Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

a matched set, eh?

 

the original (and pretty cool) "Tiny House"

 

inside the 'Tiny House"





In the days of cheap-ass McMansions, sometimes it is fun to look at what life was like in a smaller - and better built America.

 

Looks like a Spartan, in real nice condition.

 

It's a bad@zz little trailer!

 

Yes. The Spartan line (Manor and Mansion) were built in a WWII leftover aircraft factoryin Tulsa OK. . Very well built, in fact.

When a mass-produced, slapped together shack in Levittown (800 sq ft) on property sold for $8K new, A full sized Spartan sold for $4K+ and had to go on a rental lot for most people.
The Spartan Executive Mansion (what a wonderful name, eh?) is an 8 x 50 footer - 400 sq feet.

Now that the Tiny Home (or, the economy is so shit I can't find a good paying full-time job) movement has caught on, these oldies have come into their own. I just saw a restored/updated 38 footer selling for $95K.



Before you cringe, restored Airstreams go for that or more.

BYW - $4k in 1955 is the = 36,560 of today dollarettes.

I wouldn't buy a restored unit, but gently used units are still to be found - usually at good prices.

 

This is a 1959 26 foot Airstream 'Tradewind' a bit shorter than the Spartan.

 

Aussie LBE

 

But what kind of crap in a bottle is it carrying......

 

Actually looks like a budsludge bowtie on the necks.

 

Looks like I will be hauling a whole semi truck load of that back to Phoenix tomorrow!

 

I'll see your bando, and raise you a forest....

Merry Christmas, indeed.


They may do things big in Texas, but Texans have never seen German beer like this....

 

1961 Bambi.

First year for the popular Bambi, it replaced the 16 foot Pacer from a year before, but with a whole new body, axle and layout. The trailer was not customizable, and the Bambi remains much the same for all three years. The optional Jalousie window in the door vs. a vent door, and double vs. twin streetside bed was about the only options. For 1961 and 1962, the easiest way to tell a California from Ohio Bambi is the location of the toilet – streetside from California, curbside from Ohio.

A total of about 1100 Bambi’s were made between California and Ohio, not counting the 1964 Bambi II’s.

The Bambi is one of the most popular of all the Airstreams, owing to its diminutive size, cute factor, the fact it was totally self-contained with a very livable layout for two people and was ideal for weekend trips. The Bambi was also offered as an inexpensive Airstream of the time, and as a result, many of the “as-found” trailers are in very sad shape and can cost up to $10,000 to restore. It is not advisable to overly customize or change the Bambi layout, as that seems to wreck any resale value. Very popular with the vintage car group.

\\Vintage Airstream - Airstream Trailer Resource


Bt 1964, major changes were made

 

I don't know....I'm a Toohey's Old kinda guy... Tooheys Old - Wikipedia (taken with a dash of Stone's Green Ginger Wine)....

Ginger wine - Wikipedia)

We should have a beer sometime.

 

I still have some horror memories of drinking too much Stone's in one night !!! To be young and stupid again !!! There is always Dr Jurd's Jungle Juice if you are hard up !!

Where are you based Chell ?

 

Have had similar experiences with several varieties of spirituous liquors as a subaltern, which I have fortunately survived and outgrown. Not even I have been desperate enough to partake of Dr Jurd's.

I'm Based in Sydney, but my travels occasionally take me further afield.

 

I too am in the festering hole that is Sydney these days, Hills District.