I always liked these old trailers, but never thought to look up the companies info or history. One night as I was wandering around industrial Costa Mesa I happened upon one. From my best guess, it looks like a 1955-58 caravan model of some sort. I think they were in the middle of a restoration process as the panels look sanded. When restored these can look amazingly brilliant, especially gleaming in the morning sun in the mountains after a camp out.
From Wikipedia- Airstream is a brand of luxury recreational vehicle manufactured in Jackson Center, Ohio, USA. It is currently a division of Thor Industries. The company, which now employs fewer than 400, is the oldest in the industry. Airstream trailers are easily recognized for their distinctive rounded aluminum bodies, which originated in the 1930s from designs created by Hawley Bowlus. Bowlus was the chief designer of Charles Lindbergh’s aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis.
In 1969, upon their return from the Moon, the crew of Apollo 11 were quarantined in the Mobile Quarantine Facility, a modified airtight Airstream trailer, until it could be determined that there was little likelihood of their having brought back “lunar pathogens” with them.
For decades, NASA has used a fleet of Airstream motorhomes to transport astronauts to the launch pad. The space shuttle program has used a modified 1983 Airstream Excella since 1984 dubbed the Astrovan.[2]
When completed to original , they look like this :
by Dave
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