It has been awhile since I posted anything. We have had a busy winter. Our whole February was booked, some of it in Florida. While we were playing our AS was at the AS dealership awaiting work to be done.
    Long story short, it didn't happen. We finally got the guy who was supposed to do the work to answer us and he had quit! He was the only tech.


    I am a member of Facebook's Airstream Addicts page, and lucky for me a friend and fellow addict helped us out. Jim Roy of Silver Moose Restorations, (see his FB page), had done an incredible restore/remodel on his vintage AS. We towed our little AS, (I think we are going to name her our Crowe's Nest),  to Maine were Jim lives and he replaced the two exterior panels.

Doesn't that look so much better? The first picture doesn't really show it, but the previous owner had put butterfly stickers all over it! So, so happy they are gone.


   Rick and I have decided to really gut the entire trailer. When Jim replaced the panels he found a lot of rodent stuff, yuck. The wiring is old and we will just feel so much better knowing it is safe and everything is strong, dry and going to last. Really happy with the work Jim did for us!

Gutting the Air Stream.

This past weekend, Rick and I started the interior work on the AS. Rick gutted the wetbath while I took out the front goucho, shelves, curtain tracking. I also pulled up the badly installed flooring, glued in all the bad spots, ugh.


What we found was lots of rot in the wet bath.

Before demolition. The door or sliding door is gone.

The sink is cracked behind the faucet.

The toilet hadn't been used for a very long time.

The space behind the toilet had a net, a imagine for laundry maybe, anyway there was an oil lamp in there.

You can see that repairs were done to the shower pan at some point. But the floor is very soft underneath, cant be good.

This is the wet bath floor underneath the black water tank, since removed.

The rot goes all the way across the back of the trailer, into the closet. So we will have to pull out the closet to get to the rot. I have read that the rear bumper compartment is usually the culprit for this type of water damage. That will be addressed.


  Here are pictures of the front of the AS with it's water damage. I believe this to be from the windows. We will need to seal those.

Front corner, wet but not rotten.

Other side in front, the same thing.

We are hoping to keep the kitchen cabinet and counter, maybe doing a thin set concrete over the Formica top. I think we will also replace the overhead cabinets.

The previous owner replace the original frig with an only electric. It is for sale.

Next the AS is off to the Airstream guy who is going to replace two front corner panels, the air conditioner and add a new rock guard.

Photo taken before using a dent puller.

Before dent puller.

Clear plastic rock guard. Ugly and damaged.

After the dent puller, better but not great.