Article and photo by Rob Baedeker
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/08/29/moneytales082911.DTL
King of the road: The value of a vintage travel trailer
In the San Francisco Chronicle this morning:
"…We bought our trailer sight unseen for $600 off of Craigslist in December from a construction worker named Shawn, who lives in southern Washington state.…But in our journey to purchase and restore a relic-on-wheels from the mid-20th century, we entered another world of nostalgia and old-fashioned craftsmanship. We also, I've found out, joined up with a long American tradition of camper life, one that began flourishing with the automobile boom of the 1920s, and which embodies some deeply held American ideals, from the freedom of the road, to self-sufficiency, to the paradoxical use of technology to get back to nature.…
Article and photo by Rob Baedeker
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/08/29/moneytales082911.DTL
Article and photo by Rob Baedeker
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/08/29/moneytales082911.DTL
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Is this a Shasta? My dad used to have one...
I have a 1963 Garway that I am saving and keeping in perfect condition ...EVERYTHING in her is original , it was all taken out sandblasted and repainted, shes a beaut .....I can not wait to be able to live in her in the winter & my 2 bedroom park model in the summer....
Yep, that's definitely a Shasta.
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