiltec on Jan 21, 2020 12:32:37 GMT -8
I'm in the process of making a "Vintage Trailer Hunting" video. Go take a look at Craigs List in your area and see how many unmolested "vintage" trailers there are for sale. I'm finding very few and the ones I am finding are mostly from the 70s. Even when I do find one from the 50s they want $3500 to $4500. To start a complete restore/rebuild with your investment already at those costs you're going to have $12k to $14k into a trailer that will never sell for those prices. So you're way behind in cost before you remove the first screw.
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Post by nccamper on Jan 24, 2020 5:14:19 GMT -8
I agree, 1970/80s campers weren't made well enough to survive the "in Between years" spanning when a camper is worth maintaining because it's new and when it's old enough to be vintage. During those years most campers sit unused out in the elements. MDF turns to mush when it gets wet. Not slow spreading rot...just mush.
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Post by aslmx on Jan 24, 2020 10:19:49 GMT -8
I wouldn't trade my JC Higgins canvas tent for this thing... 87 is NOT vintage. “87 is not vintage” You mean I’ve been saving these Motley Crue tee shirts for nothing? |
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Post by vikx on Jan 24, 2020 12:13:08 GMT -8
Cotton lasts longer than mush...
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Post by mobiltec on Jan 24, 2020 16:00:16 GMT -8
The thing about the way we use the term vintage is this. Vintage is a very subjective word. Context is key. Up untill 50s trailers got hard to find, we in the hobby used the term vintage as a blanket era to cover trailers built as late as the mid 60s. I like to refer to the things that I call vintage as mid-century-modern which is an era spanning from 1945 to 1965. Anything older is antique and anything newer is junk. LOL not really. Anything newer is just not "vintage" to me.... To young people I'm an antique. I'm stuck in the 50s. But I like it here.
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