vintage terry travel trailer help!!!

Hi I just bought a 1975 24' Terry Travel trailer.
It just happened to come with the original manuals.
If anyone needs any info please contact me and
I can pass on what I have with pics or scans.

Diesel0027 wrote:
Hi I just bought a 1975 24' Terry Travel trailer.
It just happened to come with the original manuals.
If anyone needs any info please contact me and
I can pass on what I have with pics or scans.

You might consider opening a free Dropbox account and uploading the manual, pictures, and anything else you feel appropriate to it. Then you can just supply the link to anyone who would like it and they can then download what they need. That is what I have done for many hitch manuals, appliance manuals etc.
Barney

I just started fixing up a 1969 Terry, 18 feet. I put a very solid roof on, solar and am currently redoing the plumbing. Love this thing!

http://imgur.com/a/HZKGe

gdhillard wrote:
I just started fixing up a 1969 Terry, 18 feet. I put a very solid roof on, solar and am currently redoing the plumbing. Love this thing!

http://imgur.com/a/HZKGe

Metal roof, new vents, and a sweet new paint job. Outstanding!

Do you have any more pictures, the interior, maybe?

Wonder how the OP is getting along with his '75?

Inside pics http://imgur.com/a/bdmRA

Gotta' post one glamour shot of your baby--You've done a great job with her!



BTW, tell us more about that roof, please.

WHen I got the trailer, the roof was sagging, patched with tar and silicon, and kept under a tart for the last two owners. The inside was pretty dry, since the tarp had gone on early, rather than too late. There is a local sheet metal shop in Roanoke, B+M, with a bunch of old guys interested in problem solving, and I took the trailer there, and asked about metal roof. I had priced out a rubber roof at around $1500, but really wanted to make it stronger, as well as water proof. The had the sheet metal there, a single sheet of .040 aluminum, and together we planned out the fold over and rivet on job. I hope that this makes the roof both very strong, in terms of flying off, and very water tight, with a good over lap over the existing sides, as well as a strip of butyl rubber under the seam, squished out by the rivets. The roof is also secured by fan and the vent, as well as the fridge vent and the tank vent, both of which are thick metal covers that screw down through the roof into the wood of the trailer. I think it will last, and stay dry.

The paint job is just Rustoleum, gloss white and light blue, laid on with a brush, after cleaning up the surface with a wire brush on a hand drill. Took a couple of days, and cost about $50. The decal on the back is a copy of the old one I found on eBay for about $20. This is my first trailer, although I have had three motor homes, and a camper van. The whole job is mostly about getting it usable and pretty enough, not really perfect, for as money as I can spare. I think I will have it all done for under $5,000, solar and tankless water heater includedand in good enough shape to use for the next several years with little repair or upkeep.

Thanks for the details. You've done an awesome job on it! BTW, the new Retro trailers use the same color scheme as yours on the exterior (maybe you knew that).

I've got some solar, too. Thinking of getting more wattage as free power is just too good to pass up.

Plumbing pretty much done today. TO finally tore out all the old stuff, years of patching and cobbling together, and ran pex all the way. Only a tiny bit of moisture at this point, at one joint. Next, the furnace, which cuts off the pilot every time the thermostat shuts down the burners.