[VAL] Airstream Worktruck

[Doug Rowbottom <mossbackdoug@xxxxxxxxx>]

The cover of the Vintage Advantage newsletter Volume 7, Spring 2000, Issue 
#3 has a picture of the work truck with another in the background. It was 
made of a piece of trailer, with flat ends, mounted on a Chevy truck frame. 
There were 3 made for the African rally of 59. There is a reference on page 
336 of Cape Town to Cairo book of the three self-contained trucks in which 
four young men rode.

On page 239 of Cape Town to Cairo you will see a 30  trailer with the axels 
raised and on page 110 of Airstream, The History of the Land Yacht ,3rd from 
the left is the same trailer. It was the longest trailer on the African rally. 
It was the Graboski family with 16 year old daughter Tony and 12 year old son 
Michael. At the end of the rally Tony married Art Ruiz, then 21 year old 
mechanic for Airstream who travelled in one of the work trucks. He had a 
record player and attracted the younger people on the rally with it. At the 
end of the Cape Town movie the marriage is mentioned. Still married in 2000 
and living in Texas. 

In 2000 when we met them at Fredericksburg Texas rally, Michael said he has 
one of the work trucks . It was in bad shape and he was thinking of restoring 
it. He lived somewhere in southern Texas at the time and I don't remember 
where. 

Doug
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