I should have capitalized the "c" in Collector. I don't mean trailer people will pay mega bucks for an original airstream I am talking about the American Modern Industrial Design Collector. I bought my 1950's house 9 years ago as a collectable at which the neighbors snickered. I offered to buy that neighbor's "tacky, fifties, molded plywood chair". One such plywood chair, just like the ones I sat in at grade school, just fetched $ 102,000 at auction; and by same designer as my neighbor's chair. In fact my neighbor's chair is nicer but no where near as rare. The early- one- of a kind Airstreams/ Bowluses that have welded space frame construction, high end interiors, hand made fixtures, and an overall attention to detail, without the messy plumbing necessities that compronise "pure" design are worth big bucks to Collectors. In Calfornia I know of $30,000 -$50,000 examples. Also check out the prices for hand made, vintage wood boats, Chris-Craft etc. of the same that era if you think I am way over my head in collector price evaluations. --- Roy Lashway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > Roy Lashway > '78 Argosy,'56 Bubble > WBCCI 1610 VAC > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web site: www.zianet.com/rlashway > > > > > To unsubscribe or to change to a daily Digest, > please go to > http://www.airstream.net/vaclist/listoffice.html > > If replying back to this message, please delete all > the unnecessary original > text from your reply. > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ To unsubscribe or to change to a daily Digest, please go to http://www.airstream.net/vaclist/listoffice.html If replying back to this message, please delete all the unnecessary original text from your reply.
