VACList Digest Friday, December 27 2002 Volume 03 : Number 055
When replying to a message, please delete all unnecessary Digest text To unsubscribe or change to an e-mail format, please go to http://airstream.net/vaclist/listoffice.html Topics in Today's Digest: [VACList] Re: VACList Digest V3 #53-Insurance questions Re: [VACList] TV Antenna Crank [VACList] Vintage Airstream travels ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 22:03:01 -0500 From: "Steve Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [VACList] Re: VACList Digest V3 #53-Insurance questions Hey all: I noticed a discussion regarding insuring your vintage airstream trailer. There is a company based in Northern Michigan that insures vintage autos and boats. They started out as an auto insurer only (for storage needs-since most vintage cars spend a great deal of their lives under a barn roof!) Anyway, they decided that there was a market for vintage boats also. I'm wondering they might very well consider insuring a vintage trailer, if someone wanted to do so...when I used them to insure a vintage Porsche, they were very reasonable--about $175.00 per year. Company is called Hagerty Classic Auto Insurance: 1-231-941-0364 Good Luck! Steve C. 69' Caravel in Traverse City, MI ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 10:27:47 -0500 From: "James Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [VACList] TV Antenna Crank Daniel, go to www.mobile-mart.com and click on RV parts and then antennas. They have parts including antenna handles like the ones that were in my ' 71 and ' 73 Airstreams. Maybe they have the one you need. Jim Greene ' 68 Tradewind - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Cathey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 18:56 Subject: [VACList] TV Antenna Crank > Hi everyone and Happy Holidays > > Have completed installing the crank up TV Antenna that John Young so generously provided me on my '73 center bath 31' Sovereign. Using the maintenance manual, I managed to get the unit in and working, but am now trying to find the flat crank with the flat sided 5/16 hole in it for cranking the antennae up and down. Believe these came with an installed placard that had the instructions about which way to turn the crank to raise, lower, and position the antenna. If anyone has one of these or has info on how to obtain one, please email me directly. Vice grips on the ceiling don't look too good!! > > Daniel Cathey > Cottage Grove, OR ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 14:16:56 -0500 From: Terry Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [VACList] Vintage Airstream travels Hi Vintage Airstreamers, For those who enjoy a vicarious traveling trip while snow accumulates on top of their Vintage Airstream, here are a few impressions about five one night stands we experienced the week before Christmas while towing our '77 31' Airstream from Florida to Louisiana for the holidays with our son and family. Cheers and a Ho Ho Ho, Terry - ---------------- 12/18/02 Wednesday - 208 miles Goodbye > COE St. Lucie Lock in Stuart, Florida Hello > SKP Park in Bushnell, Florida When we visit SKP parks, it is often like old-home week. This time, we arrived to find friends whom we traveled with during our 1995 Guadalajara trip. Such treats are always a pleasure. The park is located a mile and a half off I-75 at Exit 309. There are boondocking sites as well as full hookup sites ($10.50). Email pickup has its own dedicated room with local phone numbers posted for most Internet Service Providers. This was a simple stop in a well managed, laid back park. - ------------- 12/19/02 Thursday - 210 miles Goodbye > Bushnell, FL Hello > Elks Lodge in Tallahassee, FL This was our second stop in 2 years. Each visit has been a most pleasant experience with easy camaraderie and support. Comments made to us today: "We're glad to have traveling Elks stay at our campground. We hope you'll tell other Elk members about our little oasis. Do you have any problems we can help you fix? Or, we can help find someone to fix them for you." The Lodge is a few miles off I-10 in downtown Tallahassee and is easy to find. There is a big parking lot. I walked into the campground and found no other RVers there. We had our choice of the six full hookup sites ($11.00). All are located in a small, private wooded area behind the pool area. The Lodge dining room (weekend meals) is adjacent. The GMC/Chevrolet service truck center across the street is a full service shop. - ------------- 12/20/02 Friday - 256 miles Goodbye > Tallahassee Hello > SKP Park in Summerdale, AL This park has developed dramatically since we began visiting when it was just a cow pasture. If there was ever a location where independent thinking and creative construction of home bases for full timers is thriving and encouraged, this is the place. As soon as we drove into the park, a family came over and asked if they could buy our shiny '77 31' Vintage Airstream. This has happened to us several times during the last 15 years. In a rashly impulsive moment, I said, "Sure, if you have $13,000 dollars." They didn't gulp or let out a "hee haw" or blink. Surprise of surprise, the next morning just as we were packing up to leave, they came by to look it over. We rather doubt if anything will come of it, but it was an enjoyable experience and we got to show off our latest in a very long list of completed restoration projects. - ----------------- 12/21/02 Saturday - 196 miles Goodbye > Summerdale Hello > Bayou Signette State Park, New Orleans, LA This state park recognizes the Golden Age Passport which translates into $6.00 a night for water and electric on a large, paved site in a wooded and attractive campground. The park staff are persistent about enforcing the rules. It's a smartly run park and exceptionally well maintained. There are playgrounds, bathrooms, washers and dryers. Each site is large and deep with a fire pit and picnic table. We quickly learned how to get back into the park after dark when the gate is closed and locked with a key (which we weren't given). At the main gate, there is a small sign directing campers to a boat launch area where there will be a gate with a combination (which we were given) to the lock. Finding this unmarked dirt road among many others on this deserted piece of highway late at night was fun, but opening the combination lock was more fun. It is housed in a metal canister type shield designed to thwart bolt cutters. There was barely enough room for my fingers to grasp the lock. The numbers can only be seen with a flash light in spite of my headlights shining on the canister AND only after the lock was maneuvered into the upside down position inside the steel shield. We wondered what caused the park staff to make re-entry so difficult and thought provoking. Even though this isn't the first time we've returned through this gate, the process still gets our full attention, especially at midnight after a night on the town. - ---------------- 12/22/02 Sunday - 25 miles Goodbye > Signette Bayou Hello > New Orleans Naval Support Activity Campground We are staying at this campground for the holidays. Our son (a F-15 fighter pilot) works at the Naval Air Station several miles away. Today, he returned from a TDY in time to arrange for us to stay on a site at the base campground. Although I'm a USN veteran (5 years with USS Laffey DD724 and also with Atlantic Fleet Air Wing), I'm not retired Navy nor are we eligible to stay on base unless our son takes full responsibility for us. Nice twist - - huh? Driving onto the base had the usual concrete barriers which required threading our Van and Airstream through them. Next was obtaining the necessary credentials so we could get back on base after leaving for day trips. The MPs were thorough, respectful and highly efficient. Security was rigorous, as it should be. Had it not been, I would have objected. Each of the campsites has full hookups - with many having a concrete patio and pad. There are family bathrooms, showers and a laundry. There are half a dozen empty campsites. On this, the first day of Winter, we are pleased to be parked in direct, full sunlight all day long. One of our neighbors greeted us with "Airstreams always look sharp, no matter how old they are, plus you guys fly big flags." During our stay here, we are flying our 3' x 5' USA flag and our two USN flags. The blue one is the modern USN flag. The other is a yellow flag with the coiled snake and the words "Don't Tread on Me." Our neighbor hadn't heard the story of the yellow flag. In February 1776, Colonel Christopher Gadsden, a member of the Continental Congress gave the South Carolina Provincial Congress this flag "such as is to be used by the commander-in-chief of the American Navy." On Navy bases, the flags are raised and lowered to the bugler's playing. Reville and taps are also played every day. It feels good to me when these familiar traditions happen each day. I'm reminded of something Wendell Phillips said a long time ago: "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." ------------------------------ End of VACList Digest V3 #55 **************************** When replying to a message, please delete all unnecessary Digest text To unsubscribe or change to an e-mail format, please go to http://airstream.net/vaclist/listoffice.html
