I seem to recognize your email address, now that i see it again, in this context - I looked through my old A/S message archives, but couldn't find the original exchange. I wish I had deeper pockets - I'd be all over this one-of-a-kind experimental Argosy. Incidentally, I recently 'won' an old (July, 1948) issue of 'Trailer Life' on e-bay, and while 'airing it out', have noticed that many, many trailer and accessory manufacturers of that time were selling 'steerable' double-wheel 'mini-axles' which mounted to the tongue-jack... doing something rather similar to the Watson-design on this Argosy. In this same issue is a cute full-page ad for Airstream, featuring a cutaway drawing of the Wee-Wind, showing (among other things) the pipe-frame and flimsy 'I-beam' outriggers. I'll scan it, and post it to the archives. (Fred, I'll send it off to you for copying, after.) Tuna (Granfalloon Master) '48 Trailwind '49 FrankenJeepster '62 Kaiser-Willys 'Forward-Control' 170 WBCCI#8862/VAC Reno, NV ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [A/S] Argosy on Ebay > I am the <<chappy>> who had this Argosy on the list last year. I > made every attempt to answer all questions fully. Unfortunately, at > one point we lost Outlook Express due to a virus. I lost all > questions and addresses. > > I am online now. Any questions you have I'll be glad to answer as > well as I can. I'm not an Airstream or Argosy grand falloon. I only > know the story as told to me by the designer / developer of the > steering system. > > I would like anybody interested in them to know the story & history > of this little known deveopment exercise as it may become more > important to the overall story at some future point. In the > meantime, I continue to hope that this particular trailer will go to > a collector / preserver of both Airstream and Watson family > history. My wish has been and remains that it be preserved in a > dignified manner and will do all I can to disseminate the history of > this particular piece of history as told to me. I will continue to > disseminate any & all information to any interested party in the > future. > > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert C Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oddly enough, I tracked down this same trailer last year, when > someone > > posted a pic on one of the lists. I emailed the seller for info, > and got > > back only a terse reply asking, 'where did you see this?' and no > other > > information. Followup questions remained unanswered. > > > > I think i'll 'watch' this auction, and contact the buyer to see if > they'd > > like to join the A/S list(s)... perhaps they'll be a little > friendlier than > > the chappy who owned it last year... > > > > Tuna > > '48 Trailwind > > '49 FrankenJeepster > > WBCCI#8862/VAC > > Reno, NV > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 6:54 PM > > Subject: [A/S] Argosy on Ebay > > > > > > > Hi Gang, > > > > > > There's a really interesting Argosy trailer for sale on ebay... > check out > > the > > > wheels. > > > > > > http://pages.prodigy.net/jmtcompany/trailer%20stitch.jpg > > > > > > Hunter > > > To unsubscribe from this group, go to http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/AirstreamList/ and unsubscribe. To suspend delivery while traveling, simply change the delivery option to No Mail-Web only. > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > 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.
