My nephew recently retired from the Army as a doctor. He had a couple of bad experiences in marriage and a bad experience with home ownership. He bought a 24' Airstream and is living in it full time.He says he don't want a wife or a house. He has a job in a major city and loves it just fine. Time will tell.
Howard, USN Ret
2000 Ford Excursion,V10, Limited
2003 Terry 27H. Super Slide
Two comments;
1) Hate to have one in a hail storm like I was in in June in Amarillo. Golf ball size, Had to have the whole front end replaced on my Sunnybrook. Rubber roof was ok. Truck very minor damage.
2) Was working in Anchorage in summer of 1966. Was at the airport tending to business and happened out to the highway. Looked down the road to the south 48 and here came a long long string of Airstreams headed north. All shiny and glistening one after the other. It was a beautiful and awesome site to see!
Good luck, safe towing and happy camping!
02 F250 7.3 Auto CC LB Brakesmart Reese Straightline
98 Sunnybrook 29DBS
The Airstreamers are a breed apart. I rarely see one in a campground by themselves. It seems I almost always see them in large numbers heading to one of their get togethers. They are pretty cool looking when you see a whole string of them like that. No way DW would ever go for that kind of $ though.
Mike
Mike , Elissa, Becca, John, Daisy the Mutt, and Trudy the camp dog
2004 Dodge SLT 2500 4x4 QC 5.7L Hemi 2004 Wilderness 270FQS
They are beautiful when you see them going down the highway all silvery. Some people have a passion for Americana so that sometimes motivates their purchase. The Airstreams are apart of the American image of RVing.
Aaron & Delores
1 DD and 1 DS
1 CD (Shih Tzu)
2003 Toyota Tundra V6
2008 Rockwood 2306
Prodigy,Equalizer,McKesh Mirrors,Transmission Cooler,Champion C40012
Kathleenh wrote: If anyone can tell me why we would be smart to just bite the bullet and buy an Airstream, I'd love to be convinced! The Jayco Feather Sport 199 should do nicely for us but if all goes well, maybe someday we'll upgrade to an Airstream. Maybe an old auntie somewhere will leave us some money. Right.
I'll try to give you some "food for thought." It sounds like in your heart of hearts you really want an Airstream. If so, in the long run will you be happy with a second best? If you can afford one now, do it. You'll have now to "whenever" to enjoy it. We just finished our second consecutive trip to Alaska, putting about 25,000 miles on ours and had absolutely no problems. It's a 2003, bought used, and probably could bring today what I paid for it. Would that make an Airstream expensive?
I could never understand why some people would rather see an antique or classic rot in the back yard than sell it to someone who would give it tlc. Here in Northern Arkansas there are yards full of rotting junk that someone would love to restore.
About twelve years ago a friend of mine who ran a large farm stopped by one of our local junk collectors trying to buy an old coke machine for his break room. The machine was tired but worked. The owner said he wasn't ready to sell it. I drive by that same machine still parked in the same position and it is now a pile of rust, unusable. What drives these people?
Kathleenh wrote: If anyone can tell me why we would be smart to just bite the bullet and buy an Airstream, I'd love to be convinced! The Jayco Feather Sport 199 should do nicely for us but if all goes well, maybe someday we'll upgrade to an Airstream. Maybe an old auntie somewhere will leave us some money. Right.
I'll try to give you some "food for thought." It sounds like in your heart of hearts you really want an Airstream. If so, in the long run will you be happy with a second best? If you can afford one now, do it. You'll have now to "whenever" to enjoy it. We just finished our second consecutive trip to Alaska, putting about 25,000 miles on ours and had absolutely no problems. It's a 2003, bought used, and probably could bring today what I paid for it. Would that make an Airstream expensive?
Aaah, j.frank, you have such a good point there. Our problem is that we have two kids still at home; one in college and the other in private school on her way to college. For what we expect to spend in tuition over the next five to seven years we would buy a fleet of Airstreams. We have to do this on our retirement benefits (husband is 66, I'm 52). I am SO TEMPTED just to bite the bullet and buy it but really should have some rainy-day money in case there's a disaster or something. There usually is.
I found an 84 Airstream that may be for sale at a Cg that my inlaws are seasonal at..I told the owner of the park to let me know if they want to sell it...I keep going back and forth it's a 25 foot small but I can tow it...
97 Sunline 2553 80 Yamaha Exciter 250 93 Sylvan 17' pontoon
99 GMC Burban 1500 87 Ebko Monte Carlo...Old Town Kayak Otter double
13 year old Black Lab Tucker, 3 stay at home cats
FWIW - emotion aside there are a bunch of TT that are as good or better built. Yes I have my flame suit on. Here is why I say that. Any well loved TT will last. Airstreams tend to be well loved. So they last. They seem to command a premium but all the ones I've been in (4 total) are nice but not *that* nice. Solid yes, but no worth the premium to me. Yes I could buy one if I chose to but I chose CrossRoads instead because I felt the quality was as high and they had a plan that fit our need at the time *and* were a ton less money.
2008 Itasca Sunova 35J Class A
1997 TJ Sahara, hard and soft tops and AC
Held together via Roadmaster Falcon 2 tow bar and stopped by US Gear Unified Brake system.
I like airstreams. Heres why, 1. Useable space, like a yacht, every inch counts; 2. Pulls easier than anything out there; 3. Take a look at the Safari SE package, interior is skinned in aluminum, very bright, easiest RV to keep clean, especially linoleum floored models; 4. Something like 65% of all airstreams are still on the road--they last; 5. Find a nice 5 yr. old model in great shape, take care of it like you should and use it for 10 years and you will find it hasn't depreciated much, if any--no other RV can accomplish that; 6. No delamination.
The old Spartan trailers were massively built, maybe better than airstream but they were too heavy and are no more. So, all these trailers as good or better than AS, how many of them are still on the road after 40-50 years?
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