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About a month or so ago, I bought an older travel trailer to use for camping, and hopefully for traveling with. This trailer is a smaller single axle camper trailer sometimes referred to as a "canned ham" trailer due to the shape of the body. I'm guessing that this trailer was built in the early 1950s, making it older than I am. This trailer may have been built by Shasta, but there's no way that I'm aware of to be sure about that.
The trailer is 14 feet and about 6 inches long from the tip of the hitch to the back end, it's about 80 inches wide, and stands roughly 8 feet tall at the top of the curved roof.
These pictures are from the day I got it home
A better picture of the left side once I got it parked in the back yard by the alley.
The inside, as it was when I got it. The crappy plywood inside is what had been the interior wall paneling before the former owners pulled it off the walls.
As you can see, it had been gutted by the people who I bought it from. They were planning on rebuilding it to a "glamper", but they had several other trailer projects that they were also working on, and decided to sell this as is.
I knew when I bought the trailer that it would need a lot of work to make it usable again, I just wasn't sure how much work that would be. It turned out that I need to replace a fair amount of wood framing along the edges where the walls and roof meet, especially in the back end, due to years of roof leaks, a not uncommon problem with old travel trailers.
In the next post in this series, I'll show you what I found under the floor plywood in the back of the trailer, where I decided to start the rebuild.
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