Let me tell you about our barn-find!

Let me begin by a bit of history.   My wife, Lori, and I  have enjoyed camping for our entire married life. Our honeymoon was a week of camping, and our latest camp"mobile" was a teardrop trailer, manufactured in Oakridge, OR.  After six or so years of taking that all over, we decided to bump up to a larger trailer.  I was inclined to buy a new Airstream, but my wife was really wanting a vintage trailer.  We both like classic cars, and so at Hot August Nights in Reno in 2010, we found a 12 ft. "canned ham" for sale....cheap.  It only needed heavy lipstick, so we brought it home and did the work.  Then winter came, we headed up to OR for two months.
 Last summer  our son, who helps cut wheat for a farm in eastern OR, saw an old trailer in the back of one of the barns on the ranch.  He had sent us a pix of it, but we couldn't identify what make it was from the photo.  While we were up in OR, we went out to the ranch, went into the barn, and saw it was a Boles Aero.  We had heard the name before, but really didn't know much about them.  It was aluminum sided, it said the model was an Ensenada.  It looked to be over 20 ft. long.  We opened the door and peeked inside. The beautiful birch interior was in perfect condition, no evidence of water damage, or any other damage for that matter.  The body was in excellent shape, no dings or damage.  I WANTED IT.  The owner, actually the son of the original buyer, told us it was bought by his folks in 1955 and he would be glad to get it out of the barn, if we cleared out the stuff (big stuff) that surrounded it in the back corner.  We would be in charge of getting it out, he'd sign over the pink slip.  He had all the original paperwork too.  He and his wife had lived in it briefly while he attended a trade school in 1974, but it had sat, unopened since then.
We went home, got on the internet and learned about Boles Aeros, the model we had, etc. etc.  The more we read, the more excited we became about such a perfect 1955 time capsule.  It turned out to be 24 ft. long, and it would need new tires to get it to roll out.  We figured having 2 trailers in our family would work out just fine.  Stay tuned for part 2 of the story.