Tuna, Are you going to buy this "49"?? 1949 and 1950 was a transition year, from the old style body, with the oval front and rear windows and the pipe frame. Lots of different model names depending on layout and furnishings. There was a Trail Wind, a Sea Breeze, a Clipper, a Zephyr, a Whirlwind, and many others. The down side on the pipe frame, is that it was not very strong. The one you looked at is broken, the frame should NOT rotate on any axis. Many of the pipe frames would break up near the body in front. There are about 6 forties pipe frame coaches that show up at our International Rally. If you intend to add a toilet and shower, and water and tanks, and a heavy gas/elec refrigerator, you will need to do substantial beefing up of that pipe frame. Bud Cooper did a shell off restoration of his 48 Liner, and built a complete new ladder type frame, with new running gear, and brakes. It is a beautiful job, and handles very well at 70MPH. His wife Bettye insisted upon a new bathroom, kitchen, and other appliances that would modernize the coach. That is what you have to look forward to, ....Tuna, so, don't pay too much. All you are getting really, is just a shell, because the frame, is not much more than a "Fish Skeleton". Good Luck, Bill Scott
opted for the '49 20-footer. actually flew down to iowaboys this morning to look at it in person, and to give it the 'sniff test'... it has the fairly typical 'rear-bath droop', and a good deal of the flooring needs to be replaced... going to 'gut' this one, anyway...but long story short... i'm in love. this is a 'pipe-frame'... with which I have no experience at all - the central 'keel' is a pipe which runs the length of the trailer from hitch to bumper.. is this supposed to rotate around the long axis? It does so, about 22.5 degrees in either direction... and stops, solidly... no 'side-to-side' movement, no up-and-down... is this a 'feature' of this type of frame? or a potentially dangerous flaw? it's S/N 5017.
