Vintage Caravan Magazine Issue 34 | Page 29

WORDS LISA MORA PHOTOS LISA MORA & DAVID NORTHCRAFT My sister Amy says that she blames me for her vintage trailer obsession. Her first purchase was a 1957 Westerner that she found sitting around the corner from their house in Oakland, Oregon with a “For sale” sign in the window, but it was this 1957 Scotsman Highlander that truly captured her heart. “It was buried under blackberry bushes and had not moved from that location for about forty-five years!” Amy recalls. “I’d had a few vintage trailers before this one, because I love the idea of rescuing something that might otherwise be left to disintegrate in a field somewhere, but Ngaire has a special meaning to us as we found her on the piece of the property we inherited from my husband’s parents”. Amy’s husband’s father sadly passed away a few years later, but Amy says that she feels like the trailer carries a little bit of Papa’s spirit with it. Inside the Scotsman was in a sorry state and was completely rotted out and parts of the outer skin were peeling off. Inside the cupboards Amy found an assortment of old candy wrappers along with rodent-chewed Sears catalogs from the sixties. The stickers on the license plates were from 1965 but Amy was not sure of the year the trailer had been built, so she called the DMV with the plate number and they told her it was a 1957. Amy was also fortunate that the previous owners of the property helped her go through the process of getting a replacement title from the previous owners’ children, as it had been a deceased estate. vintagetrailermagazine | 27