almost Fridae ..
I have a 1965 Oasis 16foot travel trailer..
'cheapness of build or fittings' has never occurred to me at all.
I'd say it's super well built...can't think of anything on it I consider
weak at all.   Made in Belflower Calif. in the good ole days.
I use it every night I am here ...some 300 nights a year.  Kind of thing
I might never sell, it's so good.

same for my 1972 35 foot Airstream..
that thing uses **metal** by golly !
not plastic.
come to think of it, that would make a great custom license plate number
'not plastic' .
Makes a great guest bedroom and wintertime office.   Just fun to look
at. Lots of cache.

On 8/14/2014 3:21 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
>     I have to say that the older trailers like the one Rocky linked, those
> are often a lot better built than newer ones, and there really isn't
> anything that makes "newer is better" sense when it comes to travel
> trailers...There is, however, 'newer is more Cheezy" for sure...  Trailers
> have appliances, frames, some cabinets and a couple of wheel bearings to
> look after....That stuff doesn't go bad with age if semi looked after...And
> the Hipsters are now 'liking' them, the old ones, they call em "canned
> hams" on the tw*tter and the fec*book...They're "in" right now, just like
> Westies...
>
>    We have a 1970-isg 26' Argosy that we lived in for a few years as we
> built our house...it has been stored.  My S.O. decided she was tired of
> living the whole winter in a camper so she bought a newer Layton 25 footer
> down south, it was not very expensive, used and most important, it was
> already there where we sometimes winter...So it has been staying there full
> time, but we are in it for a couple of months each winter and it is pretty
> poor quality..The wiring is weak, the paneling is cheap, the roof vents rot
> off  every couple of years, the thing is just poor quality...and Layton is
> made by a big reputable company in Elkhart, Ind. along with most other
> contemporary RVs...
>
>     Due to logistics with horse trailers  and tools and the cost of fuel,
> the Argosy is still stored here in the Northwest...and the Layton gets
> dragged about 20 feet out of storage and put  into service each Nov or
> December...and I get to work on broken and breaking things during my
> 'vacation' time....It looks nice and modern, has an awning that is broken,
> has steps that are broken, doors that fall off, cabinets that are extremely
> un-workable, a porch light that won't work, on and on....I'd much rather
> have that Argosy that looks so 'out dated' but it actually works....We
> lived almost full time in that one with no problems like the new modern
> trailer has...And it's 'retro-cool' now.....
>
>     But that would mean I would not have my Vanagon down south, cause it
> won't tow a 26' trailer...and my other van would probably cost me $1000 in
> fuel to tow the Argosy south...and $3-4hundred extra to come back north
> with no tow...
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Rocket J Squirrel <
> camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A bit spendy for our budget. This might be closer to what we're looking
>> for:
>>
>> <http://bend.craigslist.org/rvs/4617975851.html>
>>
>> No, not mine.
>>
>> --
>> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
>> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
>> Bend, Ore.
>>
>> On 08/12/2014 10:28 AM, Alistair Bell wrote:
>>
>>> Nice little camper trailer up for auction here
>>>
>>> http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21917/lot/200/
>>>
>>>
>>> Very much in the Felder industries style, and I bet that rocky squirrel
>>> would drool all over it. Would probably need a re powered vanagon to tow.
>>>
>>> Alistair
>>>
>>>