My husband and I drive a lot, and I do mean a lot. We have 2 children in Oregon, 1 in CA, a cabin in WA and we like to spend winters in the Newport beach area of CA, so we know all the back roads up and down the whole west coast. Plus, we love to camp. We could pull our teardrop off-road, so off we'd go. Since becoming a canned ham owner a year ago, and then obtaining the Boles in February of this year, we keep our eyes peeled for those forlorn trailers parked in pastures, next to barns or old houses. There are HUNDREDS. I'm sure the owners would be glad to get rid of them for free or just a few pennies. We see real classics, collector's dreams for sure.
I could never figure out why many of these farm families would buy a trailer in the first place. They work on their equipment most of the winter, the kids are in school, and in the summers they put in long days harvesting, so exactly when did they use these things? The answer I think, is, they didn't. Maybe once. Then it got parked and forgotten...just like our Boles. Or, just like this Aero Flight shown here.
The trailer ads in the magazines were too tempting, and after all, if you had a nine to five job in suburbia, and the kids are off for the summer having a trailer was a dream. But, not if you are a farmer. So, I'm not sure how to go about starting a trailer adoption business, but it would be easy to gps the location of all these diamonds in the rough as we drive along, post it and hope that all the restorers and collectors would go out and gather them in. Just think how the trailer rallies would grow! Not to mention how the many companies, like VTS who supply the missing parts, would benefit. A real stimulus package if you ask me!
p.s. Hwy. 395 north of Reno to the OR border is full of them. Look to your right driving north.
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