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Originally Posted by Hersbird
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.
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I'm not a big fan of this idea. How would you cut it up and have it come out taller and wider? I'd get a generic mid-bath, strip it down to the deck and build back up from there. I had a 1952 Silverstreak Clipper years ago and I replaced 1/2 the deck and floor joists successfully but I needed 3x8' of aluminum siding and what was sold to me was not aircraft grade material and it went all wavy because it wasn't tempered correctly for trailer siding. I lost heart and didn't keep it.
Here's someone else's [similar] Silver Streak:
Both ends and the top are a half-circular. Can you say Iron Man?
Nowadays I live in an off-brand (Mobile Industrial - Santa Fe Springs, CA) 35' R-license park model. It's an aluminum tube with fiberglass end caps. I believe the Argosy has steel end caps.
FWTW here's a Bowlus from the same video:
Search Youtube for the title in the upper left. There were some amazing trailers there.