Just my two cents- I'm unaware of any Airstream museums or concours type
competitions which justify a 'museum quality restoration', and IMHO even an
Airstream is only a travel trailer; getting these things to where they can be
used is more important than having a 'historically correct' unit, wouldn't you
say? Sure, it's nice to have one that's just like it was when it came off the
line, but if rain and rats and Uncle Larry's bad habits have trashed the
existing stuff, I don't see where taking a bunch of useless crap out the door
is any kind of sin. I'm in the ( painfully slow) process of emptying a 64
TradeWind, retiling the floor, and installing a bunch of high quality
restaurant items to use it as a mobile coffee shop, and my feeling is that it
will be more useful than the grubby husk of a trailer it was when I got it.
CB Rollins