> > We tried to argue
> > that many of the aluminum trailers of that period were inspired by
> > Wally's Airstream design and should be allowed to join, but the Big
> > Kahunas at
> > WBCCI squashed it.
> >
> > Seems odd that some 10 years later in an effort to expand
> > the membership they were trying to get non Airstream products into the
> > club.
> >
> > How do they say it?? "What's good for the goose....."
> >
> > WAM
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Wayne - thanks for the info and for working so hard for the "extended family" members
of what really (my 2 cents...) should/could be referred to as the "Bowlus Family of
Aviation Inspired Travel Trailers"!
You may remember that some years ago I began researching the history of a little trailer
I had in my barn - I referred to it as the "Mystery 36".
Well - years have gone by - I sold it to a truly dedicated collector - and it went directly
from my barn to a restoration shop in the Sierras - and it now gleams and glows better than
new. In fact...it will be on display soon - part of a new exhibit in the Grand Salon at the
Petersen Museum in Los Angeles. The write up on the exhibit sounds great - I plan to make a
trip just to see it.
http://www.petersen.org/default.cfm?docid=1066
Meanwhile....back at the barn....sitting in the shadow of my '57 Flying Cloud and my '74 Silver
Streak is a new mystery to be decoded. In fact it's a newer version of the "Mystery 36"....this
is what I'm calling the "39 Special". It was obviously built by the same person/people who built
the "Mystery 36" - it's a few feet longer and is nearly identical to a front kitchen Bowlus - only
by 1939 someone had figured out how to modify the Bowlus style monocoque frame to allow for a
curbside door. This trailer has been cared for and in use all of it's life so I won't have to
restore it from the ground up - it just needs a proper refitting and varnishing and polishing to
continue on for the next 60 years.
RL