1955 Canned Ham

[bledsoe3]

Found on Portland Craigslist.
http://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/rvs/315014911.html

[Gage]

Boy he spends time cleaning and painting that 1955 STARFIRE and then forgets to do the wheels.

[48Rob]

Not only that, but the tongue too.

Sure is frustrating to see an ad like that ...they can be very misleading to someone new to old trailers.


The seller writes;
"IT IS ALL ORIGINAL FROM THE HITCH TO THE TAILLIGHTS"
But in the description it says "THIS TRAILER HAS BEEN GONE THROUGH INSIDE AND OUT AND EVREYTHING WORKS."

So is it original? well, the exterior has been painted (not original) the interior has been painted (not original) refurbished icebox (not original) the stove appears to be much newer than 1955...

So, what it really is, is an old trailer that someone painted in the backyard and maybe hung some new curtains.
The paint appears to be coming off the exterior, and most often the interior of old trailers are painted to "hide" water stained wood that generally gets that way from leaks...

And the best part, it has a "basement"!

At least they didn't call it "RESTORED"!!


Okay, I'm climbing down now...

Rob

[Ken A Hood]

It's listed on eBay as well...

LINK

[doug hodder]

I think you are all forgetting..."this trailer may be one of the only ones of it's kind left".....I always like it when they throw something like that in there...Doug

[Gage]

Only $500 on ebay. Now that's about a right price. A course then again, what has been done, right or wrong, $1000 is not that bad of a price either. When I finish doing what I'm going to do to the Santa Fe, I'm going to want more than $1000, and I got it for free.