Roy,
You aren't wrong, ..............................yet. But give it a couple of
years. You might also keep in mind that anything I have ever gotten exited
over and started buying over a 30 year career in design and buying and selling,
has eventually taken off. I used to buy boxes of Fiesta Ware for five bucks
and give it to friends who had kids as a great, colorful every day ware with a
neat design that didn't matter if it got broke because it was so cheap. I sold
way too many Arts and Crafts pieces of furniture and even Stickley to
professors at Rhode Island School of Design for peanuts because I got it for
nothing and thought it was fantastic design. I started collecting Airstreams
about 7 years ago when I walked into a 1956 thirty foot beauty that literally
blew my mind when I saw the blond curved birch interior and original curtains
and upholstery and refrigerator and stove, etc. etc., You only have to look
at how often other designers use airstreams in ads an movies and books and on
and on. It is listed as an American Icon in many books on American Design in
the Mid Twentieth Century. You may have notice how the price has creeped up so
that they are almost all worth more than they cost new. That trend isn't going
to reverse itself. Some of us may be too close to the phenomenon to see it,
but it is true. I could buy an example of almost any vintage model around for
$1500 in the beginning if I looked hard enough. Now a $1500 model is almost
always one that is in dire need of total rehab. I have NEVER lost money
reselling an Airstream. It will probably only be when there are almost no
undiscovered trailers left in the next 20 years that scarcity will really drive
the price high enough to cause most of us around today to snort our beer out
our noses when we hear the latest selling price of something we had back when!
Tom (oops, did I get on my soapbox yet again?) Walden : o)
RJ & Krista wrote:
> Roy,
> I think in the unnamed persons defense , what he is referring to is if
> the '48 Trailwind was in original complete condition the trailer would
> be worth a lot more than if someone had heavily modified and "updated"
> it. That is a very accurate statement. How much more is open for debate.
>
> Football is on......
>
> Later,
> RJ
>
> Roy Lashway wrote:
> >
> > >Remember when that guy brought a Chippledale highboy
> > >in for an Antique Roadshow TV show appraisal. The
> > >piece was worth $175,000. However, since the guy had
> > >"cleaned it up and refinished it" it was only worth
> > >$15,000. To get a collector price for an Airstream
> > >you need to have it in near original condition. The
> > >'48 Wee Wind on E-bay would have brought more money in
> > >"as-is" original condition.
> > >A collector would not even consider an item so
> > >extensively altered.
> > =============
> > You are over your head on this one. Please let us know of at least one
> > antique trailer buying and selling company who will support your view.
> > These trailers are not antique's that is why the term vintage is used.
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