by David Grason » Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:50 am
My parents had 2 tears. Although I don't think they ever called them teardrops. One was a Benroy and the other was one they built themselves.
A couple of weeks ago, my mom was going through her attic and found loads of old pictures. Among them were a couple of the old Benroy behind their early 50s Buick at Mt Shasta. My folks were crazy about slide film back then so I need a projector to view the old pics. Also, the film itself has degraded and it looks super redish. I guess that means the blue has washed out. My mom recently bought a program for her computer to correct old photos and digitize them for storage on CD or DVD. As soon as she gets them ready to go, I plan on putting some up so everyone can see them.
So far we have not found any pics of the tear that they made themselves. But the last we saw that tear, my dad had sold it to someone in Shelbyville, Tn. A few years ago, I was at a rod run in Shelbyville and saw what I thought was my folks old tear. It had been restored (somewhat) but my memories of that trailer were just a little to vague to be able to make a positive ID. So needless to say, we've been searching diligently for old photos.
I am NOT a complete idiot! Some of the pieces are missing.