Vintage Caravan Magazine Issue 38 | Page 29

When I first found it on eBay I didn’t know that I had found a jewel... we found out it was one of the first Winnebagos ever built! We also installed 1969 Cadillac seats inside along with an air-conditioner and electric windows, just to name a few of the things we did. As I said earlier we wanted custom and I built the Chevy as custom as I could with the original paint scheme, and likewise we wanted the trailer kept as authentic as possible but with the custom paint job to match our car. The plates on the car are: 4EVRWES. Whenever this classic combo hits the road Ken says they feel like celebrities with all of the attention they get. “We stop traffic everywhere! People will actually stop us because they want to take pictures and ask us questions. Once when we were coming back from Newport Dunes last year, there were pictures posted to Facebook by people we didn’t even know, that however the information highway works, got back to us when we got home! We love seeing what the trailer does for so many people. Their eyes light up when they tell us their stories about camping trips and adventures they had with their families growing up. When we pulled out from the Pismo Vintage Trailer Rally we were following a couple of other vintage trailers. We had three rigs altogether in our group and were following a 40-foot trailer loaded with show trailers on top, and a couple of other setups, so there were about seven rigs in a convoy. We virtually stopped traffic on Highway 101! People were driving by us slowly honking giving us the thumbs up and taking pictures. I was in the lead and when I looked back traffic was snarled for a mile back, it was hilarious!” vintagetrailermagazine | 27