"New" Vintage TT

Wow... I sympathize. The more you tear into these, the more rot appears. At times I wondered how the camper didn't fall apart in transport home. Regardless, hard work and swart will eventually get you a really nice rig. I love the look of it.

Color - if stripping continues to go well and look good I may leave silver. Plan was to go with black on bottom and white on top not really this but something similar.



Skin coming off because wall framing rotted, so is part of floor. Plus I really just want to take it completely apart and start back with the frame and go up from there.

Except for the frame (which will be inspected, cleaned, etc) and the skins and windows, everything in the camper will be new.

This will probably take me most of this year.

2012Coleman wrote:
Can I ask a silly question? What is the point of removing all the walls? Do the walls stay intact after removal?

I think his walls were rotten and he wanted to replace them.

Can I ask a silly question? What is the point of removing all the walls? Do the walls stay intact after removal?

Have you thought about the colors yet? Stock, modified, or creative? I wanted to make mine to look like weathered boards but realized it would be too much work.

Most of stripping done, it's almost all silver.

Keep up the good progress. I can't wait to see it when you are down to the frame.

Hi swilly - just wanted to give you a thumbs up and echo westend's hopes for your continuing saga to be reported here.

Some of us are nuts about rebuilds!


Thanks for sharing!

Attaboy, hard at it!

For that unprotected seam and for around windows and doors I used protect-a-wrap, a 6" wide self-sticking window wrap. It is waterproof and offers some protection to the frame in those areas. I also used small cut pieces under the marker lights, just made a small hole to lead the wires.

You should end up with a nice paint job if you're stripping all the siding. I just had a couple areas of bare metal but I primed all of the siding. I used Sherwin-Williams DTM Industrial Primer. It is a real good primer for aluminum. I chose to use conventional siding paint as I have a lot of experience with it and it is very durable. Of course, if you want something that ends up like a show car, a guy can use auto body paint but I couldn't justify the cost. I applied all of the body paint with a Graco airless sprayer and a fairly small tip. I'm real happy with the paint and get a lot of compliments.

Keep the pictures and commentary coming, we all like to see how it's done.

Oh, and unfortunately (but also good) my cheap Ryobi 12v cordless is working so well I can't yet justify the cordless impact driver, but there's still time.