it means a lot coming from you. You have built some beautiful teardrops from the pictures I’ve seen. 
The spoke wheels are originals. The trailer frame and the wheels were covered in rust from sitting in my brother-in-laws back yard for 20 – 30 years. It originally had some sort of teardrop on it when my husband’s dad got it and put it in the yard, but the trailer was already falling apart then. My brother-in-law has been cleaning up the yard and he and my husband got to talking about the trailer. My husband, David, wanted to see if any of it could be salvaged as we had talked before that it would be fun to have a teardrop trailer and he liked the wheels.
My husband’s uncle sandblasted everything. The wheels cleaned up beautifully and were in great shape
and much of the frame was made of galvanized steel and that cleaned up beautifully. The tires survived as well, which are the ones that are on it now, of course we will be buying new ones before we start driving it. The parts of the frame that originally had regular steel angle iron didn’t survive, so the uncle welded on new pieces and then primed everything. His uncle likes to restore old cars as a hobby so fixing the trailer frame wasn't any big deal for him. That is the story of our trailer frame and wheels.
Martha
It made more sense to buy a pair of fiberglass ones. They aren't cheap but in comparrison to steel replicas they are.
