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Post by crookedcreek on Oct 23, 2013 15:50:37 GMT -8
Hi all...
I am a newbie - both to this board and to owning a vintage trailer. After years of wanting and 6 months of serious (daily) looking, I finally decided 2 weeks ago to pull the trigger. I had my heart set on a 50's birch interior Shasta or the like but the affordable ones were states away and I couldn't buy something sight unseen. If I could find a way to get to the far away ones and look, they were always sold in hours and I could never call on one that I was interested in without it selling first. FOUR hours on the market was the last one I was calling on! The great looking ones were too expensive for me, so I decided to stick within a couple hours drive and ended up finding a '68 Shasta come up in great condition on Craigslist and bought it the next day. It had the title and the older gentleman who sold it to me was very kind and helpful.
I posted the pictures of our new camper to a couple Shasta FB boards to be told immediately that it was not a Shasta. ("What? It has the title and emblems!!!" ) I guess it made sense. Afterall, I was confused on why I found papers inside a storage area that said Chateau Traveler on the front of a 1969 catalog. I am so curious why it was listed on the title as a '68 Shasta (a guess after a title was lost??) and why the emblems and wings were added. The older man we bought it from had it since '92 and he sold the wings and filled holes and repainted. I asked why he sold them and he said that it was for the money he could get for them on eBay. So my guess is whoever owned it in the 70's and 80's lost the title and then it was goofed on the new one.
Anyhow, no matter what it is, it seems very sound, fits our bigger family and is ready to travel!!
Anyone else seen one of these? I will now try to load pictures of what I believe is a fine looking '69 Chateau Traveler! (crossing fingers)
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Post by crookedcreek on Oct 23, 2013 15:55:39 GMT -8
Yeah, that didn't work!
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mobiltec
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Post by mobiltec on Oct 23, 2013 20:01:06 GMT -8
There is a photos turorial in the INFO forum at the top of the home page.
Im going to start to add wings to all of my trailers so they will all be Shastas....
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Post by vikx on Oct 23, 2013 20:59:15 GMT -8
There is a photos turorial in the INFO forum at the top of the home page.
Im going to start to add wings to all of my trailers so they will all be Shastas.... Snicker. Crookedcreek, I think you still have a good trailer. Hope to see pix soon. VK
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Post by cowcharge on Oct 24, 2013 12:08:02 GMT -8
Someone, at some time, did exactly what mobiltec was joking about, no doubt for nefarious reasons.
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