Vintage Caravan Magazine Issue 39 | Page 24

red and white checkered flooring, red and white polka dot curtains, bunting and all the right accessories, this diminutive trailer had everyone buzzing. Having never seen anything quite like it, I asked Sue where they had managed to find such a cutie. She told me that they had actually been lucky enough to find it only about ten minutes from where they live. Apparently it was in pretty rough condition when they first got it and so it sat in their yard where it acted as “yard art” and a playhouse for their granddaughters for about a year before they began the process of restoring it. Sue admits that the “vintage trailer bug” first bit them after they attended the 2nd Annual Buellton Trailer Bash as spectators, so it wasn’t long before they began the process of restoring the trailer that Sue had initially just wanted to use for “yard art” in order for it to be used as a functioning camping trailer again. “We had to totally restore the trailer as she was pretty much all rotten”, Sue told me. “We used the old trailer as a template and put her back to her original glory with just a couple of minor modifications to improve her function. She is red and white with a cherry on top... and she was 22 | vintagetrailermagazine