Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

by **dmb90260** » Fri May 11, 2007 1:30 pm

This trailer was at the Vail Lake Rally last year. I never did get a good look at it.

There are more pictures at:
http://groups.msn.com/AeroFliteTrailers/vaillakeresortrally.msnw

The reason I ask is a friend of mine has found a 1937 photo album with shots of several trailer trips to the Mammoth Mtn area. One of the trailers looks very much like this one. I am trying to get the album so I can scan some of the pictures.

by **SkipperSue** » Fri May 11, 2007 1:37 pm

Now that's just slicker than owl snot!

I really like the looks of this one alot.

by **Ira** » Fri May 11, 2007 1:48 pm

Gage will know. That trailer has shown up here before.

He stores photos of all of these things, while I prefer to store photos of girls with triple D's.

I'm a lot younger and more virile than he is, so to each his own.

by **madjack** » Fri May 11, 2007 2:15 pm

...I' am racking my poor ol' CRS ridden brainpan and just can't remember ever seeing that one...and that one is just GOTTA BE one of the COOOOLEST campers, I have seen...WOW
madjack

by **Podunkfla** » Fri May 11, 2007 2:36 pm

Yep... On a scale of 1 - 10 that's gotta be a 12! COOL CAMPER!!! :thumbsup:

by **Laredo** » Fri May 11, 2007 8:42 pm

Go back to that album (I can't post a link or a photo for some reason

and take a look at the picture of the interior of the Airstream.

Those are some seriously beautiful appliances!

And that tear looks like a Chummy clad in stainless, doesn't it?

by **Gage** » Fri May 11, 2007 9:18 pm

Laredo wrote:<snip>
And that tear looks like a Chummy clad in stainless, doesn't it?

What tear? I didn't see any tears there.

by **Ma3tt** » Fri May 11, 2007 9:25 pm

Dang I knew Gage would argue that rather than Ira's tease! :lol:

by **Gage** » Fri May 11, 2007 9:35 pm

Dennis, it looks like it may be a very early (30's) Airstream over-restored. Don't know for sure, just a guess. Darn, I knew I should have gone down there last year.

by **Laredo** » Sat May 12, 2007 12:17 am

That's Dean Tennis' original tear. The Chummy II, built to replace it after some booger-brained streetracing Bubba in far west Texas turned it into matchsticks one bright morning and put Mr. Tennis in the hospital -- incidentally totalling his car -- is a thing of beauty, a bit like a cross between a sail-driven Corsair and a Conestoga. I'm given to understand that the original weighed well under 500 pounds, loaded, and was possessed of copious quantities of aircraft-style fabric-and-dope construction (roof, door, possibly more).

The trailer in the photo at http://groups.msn.com/AeroFliteTrailers/vaillakeresortrally.msnw -- still can't link to fracking MSN albums, drat it -- is advertised as an Aero Flite -- although not, apparently, the Falcon model the company built from 1947 to 1949 in Van Nuys, CA. Perhaps it is a Hawk, although that is described as an 18-footer elsewhere; perhaps it is an early Byum/Airstream or prototype. It might also be an early Bowlus; the photos, while delectable for their detail of the windows, interior trim and taillights, are singularly uninformative with regard to any makers' mark or builders' tag the item might possess.

However, there is a 2nd trailer in that album, clearly an Airstream type, inside which are some pristine white and turquoise blue appliances.

by **dmb90260** » Sat May 12, 2007 12:58 am

This trailer is much larger than Chummy II which shows up at Spamboree most years. My friend with the album thinks her photo shows the same trailer. I am will get copies of the pictures to post, eventually.

by **Gage** » Sat May 12, 2007 1:22 am

"It might also be an early Bowlus;"
All your Bowlus right from the getgo had front entry. That's one reason I didn't even consider it. Yep, it could be an Aero Flite but the shape of the front window is what is throwing me off on that direction. :thinking:

Man I wish I had gone down there for at least the day.

by **dmb90260** » Sat May 12, 2007 9:12 am

Dayton Taylor put on the Vail Rally. If he is at the Newport Rally he should have some information. I will be there on Saturday and ask if he is there.

by **Gage** » Sat May 12, 2007 12:21 pm

dmb90260 wrote:Dayton Taylor put on the Vail Rally. If he is at the Newport Rally he should have some information. I will be there on Saturday and ask if he is there.

Is that this weekend? It may be the last sponsered by Craig. I hear that he is moving back to Maine :applause:

I was having a senior moment last night and couldn't think of Daytons name. I think the trailer we're talking about is one of his restores.

by **Laredo** » Sat May 12, 2007 2:25 pm

Gage wrote:"It might also be an early Bowlus;"
All your Bowlus right from the getgo had front entry. That's one reason I didn't even consider it. Yep, it could be an Aero Flite but the shape of the front window is what is throwing me off on that direction. Man I wish I had gone down there for at least the day.

Thanks, Gage. I was working off the picture of the aft end when I theorized about design; those arrow-shaped turn lights are beautiful, but beyond them is a "tailplane" structure that looked, to my unpracticed eyes, very like a Bowlus back. The front of this is pretty rounded, but the top of the door has a curve and an eyebrow rain deflector, which put me in mind of the Chummy.

It would definitely be a coup if someone could get the trailer's restorer / owner to comment on this little beauty, wouldn't it?

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