Vintage Airstream

After about a year, it as time to upgrade! Hubby bought a new truck, so it meant something bigger, and silver.  My Airstream dream was finally coming TRUE!

We found a '62 Overlander just a few miles from us in the local Classifieds.  It was to good to be true, and I was sure something big was wrong, but nope! She came home with us.... Again, we are "those neighbors", but no one complained.  

Here are before and afters.... This time a Flamingo Cocktail Lounge (noticing a theme?) She was built the same month and year that Marilyn Monroe tragically passed, I named her Marilyn as a tribute (curves for days).  

 

A Passion for Retro Goodness

I'll start at the beginning... "a very good place to start".

Why did we acquire our first Vintage Trailer? We had to evacuate our house, of course.  We had a sweet Labrador who was blind from diabetes.  We couldn't go to a hotel.  Our wonderful friends put us up for night, but all day we kept thinking, "we will be home in a hour", except it was 25 hours later.

I had talked about a Vintage Airstream forev-er.  Even before I knew vintage trailers were a "thing".  Needing (ok, wanting) a vintage trailer, the evacuation made it seem like a really good idea.  We purchased our first... a 65 Cardinal for $400.

Super cute and turquoise appliances! What-the what?!?  My hubby began stripping out the rotted sections and partially gutting to rebuild what needed to be rebuild (I suddenly realized he'd been hiding some mad carpentry skills from me all these years).  Only one problem.... I didn't stay off the Classifieds.

Meet the second trailer, a 66 Shasta, purchased within 2 weeks of buying the other.  We are officially "those neighbors" with all the trailers in the driveway.

I named her Priscilla, as in Elvis and....  Tons of original features left, but had been a hunting trailer, and in a barn in Price, UT for 35 years.  The original cushions cleaned up, so orange was the the theme color... and 1960s Elvis meets the Rat Pack meets a Tiki Bar was the theme.

Getting paint in the "paint booth"  We used Tractor Paint with a compressor/sprayer... totally worked.  Literally the day before we took her to our first Tin Can Tourist rally in Utah.

Rhonna Designs App; Starvation Res Campground

Before and afters.  Fabric and wallpaper from Spoonflower

Photos from some Rally's and Glamping Trips.  Always a star at every campground.  

The perfect Moab combination (Rhonna Designs App)