Vintage Trailer Photos--A Sampler

Trailers, trailers, and more vintage trailers. The true aficionado (OK, the addict) never gets tired of looking at them.

And so, consider yourself indulged. Here's a visual sampler of some of the vintage trailers encountered in our Girl Camping travels. I don't know the exact year of all these, so I'm just going to name their brand. If you see your trailer here, please tell us more about it in the Comments section!

Aristocrat Lil Loafer.

Corvette.

Silver Lark.

Shasta.

Homemade.

Go-Tag-Along.

Scotty.

Aladdin.

Kencraft.

Red Dale.

Aljoa.

Terry.

Airstream.

Got a favorite? 

The Little Little Trailer & Friends

In the beginning, there was The Little Little Trailer, all by herself.  She needed a place to park and call home, which led to her slice of Idaho real estate called Girl Camp.

Then she met another tiny trailer, Cherry Lane, who also needed permanent parking. One thing led to another, and soon Girl Camp became twice as big--big enough to hold several more trailers than two.

An enormous vintage Airstream arrived and took up residence as a guest house.

Then more trailer friends arrived, some of them with watercraft, and all sorts of frivolity ensued.

Now, The Little Little Trailer is surrounded by friends, old and new, and considers herself to be the luckiest little trailer in the world.

(And she thanks you for reading this, too!)

My First Vintage Travel Trailer

You know that line in the 'Pretty Woman' movie, where Julia Roberts asks Richard Gere how come he knows so little about cars, and he replies that his first car was a limousine?

My first trailer was an Airstream.

Not just any Airstream, but a 1970s behemoth that takes up 33 linear feet of parking room and weighs 5,600 pounds before you put anything in it. Takes a one-ton truck to pull her on anything but flat, straight road. Which there is none of where I live.

'So why something THAT big?' you might ask.

Because it was an Airstream. And because that's as much as I knew about vintage travel trailers at the time (except for the fact that I'd fantasized about having one for most of my adult life).

It didn't occur to me that with tow vehicle, this was going to be about 50 feet and 8 tons of rig. And not something I was going to hook up and go camping or traveling with on a whim.

It also didn't occur to me I wasn't going to be rehabbing a camping trailer--I was going to be remodeling a house. And that this was most likely going to take years. Years in which I would not have any time left to go camping.

Those realities would set in soon enough, and my first trailer-love found its purpose as a seasonal guest house/cabin/studio (I'm sitting in her right now, writing this post).

My second trailer--LOL--was this one:

Today's Project: Making A Winter Girl-Fort In The Airstream!

The first of the winter snows blew in last night, for a momentarily depressing realization:

It really is the end of camping season, at least up in northern Idaho, where your friend Girl Camping Girl happens to be. Nobody wants to be out on slick roads with a trailer, and freezing her petticoat off besides.

But then we went 'AHA! The Airstream has a furnace! Let's go turn her into a winter girl-fort instead of just letting her sit there, doing nothing until next summer.'

Here she is, while on a boy-camp outing with Mr. Mister. Good perspective on why they named these babies 'Land Yachts.' (She's over 30 feet long and weighs 5600 pounds!) She spends most summers serving as the guest house at Girl Camp.

But no reason why she can't be useful in winter, too, while parked right here at home. (Why didn't we think of this earlier?)

Heading out to the trailer barn right now to heat the Big Girl up, open the curtains, and give her a little winter-fort makeover. Perfect way to be Girl Camping, even on a snowy day!

(Will let you know how it turns out.)