ITQ_Airstream

I suppose technically this may be week five or six, but at least there is real progress! The title arrived at our neighbors' home last week, so we were able to meet them at the DMV this morning to finalize the title transfer paperwork and put the Airstream in our names. So, as of February 25, 2019, we are the proud owners of a vintage 1975 Airstream Overlander. We are so grateful to Stacy and Leslie Dover, our sweet neighbors. When they purchased the trailer ten years ago, they were business owners of a wonderful coffee shop here in town, and they hoped to renovate the trailer to use as a coffee truck. But the reality of that mammoth project didn't fit their lives and so the trailer hadn't even been moved in the last decade. They are big supporters of our ministry to love and serve the hurting in disaster response, and after talking about it, decided that we would be the perfect couple to do the renovation and to actually benefit from the Airstream as we serve. What a bless...

Dennis couldn't resist attempting to shine up a bit, and was kinda daunted by the stubborn nature of 40+ years of grime and corrosion. Personally, I'm looking forward to spring days and time to polish the panels, so I hope he'll just continue to make interior plans. We haven't begun the real work, because we are still awaiting the title transfer. Once that has been accomplished, and a few days of weather cooperate, I think we'll make lots of progress fast. He's really having a hard time leaving it alone. He's promised me a video comparing building an airplane to an Airstream, so since he's got an aluminum experimental airplane in the shop right now (a Zenith 701), it should make for an interesting comparison. In the meantime, we just keep watching every video we can on YouTube, and thinking about how we'll use the Airstream most often to facilitate layout options. We have just about talked ourselves out of a blackwater tank, for example, and...

Our update for this week is that we haven't done anything yet. The big news was that when we saw the title to the Airstream we realized it's actually a 1975 Overlander. So, while one year doesn't make much of a difference, there goes our idea of a bicentennial theme. Our neighbors, who generously gifted the 1975 Airstream Overlander to us, met us at the DMV this morning for a title transfer, but it turned out that we had an extra step to accomplish first, so it'll be a few weeks before we can title in our name. In the meantime, we are going to continue to make plans. So, when we got home from the DMV, we decided we needed to use this time to really document the vintage state of the trailer, and take lots of measurements and pictures. I talked Dennis into shooting a brief video so you could see the inside and hear his plans: Hope you enjoy the video! We are going to do a lot of that as we progress. I'm sure at some point you'll even have to see me. As ...