The SunshineInn

[prohandyman]

All right...several people from my project idea group (family and friends), have given me a new task...a Whetzeldorf...with a bathroom, and...a galley on the back similar to a teardrop. Enter the world of travel trailer I have. Here is the basic idea I am looking for....a wonderful vintage camper called Buttercup, in yellow and white. Hence my new name the Sunshine Inn. It will be 2ft longer than the standard Whetzeldorf, same width with the water closet using up 30 or so inches of the interior counter and cabinets. I have the skins from a 1959 Metzendorf 10', and will use them as a pattern. Thats all I could salvage from a junkyard camper. Even the frame was junk. May have bright polished top, front and back.

I have a pop up Frame with similar dimensions, that has already been stripped, cleaned, painted today, and the floors are being cut...drop floor as usual in front of bed. Fender wells fabricated. A/c readied for under bed position. Standard trailer wheels are to be fitted with hub cap clips and moon caps installed. Have Joulosie windows on the shelf to use, as the Metzendorf windows were missing.

[KCStudly]

Cool. I would like to follow along, so be sure to post lots of pics and details! Whoot, whoot!

[rebapuck]

You don't waste time jumping onto the next one, do you? Will be following this one, too.

[prohandyman]

I just enjoy building campers. By the way...this one has now been put on the back burner already as I have a deposit on a Whetzeldorf and have to build it first.

[working on it]

I just enjoy building campers.

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work" - Aristotle

[mikeschn]

If I put a deposit on a SunshineInn, would you have to build that first?

Mike...

[prohandyman]

Nope...it would be next in line. Damn...I have never had a waiting list before!

[PKCSPT]

I am surprised you haven't, I love your trailers. You do great work.

[prohandyman]

Finally back on the project. Floors and wheel wells done. Positioning the a/c, water tank and potty.

[prohandyman]

Walls splined and glued up

[prohandyman]

Cabinets mocked up and porta potty under cushion on left

[prohandyman]

The body will be right at 11ft long. And interior walls and cabinetry will finished in birch, stained to resemble aged birch walls.

[prohandyman]

Latest construction pics

[prohandyman]

Got the hatch made today

[prohandyman]

In keeping with the vintage theme, I am using birch interior wood, stained and finished to appear aged birch, and using some vintage hardware for doors and drawers. Here is the drawer under the bed


Also have a few "headboard lights" and will install 12 volt bulbs in them