1966 Starflyte

Ross I put the vin on the other thread for you.

Not really lots of more help, but here is the album:


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I was actually kinda shocked at the condition when I got there. And she had the title. She was asking 800 for it but I got it for 600. So I am feeling lucky today.
Ten, thanks for pics. I think it still had the drain, will inspect more when we pick her up this afternoon. These people owned it for 15 years and the previous owner, from New Mexico, was the original owner. Guess the reason it was so dry, coming from NM and then living under the oaks along the river all these years.

Actually did not remove the tool box, was bolted down good. But made it hard on sharp turns. It is now removed though. We had no trouble with, pulled like new. We had to go and have a tire repaired prior to pulling. It sat thru this years terrible flood a couple weeks ago, on the side of the river, they had it there for 15 years and had removed wheels/tires and put up on blocks. The tires had been stored underneath, well they are down river somewhere now. Owner had some from a different utility trailer and put those on but the tires were not so good. The flood got the door open and took down the apt. fridge they had in it, left it up against the screen door. At least the water entered and exited so mainly just mud to clean out. Have not found evidence of leaks yet.

The model without the shower inside the potty-closet was the later Astroflyte. I had an experience parting one a few summers ago, and was confused by the "astroflyte" name when I first found the listing for it. Remember, the early-60's Astroflytes had the bunk over the hitch, like the Astrodome. I was expecting the bunk-over model, and was looking for parts to help with the canned-ham Airflyte. But I found it to be a gold-stripe version, like the Starflyte.

Shasta seems to have revived the model name when they put together the line that included the Starflyte. In the later part of the 60's when the gold-stripe models were out, they put the model emblems on them, and really distinguished between the models that way. The spear-stripe models didn't have the model emblems, and the distinguishing differences were all in the different layouts.

This may not be all that helpful, but here is the donor Astroflyte I mentioned...



This was the potty closet, or as near as I could get to it at the time...



As to the question of the model, it was advertised as a parts donor, and named as an Astroflyte in the ad, which got me thinking it was early-60's canned ham.  The owner would not have known an Astroflyte from a Model T.   Believe it or not, I found the "Astroflyte" emblem still attached to the skin....below where the "Shasta" emblem had been removed.  It is here at home in my collection now...