VAL Digest V1 #61

VAL Digest          Sunday, November 9 2003          Volume 01 : Number 061




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Topics in Today's Digest:

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[VAL] Re: (no subject)
[VAL] Re: 
[VAL] rebuilding a classic
Re: [VAL] rebuilding a classic
Re: [VAL] rebuilding a classic
Re: [VAL] AirStream Family

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Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 14:07:47 +0000
From: "seana carroll" <seana_carroll@xxxxxxxxxx.com>
Subject: [none]

I am beginning to restore my '68 Overlander (26') Can anyone give me an
aprox  price on a project like this with only the bare essentials in mind
ie frame repair, floor replacement, toilet/plumbing restoration etc...?
Thanks. 

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Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 09:57:17 EST
From: JSmith1805@xxxxxxxxxx.com
Subject: [VAL] Re: (no subject)

When I restored/customised my TradewindI thought other than my labour it 
would not cost too much ovse the years I spent a$100 hear and there until if I 
eaver added it up it would drive me T o sevear DREPRESSION,.You need to look on 
it as a hobby as I believe as far as a finational investment it is a total loss 
But the reward is in the sense of achivement.
Jim Smith& Little Hemorid(The Pup)
1965Tradewind(The Silver Abaltross)
1992 Dodge Cummins Diesel.

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Date: Sat, 8 Nov 03 11:04:51 -0700
From: Roy Lashway <rlashway@xxxxxxxxxx.com>
Subject: [VAL] Re: 

>I am beginning to restore my '68 Overlander (26') Can anyone give me an
>aprox  price on a project like this with only the bare essentials in mind
>ie frame repair, floor replacement, toilet/plumbing restoration etc...?
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$7000.00

Roy Lashway
'78 Argosy,'56 Bubble
WBCCI 1610     VAC
rlashway@xxxxxxxxxx.com
web site: www.zianet.com/rlashway
   (polishing report included)  

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Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 13:33:42 -0600
From: schuetzen - RKBA! <chasm@xxxxxxxxxx.net>
Subject: [VAL] rebuilding a classic

On Sat, 8 Nov 03 11:04:51 -0700, Roy Lashway <rlashway@xxxxxxxxxx.com> wrote:

>
>$7000.00

if you do all the labor yourself and have no skin damage and get the absolute
rock bottom price on all the parts IF you can even find them, yada -- you MIGHT
get it done for  7K$...
I was quite happy to turn mine over to a great friend who has since
reconstructed his trailer although it is one size down from yours.  
I had an easy $1.5k in its running gear/tires, etc when I swapped it to him for
considerations unstated here.  perhaps he will own up as to how much more he put
into fixing up the interior and windows, appliances, etc.  Most of us really do
not count the $$$ because we would never take on such a project if we were
empowered to be able to look down the road and foresee the cost in labor and
dollars.  
As stated, it is a hobby that keeps us busy in our retirement fixated on an
object we hope to get done while we are still young enough to enjoy the trailer.
For some of us, it is a last effort towards "accomplishing something with our
lives" as we near the end of our trips thru life.  

I do much the same thing with vintage single shot rifles, etc.  

fwiw
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Charles L Hamilton,  chasm@xxxxxxxxxx.net  Houston, TX
WBCCI/WDCU #1130  VAC   S*M*A*R*T
'76 Sovereign   '02 E350 SD PSD, Prodigy, Pullrite
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Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 15:30:59 -0500
From: "Jim Greene" <drgreene@xxxxxxxxxx.net>
Subject: Re: [VAL] rebuilding a classic

I am the friend who continued the restoration of the ' 68 Tradewind that
Charles had begun when I acquired it from him. As Charles said, I didn't
consider the cost as even a consideration in redoing the trailer and I have
never totaled up all the receipts for the expenses I incurred in the
project. I still have the receipts as a part of the history of this
Airstream and maybe one day I will add them up. Short of that, I would SWAG
the cost of repairs I did to be in the neighborhood of $7,000. That does not
include the cost of the earlier work Charles had done. When I relocated the
trailer to Atlanta and applied for registration plates with the motor
vehicle department, the plate I was issued was 7000 DC. Since we are members
of the Washington, DC unit of WBCCI, I thought that was an appropriate tag
for me.

Jim Greene
' 68 Tradewind

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From: "schuetzen - RKBA!" <chasm@xxxxxxxxxx.net>
To: <valist@xxxxxxxxxx.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 2:33 PM
Subject: [VAL] rebuilding a classic


> On Sat, 8 Nov 03 11:04:51 -0700, Roy Lashway <rlashway@xxxxxxxxxx.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >$7000.00
>
> if you do all the labor yourself and have no skin damage and get the
absolute
> rock bottom price on all the parts IF you can even find them, yada -- you
MIGHT
> get it done for  7K$...
> I was quite happy to turn mine over to a great friend who has since
> reconstructed his trailer although it is one size down from yours.
> I had an easy $1.5k in its running gear/tires, etc when I swapped it to
him for
> considerations unstated here.  perhaps he will own up as to how much more
he put
> into fixing up the interior and windows, appliances, etc.  Most of us
really do
> not count the $$$ because we would never take on such a project if we were
> empowered to be able to look down the road and foresee the cost in labor
and
> dollars.
> As stated, it is a hobby that keeps us busy in our retirement fixated on
an
> object we hope to get done while we are still young enough to enjoy the
trailer.
> For some of us, it is a last effort towards "accomplishing something with
our
> lives" as we near the end of our trips thru life.
>
> I do much the same thing with vintage single shot rifles, etc.
>
> fwiw
> --
> Charles L Hamilton,  chasm@xxxxxxxxxx.net  Houston, TX
> WBCCI/WDCU #1130  VAC   S*M*A*R*T
> '76 Sovereign   '02 E350 SD PSD, Prodigy, Pullrite

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Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 16:43:28 EST
From: JSmith1805@xxxxxxxxxx.com
Subject: Re: [VAL] rebuilding a classic

Jim I think that plate is kinda neet. Much the same reasion I applied and got 
the Purple Hart plate for my Tradewind.Funny thing happened last summer I had 
a person come up to me and ask how he could get one of those neet plates!!!!!
Jim Smith Mary & (Little Hemroid) The Pup
1965 Tradewind(The Silver Abaltross)
1992 Dodge Cummins Diesel

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Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 18:51:35 -0700
From: "Kenneth E. Johansen" <johansen@xxxxxxxxxx.net>
Subject: Re: [VAL] AirStream Family

Chris

My family has a summer home over in Sussex (Lake Wallkill) - sometime when
I'm there I'll have to look you up and check out the new trailer.  I almost
bought a 57 off route 206 a few years ago.

Ken Johansen
75 Tradewind

At 06:26 AM 11/7/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi All,
> 
>I would like to thank everyone for all their advice and insight into this.
 We are really enjoying the feeling of the Airstream family.  Having been
camping for years now as a family we have made some good friends.  Walking
into a larger and friendlier Family is a bonus.  I think we pretty much
decided that we want it, unless after this weekend's cleaning, I find
something Major with it we will be purchasing it.
> 
>Once again thanks.  Hope to meet some of you on the road.  I sure I'll be
doing my share of asking questions.
> 
>Chris, Amy, Natalie, Jordan Tognetti
>Willie (Alaskan Malamute)
>59 TradeWind
>Newton, New Jersey
> 
>P.S.  Anyone in North New Jersey close by willing to come take a look?
>
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