Our Trailer Blog Launch...

 

We have launched our vintage Shasta blog. I figured a new blog dedicated to Louise was needed for several reasons. For one I'm sure that there are folks that visit here that do not care about camper stuff. Two, there will (I hope) be enough activity to warrant it's own blog. I hope that it will not be taking all of my time away from The Addiction. I am sure that it will be somewhat time consuming at first but will die down after a while. It won't be a post a day type of blog. Maybe a post a month. Perhaps a bit more if there are some cool trailer links or online research to post about. The whole thing won't just be about our trailer. If you dig the vintage trailer stuff be sure to visit. You can find the 1964 Shasta Louise Blog here...

http://1964shastalouise.blogspot.com/

Our "New" 1964 Shasta...

SUCCESS!
Trailer Watch 2009 is over for us. I will give the quick version of the story. I found this Shasta listed on Craigslist Friday afternoon. I contacted the seller a few hours after it was posted. They only wanted a $1000 for it. The only thing was it was 6 hours away in Southern Illinois. They replied quickly and we made the long trek on Saturday. We left Wisconsin at 8 am that morning and returned with trailer in tow at 1 o'clock Sunday morning. That was one long day.

A bit about the trailer... It is a 1964 Shasta 16 SC. It was only owned by one family. We met the original owner. He bought it new in 1964 not far from where he lived. The Shasta is in good shape for the most part. Of course there are a few issues with water damage. I would be surprised if there wasn't. It is missing the iconic Shasta wings and will have to find replacements for them. The back window was taken out and an AC unit was stuffed in there. That will go and will have to find a replacement back window. The only other change is the original boomerang cabinet handles have been replaced. No sweat there either. We look forward to the restoration.

I won't go into to much detail here. I hope to launch another blog dedicated to "Louise". That is her new nickname Molly gave her. It was bought in '64 in St. Louis. St. Louis...Louise. It makes sense to us.

I hope to have the new blog up soon. The reason the for the seperate blog is so that there isn't an overflow of trailer information on this blog. I'm sure that there are folks that don't care for the trailer stuff and just want to see Mid Century stuff normally shown here. I will keep the restoration and other trailer information over there for those that want to see it. Here are a few quick shots taken today. There will be much more on the new site.
So stay tuned for the trailer blog...

The Best Travel Trailer EVER...

I have been kinda hot on travel trailers lately. You know that time of year when you want to get out and about. Doing some searching I came across this trailer...

It is the 1960 Holiday House Model "X" (later named The Geographic). Those lines are so awesome. That big wrap around front window. Wow, this thing is neat.

Bardy Azadmard put together a nice site called www.1960prototype.com showing his trailer and some of the history behind it. Some restro pictures and quite a few ads are also on the site. Man I wish I could get my hands on one of these (if they had made more then one).