We bought the 1969 Airstream Overlander trailer about a year ago. It’s a 27-footer and in great shape for its advanced age. My hubby and brother tore out the interior and the plan was to rebuild it from the ground up.
Derek studied YouTube videos all winter and drew floor plans and we dreamed and schemed about the best ways to do things. Spring came and our lawn was dug up twice for sewer pipe replacements and between trying to restore order inside and out, evenings and weekends were gobbled up. Mid-June came and we realized the trailer was down on the list of priorities. This project would take several years at best and losing a season or two would be a big deal. So we decided to pass the dream onto someone else.
We had lots of inquiries to our Kijiji ad. One guy wanted to come from Sudbury to see it. Derek took some video of the interior and exterior for him and all systems were go. After we said we’d wait until Sunday for him, we got three more serious phone calls from men who wanted to know if it didn’t sell.
The guys arrived as promised and after a tour around southwest London to find the right size hitch ball, the agonizingly slow process of getting the thing out of our back yard got underway!
Various vents and other things on top of the trailer threatened to take the cap off the front of our breezeway. There was a lot of stopping and backing up and starting and using a cool little trailer puller thing before they could finally hook up and head back home.
I’ll admit it was a little sad. But we’ll get photos from Mike and his Dad Tony as they make the Airstream into a family camping trailer and we’ll put our efforts into other things.
