Just a couple hundred hours

This was the interior when I brought her home



this is about two months ago with the old fridge and cabinetry



And the newest cabinetry/fridge

 

Whats with all the thermostats?

Looks great inside as well! You did a wonderful job with it!

 

Thanks! The furnace is 12V, AC is run off 110 (so it's a 24V tstat) and the last is a carbon monoxide detecter.

 

Wow, that is amazing how you've transformed it!! Good job on both interior and exterior!

 

Curious, have you had any trouble blocking the sidewalk with the TT?

 

Nope, I block it just fine, no troubles at all.

Actually, it only comes home on the weekends, Friday afternoon through Sunday when I'm working on it, and typically I'll bring it home on a Wednesday or Thursday if we're going camping and we'll leave with it in tow the following morning.

 

that airstream is jaw dropping. great work!!! really turned it into a piece of art!


here was a quick vid from the last trip.

 

Dude, that's like 'trailer ****' or something!

 

OMG, do you take orders? That interior would look sweet in my '76 sovereign!

 

I have been doing some work on my Avion with some of the end results to be very similar to Hokies Airstream.

We bought a rear bedroom trailer so our young kids could be asleep in the bedroom and we could still use the bathroom without waking them. The previous owners had removed the dinette and replaced the flooring with some glue down laminate flooring. My wife and I slept on the goucho sofa. If you could call it sleep. It just was horrible way to attempt to sleep. So I just ripped out the sofa goucho and replaced it with a platform for a full size mattress. I also ripped out the previous owner attempt at flooring. I didn't like not having a sofa, and since I was this far...... Out came the new dinette. I made a bench for a sofa facing the cabinets. Out came the prehistoric microwave and I will add a LCD television and blue ray in that location. I am going to replace the non functioning oven with an electric convection microwave and a gas stove top. Today I just finished painting the ceiling and walls. Again, since I am this far. I am going to update the cabinets and adding solid cherry for the counter tops.

Here are some progress pics:







Here is the old cabinets, and this is what I going to update them to. Tell me what you think?









I have to box in the cabinets for the new oven, and then work on counter tops, new sink, and tv system.

 

saw this today, thought about how far we have come. from towing with 6 cylinder sedans...

 

Russ, you'd be amazed at how many folks tow campers with 4 and 6 cyl vehicles outside North America. Granted smaller campers, but still going every summer.

 

i guess my point did not come across correctly.

its amazing how today alot of Americans feel they need a 400hp 800TQ diesel pickup to tow there camper when not that long ago we used the family sedan to do the same job. that it doesn't take a huge high HP truck to take the family camping. don't get me wrong i love towing with my Ex but it is way overkill for the little camper i tow.

 

Is that what the guy in the car told you?

 

That car was built before the interstate highway system was built (no need to accelerate to 70 MPH) and a weight distribution hitch was not in the original configuration either.

In Europe little diesel vehicles pull a caravan (travel trailer), plenty of torque but little acceleration.