What came with your vintage trailer?

Ours came with mouse poop (a very distinctive odor), incense candles, paisley upholstery and fortunately, just a small amount of rot. Also some original brochures from the trailer manufacturer,and hunting tips from 1965. I do have pics somewhere. Most of what we found was from the 10 years or so prior to our purchase. There may have been some sign of marijuana here and there as well. I was nervous about that when we took it to Canada last summer, but we had no problems. It is legal now here in Massachusetts.

Mine had a random 1950s vacuum, an old microwave and a few ugly old dishes.
Which it had had the keys!

I have found lots of mouse parts and droppings. One camper was an old dime and the other one was some old matchbooks. I was just starting to take apart the 57 Shasta and remembered this tread. So here you go.


From what I could see the book was printed in 1951.


20200504_182204 by Tom Ress, on Flickr

Hamlet’s PO had originally intended to restore him, but he didn’t have room. He had two Airflytes, a powder blue Model A, and a woodie with a canvas roof. The Compact looked like the poor step child sitting outside his 2000+ sq ft shop. He had cleaned Hamlet up nicely, though, so the only thing remarkable about Hamlet was what he came without...
Front uppers, a couple windows, hubcaps, cushions of any sort, working slides for the cots, and wings.

I've found some cool cartoon postcards about camping life. A pair of boots, rotten jar of fish egg bait (no, I didn't open it!) dishes, kitchen stuff, hitches, a complete JC Higgins tent, kitchen stuff, kids hangers, broken umbrellas, car parts, old food, mouse, bees, wasps, two huge rolls of paper (fish wrap?), lanterns, 63 newspaper, car chains, gas cans, hoses, a super long pry bar (7-8 feet?), folding stools, alcohol, liniments, containers, buckets and the name tag "Kiyono" from Boeing. Most of the above came out of my 57 Shasta 1500. How they fit it all in, I can't guess.

Not my camper but I bought an old boat and when I picked it up it had a cheap little plastic tackle box looking thing in it. The guy said that it was just some old tools and I could have them. I sat the box on a shelf for a long time because it was full of water at the time. One day I went to throw it out and I opened it up, the tools that were in it were all snap on and sk. I spent a couple hours cleaning them up and still use them. Talk about a score.

In addition to one dead mouse (under the dinette drawer), we had some fun finds: roasting sticks, pudgie pie makers, old notebook, fun old match books. 1995 World Atlas (the year our son was born!) The PO also threw in the Welcome sign.



Roasting sticks, pudgie pie makers on Flickr


Old matchbooks on Flickr


Welcome sign on Flickr


1995 World Atlas on Flickr