Bought a vintage homebuilt - anyone recognize this design?

[Bellinghamster]

Just bought this vintage homebuilt for $100. It's Masonite, 6x10, and HEAVY on a 1935/36 Chevrolet frame/axel 17" wheels. After a slow, white-knuckled drive on winding roads home from Oak Harbor, WA to Bellingham, it's parked and awaiting storage.

It's old but mostly rot-free...parked indoors for at least 30 years. And the builder put on a second roof (two roofs!) at some point. Roof #2 is definitely coming off, followed by sanding, sealing/priming and new paint. Owned by one family until this summer, then sold to a guy who was about to turn it into a playhouse for his kids before he got sick of looking at it and sold it to me.

[Wolffarmer]

I don't recognize it. Kind of looks like one Kayperkay had.

The 2nd roof, did the builder float it over the original?

Randy

[48Rob]

Neat project you have there!

The double roof may have been part of the original builders plan.
It is an old idea that works very well in hot sunny climates to cool the main roof.
Your trailer, with no insulation in the ceiling would be much like an oven if parked in the sun.

Rob

[jabrobbins]

Very cool! It looks like it is almost a Standy. What is the interior height?

[Bellinghamster]

The double roof may have been part of the original builders plan.
It is an old idea that works very well in hot sunny climates to cool the main roof.
Your trailer, with no insulation in the ceiling would be much like an oven if parked in the sun.

That explains the two 5" or so holes in the top of the inner roof! The outer roof needs to come off, though it's too heavy + in poor shape....hopefully with the three hopper windows and a new vintage Herh vent, things will stay cool. I'm in Western WA so we never get unbearably hot.