1957 Cardinal restoration FOR SALE

[mvperini]

Doug
using 3m heavy duty polish with angle buffer, when i get the roof back on i will polish the whole trailer with a finer polish to take out swirl marks

the wife is going to hand sand all the birch inside the trailer before we put our finish on Amber Shellac

Mike

[2bits]

Man that looks great!

[mvperini]

Thanks for the kind words Yea i can not wait for to put the roof back on so i can start pulling all the windows to seal them and polish the edges of the metal around the windows before putting them back in. the wife thinks i am Anal about getting every little area on the trailer polished

Question Does anybody know if the trailer came with a rear couch or a bed. the wife wants a bed so she does not have to make the bed every night Me i am looking for more storage and a place for the porta potty

Regards Mike

[mvperini]

for those that want pictures here is one of the service station at the grounds of the Oregon Steam up 2010


Regards Mike

[doug hodder]

Mike...are there any old holes in the walls from a previous remodel or any pattern on the floor that indicates things have changed? A full bed will allow you more storage underneath. For me...the full bed is more practical than a gaucho thing, I'd bet no one wants to convert it every day. Besides...foam and upholstery work is expensive...a mattress is cheaper. I'm shorter on length than yours however, and it's pretty much just me. Doug

[mvperini]

Doug.....
I think it was a gaucho thing, but when i bought the trailer somebody had put a bed frame in the back, but the job was such a hack job i removed and threw everything away , so i will have to design a new bed frame with ample storage


Regards Mike

[mvperini]

started working on the trailer after work tonight, reinstalled the roof so i can start installing the front and rear windows


regards Mike

[2bits]

Oh, just pulled the roof back and replaced the rear of the trailer after winning a show award and back out on the road in a few days! YOU ROCK!!!

[mvperini]

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Oh, just pulled the roof back and replaced the rear of the trailer after winning a show award and back out on the road in a few days! YOU ROCK!!!
Hope to have the trailer ready for a camping trip the first weekend of Oct.
Worked on the rear of the trailer today had to take out all the side runners {2x2] and replace them and added extra support for the floor. now i am making curved runners for the trailer to attach the trim and top and sides

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The weather is also very hot 95 today at the house and with the trailer polished it was like 120 degs may regret polishing the trailer before doing the restoration
regards mike

[2bits]

Just went through your whole album, that is a really nice score I say again! Yeah, I bet it is pretty shiny in your eyes eh! We had a nice cool front come in today and it was the first day that it wasn't a furnace outside in I don't know how long! I hope you can cool down soon too!

[mvperini]

restoration continues, started working on the trailer as soon as i got home from work started at 4:00PM and finished at 6:00PM had to make new curved pieces for the end of the trailer and installed them and installed the inside trim piece. will have to go to the lumber yard in the morning to pick up some lumber and more installation hope to have the back end and the roof completed by this weekend



Regards Mike

[mvperini]

Picture of when i bought the trailer




Picture of how it looked a week ago



picture on how it looks tonight



Hopefully in a couple weeks it will be gone camping in our new TTT

Regards Mike

[mvperini]

Got an early start on the trailer this morning, after i went to the lumber yard for more stuff. Finished with all the installation and new cross members, polished the back piece of skin before installing the skin.


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also started making the bed frame for the rear bed

[mvperini]

Almost forgot about the polisher i was using, had the rear panel on the ground and i was polishing away when i felt a little tingle, was not paying attention and the power cord on the grinder got wraped around the spinning part of the grinder and pulled the cord out of the grinder and made full contact with the aluminum sheet i was polishing. good thing it was only 110 AC. I have a high tolerance to 110. i worked for the power company when i was younger trimming trees from the power lines and made contact with high voltage lines more time than i would like to addmit and lived to talk about it.

Regards Mike

[2bits]

Almost forgot about the polisher i was using, had the rear panel on the ground and i was polishing away when i felt a little tingle, was not paying attention and the power cord on the grinder got wraped around the spinning part of the grinder and pulled the cord out of the grinder and made full contact with the aluminum sheet i was polishing. good thing it was only 110 AC. I have a high tolerance to 110. i worked for the power company when i was younger trimming trees from the power lines and made contact with high voltage lines more time than i would like to addmit and lived to talk about it.

Regards Mike

YIKES! I'll stop my tolerance with a 9v battery!