Vintage Caravan Magazine Issue 38 | Page 20

to get some windows from somewhere. The way all of this ended up working out, I know without a doubt that God’s hand was in all that happened to help me get the trailer of my dreams. When I was on a Sisters on the Fly campout I met a new “sister” that had been so excited about joining the group that she had mistakenly bought the very first vintage trailer she found. It was a fifty-something Fireball that needed a lot of work done to it. When she took it to have it restored she was told it would cost thousands of dollars to get it road worthy,so she ended up signing the title over to this guy who only wanted the trailer’s base so he could make a flatbed. My sister friend let me know about the fate of her fifties Fireball, so we went and got the trailer, took it home and my husband totally tore it down to the frame. We then kept all the parts and returned the trailer base and frame back to the repair guy. The most wonderful part of this was that it had all the windows we needed for the Oasis! I’m so thankful my husband is handy as some of the windows were a bit smaller and some were larger, but he made them all work. There was quite a bit of rot in the Oasis that needed fixing and we had to replace a lot of the ceiling that had rotted too. Dennis fixed it all and built a new nightstand and put in new 18 | vintagetrailermagazine