1957 Cardinal restoration FOR SALE

[Kevin A]

Doug
the total drop is around 16 inches. Went from a 15 in wheel with 30 inch tall tires to 14 inch wheels with 23.9 inch tires this is after fliping the axle to the top of the leaf springs lowering another 7 to 8 inches.
The wife first response to seeing the trailer lowered was : now we have a cute little trailer like Doug

Regards Mike

Not to be a nit picker but......
My calculations drop your trailer between 10 & 11 inches. You can only count the radius of the tires to determine the amount the axle drops. You have a difference of 6 inches diameter between the old tires and new. The wheel diameter is irrelevant. The centerline of the axle only dropped 3 inches. Add the 7 to 8 inches to that figure and you have a 10 - 11 inch drop. Yeah I know, what a picky sucker I am......
Now that we got that out of the way,

on the restoration job, the trailer looks AWESOME......

[mvperini]

Kevin
you could be right but it still looks cool . before i lowered the trailer i could life the tounge with one hand and roll the trailer around with very little effort. Now the tounge weight has increased to the point it is very hard to lift let alone move the trailer. Question ? why has my tounge weight increased?

Mike

[doug hodder]

Mike...you are a month older...just an idea...Doug

[Gage]

Looks nice Mike. I hope my Field and Stream comes out half as nice. Oh wait, I'm painting mine so I guess it will be half as nice.

[mvperini]

2bits wanted some pictures of the work involved in repairing dry rot. not as bad as i thought it was going to be will have to replace 3 sheets of birch and a couple of runners at the bottom, most of the tear down is complete, going to town to pick up the new birch panels and lumber in the morning


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should have the panels and the skin back on by this weekend

Regards Mike

[2bits]

Thank you so much for the photos! My Mom's trailer that she is giving me is in similar shape so I really wanted to see how you tore into it section by section and replaced what was needed. I couple of pictures are worth 2000 words! Thank you!

[mvperini]

2bits wrote
Thank you so much for the photos! My Mom's trailer that she is giving me is in similar shape so I really wanted to see how you tore into it section by section and replaced what was needed. I couple of pictures are worth 2000 words! Thank you!

if you look on youtube for 1959 deville rebuild this guy has documented every step of the restoration , i learned a lot very helpful.
Mike

[mvperini]

Did some more work on the trailer tonight
Trying to remove all the trim so i can lift the top metal off the trailer so i can install the new birch paneling, the guy that had this trailer before me must have had stock in a paving company
Every screw in this trailer had this stuff on it had to take a wire wheel and paint remover to get at the screws.

click on picture to go to photo album

Another panel taken out one more to go


Regards Mike

[2bits]

2bits wrote
Thank you so much for the photos! My Mom's trailer that she is giving me is in similar shape so I really wanted to see how you tore into it section by section and replaced what was needed. I couple of pictures are worth 2000 words! Thank you!

if you look on youtube for 1959 deville rebuild this guy has documented every step of the restoration , i learned a lot very helpful.
Mike

Hey thanks, I search You tube for 1959 deville rebuild, and different variations of, and couldn't find anything. Could I beg you for a linky? Thanks

[2bits]

Think I found it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nUdSruMEz0

[mvperini]

here is a link to his website
http://www.sirioboxers.com/indexDeville.html

Mike

[doug hodder]

Mike...I love the radiused corners on the interior woodwork...Looking forward to seeing this baby at the Dam next year, right? Doug

[2bits]

Thanks for the link! I didn't reply because I was up until 4am watching trailer restoration videos!

[mvperini]

Satuday took the teardrop trailer and car to a local Car show, had a great time answering all the Questions... took best vintage. When i got home i decided to take the metal off of the roof so i could start woking on the trailer Sunday

Started working on the trailer about 10:00 AM after taking the wife to breakfast and shopping



Had to replace both end pieces on the trailer along with some of the wood supports not bad for 8 hrs of hard labor


Regards Mike

[doug hodder]

Mike....you're blowin' and goin'....did you polish by hand, or use an angle buffer on it? Doug