With energy and enthusiasm
of someone half her age,
Mary Corrington, 74 from
Eugene, Oregon is a veritable
powerhouse of achievements. After
our initial meeting at a Sisters on the Fly
dinner, Mary and I organized to caravan
together to Hot August Nights Vintage
Trailer Rally Trailer Revival in Reno. We
met up again soon after at the Roseburg
Graffiti Weekend in July where her 1959
Shasta Airflyte “Shy Ann” took out the
Vintage Trailer Award. After the show was
over we headed over to River Forks Park
so I could get some nice photos of her
cool duo.
A car show regular with a long history of
successfully restoring and showing cars,
trucks, airplanes and also rebuilding
a teardrop trailer, Mary says her “true
love” is her multi-trophy winning 1949
Chevy pickup. Unfortunately, as a stock
restoration and only six-volt powered,
the pickup was not suitable to pull the
16-foot Shasta with its 12-volt trailer
brakes. Mary now uses her 1986 Caprice
station wagon that she converted into
a woody reminiscent of the National
Lampoon’s Holiday movies and the pair
look absolutely awesome together.
Mary told me that how it was that after
many years camping out of her teardrop,
she wanted something bigger so she
could camp with her beloved cat Nikko.
“I have always preferred the quality and
looks of the older cars and trailers. In my
opinion, the modern ones seem to lack
the individuality and class of the older
models. Also I appreciate real metal and
wood, the modern ones have too much
plastic for my taste. I have always loved
the look of the Shasta with her iconic
wings, so I was looking for one for a few
months when I found this one for sale in
New Mexico for $7,000 and fell in love”.
But in a classic case of “buyer beware”,
Mary found that what she has been sold
as “camp ready” was hiding a whole
world of rot.
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