Always on the Hunt, Vintage Camper for Nothing!

“Pull over! I think I just saw a free camper!” We woke up that Friday morning, July 8th, thinking we were going to have a normal weekend of camping at Grandma’s. So we started off on our way and about a mile before we get there, Holly shouted that from the back seat. We dropped Pete off at Grandma’s and went back as soon as we could. We couldn’t believe we saw a vintage camper being pulled out to the side of the road with a tractor. We had been wanting a project just like this and there it was at the perfect time for free!

Of course we pulled right over and talked to the guy. Turns out his wife had bought a new one and was sick of waiting for him to reno this one. He held it while we figured out how to get it from the side of the road to the back hill of my Grandma’s property with a flat tire! Not the easiest task, but we ended up finding a tire over an hour a way that we thought would fit… That then led to an hour on the side of the road, cutting the wheel well of the trailer with my dad. It shouldn’t have been cut, but we had to squeeze the extra large tire on and hopefully make it to our destination. It wasn’t the perfect solution, but we accomplished our goal and that’s all that matters. Besides, we don’t really plan on moving the trailer in the near future.

All last summer we worked on stripping the outside of an already gutted trailer, more on that in another post. Then made an impromptu cat door to close it up for the season!

Look out for our next post, coming spring 2023, as we finish the outside of our vintage camper and hopefully add a real door!