Re: [VAC] bambi/cruisette

["Robert C Townsend" <rctowns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(From Don Reason's 'History' page):

 

"When I first began writing this paper, Dan Dureiko gave me a very complete list of corresponding names and sizes. Published in a recent issue of the Vintage Airstream Club Newsletter was an almost identical list from Bud Cooper, founder of the Vintage Airstream Club. Below I have simply combined the two lists.

 

1940's and 1950's Size     1960's to 1968 Size     From 1969 (new body) Size
        Cruisette 15'                     Bambi 14'                    Caravel 18
        Wee Wind 16'                   Bambi 16'                     Globetrotter 21'
        Bubble 16'                        Pacer  16'                     Safari 23'
        Pacer 17'                         Bambi II 17'                   Tradewind  25' 

        .....                                 .....                                .....

[list continues, abbreviated here... Tuna.]

 

This suggests to me that there were in fact a few 14' 'Bambi's made in the early '60's... anyone ever seen one?

 

The price on the IowaBoys' listed 'Wee Wind' is just a tad out of my price range at the moment - but man, what a sweet little trailer!

 

Thanks to all who've replied so far - still looking for that 'baby Airstream'...

 

Tuna.