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Old 12-06-2014, 02:08 PM   #20 (permalink)
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cutting up

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Originally Posted by Hersbird View Post
That was the idea I was thinking with cutting up an Airstream, just overall a little taller, wider, with the front part being stock Airstream and then boattail the back like on that Papoose. It would need to be a mid-bath airstream and then put the bed into the V like a V-berth on a boat.
In a perfect world we'd have drag data for both the Papoose and Airstream,and we could predict with certainty,the outcome of such a modification.
The Airstreams are so valuable that you'd want to have a high confidence of the outcome before you took an air nibbler to that beautiful sheet aluminum.
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If you had a plaster cast of the Airstream forebody,you could layup a composite nose and then fabricate the new aft-body from there.
Sell the Airstream intact to finance the materials for the rest of the project materials.
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Are there wrecking lots with damaged Airstream and Argossy trailers?
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