About the camper

Let me tell more about the camper itself.  It was owned by the same family for 50 years.  15 years ago the roof leaked over winter.  The owner fixed the leak, but kept the inside original, damage and all.  The sellers, I assume, are the ones that repainted the outside.  You can tell they primed it first and had removed all the windows first.  Reattached them and secured the siding with new screws, think they are aluminum.  A great deal of the ceiling will have to be replaced.  Old, but now dry, water marks on walls hopefully will sand out.  Love the dinette over-head light.  So fifties, has to stay.  What little linoleum on the floor would go anyway, not so cute.  It still has original gas lights.  The more attractive ones also hopefully can be retrofitted to electric.  It has this quirky little chimney that is not attached to anything inside.  Ray thinks it had some kind of stove.  That will have to go when ceiling gets fixed.  The dinette cushions have to original.  They are very sturdy with upolhostery in good shape, but kinda ugly.  Yellow and black.  The sink has no chips.  Will have to look into retrofitting the plumbing.  Luckily Ray is refrigeration specialist, so he can determine viability of the gas/elec. fridge.  Lots of storage.  Porta-potty will fit under bed easily.  Cannot get started on demo until Sun. or Mon.  Will have to be patient.  Not easy for me.   Bye for now.

Hi,   Today Ray and I picked up my 1957 Holly Coach Co. travel trailer.  Two nights ago I bid on it through an auction house's online bidding.  To my great surprise I won.  Then reality set in, "What have I done?"  All I had to go by, were the online pictures.  There were many so a lot of it's faults were visible.  But until we saw it today really didn't know.  Luckily the exterior has had a lot of work already done to it.  Was hoping for an interior restoration project. 

The tires were our first real concern.  We had an 81 mile trip home.  Even in the pictures they looked 54 years old.  But they were holding air so off we went.  It rained really hard on the way home.   Good way to find leaks.  We made it, the old tires held up!

First thing I did was checked for were leaks.  The right or would it be left rear corner was wet.  Damn.  So looks like might need new roof.  Oh well, still hoping this will be fun.  My mind is whirling with ideas.  So much so that's way I'm up at 1 a.m. writing this because I couldn't sleep.

Goodnight to whomever may be reading this.