Wild Bill (AKA KarnaK) Scott,
And everybody else,
There are a great many trailers that seem to have been sold as the year
after they were made. This might have been a common dealer practice and
sales fudge. However, the package of materials that Wayne Moore is
digitizing and copying for me so we can get copies to the Archives,
shows a fall and spring date each year (I forget the months) when
Airstream sent out information with new model names, fleet updates and
option updates. I seem to remember March and November. The point is
that the November update of say 1955, could be sold as 1956 easily.
Cars come out in the late summer, early fall of the previous year but
just one time a year. Perhaps the mid-fifties was such a boom time for
Airstream that they were selling everything they produced twice a year.
Whatever the reason, the model date is quite often one year earlier than
the date on the registration on trailers I've owned and on trailers I've
looked at to buy, not to mention the accessories that are carried over
to the next year or two after newer styles have been introduced into the
top of the line models. All of this makes it less cut and dried and
more of a challenge, kind of fun actually as we try to pinpoint a
trailer within the parade of changing model styles and certainly the
incredible panoply of names old Wally came up with. Bill seems to
juggle all this information better than most and I, for one, am thankful
for the scope of his knowledge.
Tom Walden
Bill Scott wrote:
>
> Hey Joe Campbell. I agree with Scott Scheuermann, there is NO Park
> model and there never ever was a Park model.
> Further, ......I hate to break your bubble, but I think your Overlander
> is a 1955,not a 1956. According to the Official 1959 report, your
> Overlander,... serial # 07094 was made in Ohio in 1955, it weighs 3150
> lbs dry and sugg retail new price $3995. To further clarify the
> difference between 1955 and 1956 follows:
>
> 1955 Overlander 26 feet Ser# 0-7001 up
> 1956 Overlander 26 feet Ser# 0-7116 up
> 1957 Overlander 26 feet Ser # 0-7200 up
>
> Yours was probably made in late 55, then sold in 56, and registered as a
> 56. But, according to the above report, your Overlander is a 1955
> model.
>
> Do you remember the joke about the produce man and "Having no more
> Bananas?" You know, "We have no Bananas", There are no Bananas. We
> got NO Bananas. " There Ain't NO Bananas". The same is true about
> the Park Model. "There Ain't NO Park Model."
>
> Bill Scott,
> not to be confused with Scott Scheurmann.
>
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