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yetibone yetibone is offline
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Eastern Chatham co. NC.
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My travel trailer, new to me.

I bought this old Spartan Royal Mansion 33' travel trailer off Craigslist, 1950 model, with a full bath, and kitchen. All of the appliances, and fixtures are original and intact, except for the furnace. The birch paneling needs some attention, the wiring is all original cloth insulated single strand, and connected to a two breaker, 15 amp service with no ground, so that will need to be upgraded. There's a soft spot in the floor beneath the toilet, and it predates travel trailers with holding tanks, so I need to add a fresh water tank beneath the bed in back, then the grey water, and sewr tanks somewhere.

Streetside front



Cool wrap around front windows




Kitchen and dinette



Kitchen



"Observation Lounge"



Bay window in front



The bedroom windows actually roll down. The PO told me that he thought the regulators were Ford passenger car parts from the '40s, and that the window cranks were late '40s Ford pieces.



My plan is to first go thru all of the utilities and upgrade to some modern hardware. I'll install the fresh water tank, a pump, a 10 gal RV water heater, and new fixtures for the kitchen sink, the bath tub, and bathroom sink. I'll probably keep the toilet though, because it's old and cool looking with all of it's 3 gallon per flush goodness.



I'll have to check out the cooker to be sure it works. It's a small size, but has 4 burners, and once again, looks cool a $#!+.



Next, brakes, trailer wiring, running lights, front jack, tires, etc... Whatever it needs to tow safely. I work on a lot of utility trailers at my job, so this isn't a major thing.

I might have to sell the 928 to fund a tow vehicle though. My '82 Toyota isn't well suited for the task.
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