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We recently bought a 1974 Land Yacht Airstream not
knowing anything about RV's and never even thought or shopped for one. Just
heard it advertised so looked at it , decided price was cheap enough to see if
we'd like camping and then came home and fell in love, found out and joined up
to be able to receive the Blue Beret and then joined the VAC and have just
become fully dedicated to Airstream.
We live on a busy highway and hadn't put
much thought into our find until people started stopping and asking if they
could see it or if they could buy it. That's when we thought we'd better find
out about what we had bought.
As I said, it is a 1974 27' Land Yacht that
was only used for 5 years and then kept in storage so everything is in like new
condition except for the curtains had faded some and it had that closed stale
smell.
Now, I',m wondering if we made a mistake. We
put all new carpet down except for in the kitchen with matching linoleum and
took out the fitted (Top and bottom attached) drapes and hung new drapes
throughout. We left them free flowing on the bottoms and in the back bedroom,
there is a double bed and we took the bottom curtain rail off, cut a link out of
it and moved it to the top so it would come out from the wall a couple of
inches, then proceeded to hang new drapes completely around the entire bedroom
as was originally, making them to open around the windows, and using velcro tabs
to attach to the wall at the bottoms so we
wouldn't have curtain hanging on us while we are in the bed. It looks beautiful
with everything coordinating but I'm wondering, for vintage value, if we damaged
it in value by these changes. We still haven't had it out of the yard as we
hadn't found a receiver hitch to fit and now the wife has become very ill and we
may never get to take it out and now that we know how people feel about these,
we would be just sick to think we had taken anything away from such a precious
piece of history.
Under the circumstances, we have no idea of
what one should or would be worth and no idea of what they cost new but just
haven't taken the time to check the book, or papers etc.
Have we spoiled something dear and precious?
We were thinking that if we couldn't use it that we might sell it to someone who
would appreciate it and treat it
with the respect that we are learning about with
Airstream owners.
We finally found a unit that it close enough
to meet with but because of my wife's health, have not even been able to meet
anyone.
Any input would be
appreciated. Frank Navarro
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