I agree,
because on the assembly line they may have changed a model and had left over
chassis or domes or what ever and that may be why when they changed over to
duratorque axles in '61 some models had them and some dindn't. I Know from
my grandsparents experience with him on a caravan to Mexico in the fifties
Wally was no penny pincher, treated them like royalty, but as any business
man or should I say woman knows, common sesne tells you to use what you have
in the loft before you start using the new stuff.
Vanessa
The Trailer Lady
'56 Overlander
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----- Original Message -----
From: TOM WALDEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: [VAC] Park model? NOT!
> 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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