Anyone towed a 70"s 31ft Airstream?

desertratt1 wrote:
Wow! This is some great info!! Thanks everyone keep posting this awesome!!

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I have no ownership experience, but my dream RV is a 34 Ft Triple axle with a front lounge and a rear island queeen bed... Mid Bath! ahhh Yeah!!!!

Why I get 20 MPG uphill on 4 inches of snow in Colorado going backwards. Towed one, a 1975 30 ft. Rode and pulled smooth. Didn't like the curved ceiling but well built.

Here is a short video of what it means to own an Airstream by Airstream folks.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=15qB_Z5Dg4o

Wow! This is some great info!! Thanks everyone keep posting this awesome!!

Just made the switch from my much loved motorhome/toad to a 25' Airstream and returned from a 7000mi maiden voyage two days ago. I went up and down mountains and plowed through 40 mph winds (and a little snow). If I had had my motorhome it would have been white knuckle driving, as it was, I didn't even feel the wind.

What space I may have lost in my motorhome basement was well made up for in that I now have a whole pickup bed to fill with "stuff".

So far, no regrets (well, except that I have to work on my backing up skills, but that will come).

By the way I read recently that over 90% of the Airstreams ever produced are still registered or in use.

I think that number is more like 70 percent; however, very impressive since they have been made since the 1930's. How many other manufacturers are still in business making RV's that were also making RV's when Airstream started? Maybe Shasta, but more likely none. Airstream is a quality product, an American icon, and has stood the test of time. No RV says America as well as an Airstream; kind of like Harley-Davidson motorcycles, Boeing airliners, and Hinkley sailboats.

By the way I read recently that over 90% of the Airstreams ever produced are still registered or in use.

I have had two. Shorter ones 16 and 22. They towed straight and true.
Almost maintenance free compared to a class A.

My folks traveled extensively over most of North America in various sized AS for months at a time. Everything from 22 to 35 when they started to get older and park in one place (Ohio)for six months in the summer.

As far as storage goes we now have a 38DP with tons of storage and I can tell you it is packed to the gills with stuff I don't really need but take because I can.

You take what you have room for. We took our 22' AS out west for 12 weeks years ago and did just fine.

We are now in the process of selling our house, taking a few more trips in the DP
and are going to sell it and buy a 31' AS or some other TT with one slide.

Long story short, but friends went from a 15 foot Terry to a 25 foot AS. Parked door to door we helped them move stuff from old to new. After a couple of hours wife yells, "were out of room" so about 25% of the stuff from the old trailer went in the garage. Airstream because of their design have less sheer volume. Smaller overhead cabinets, less overall storage space foot for foot than a box shape trailer.

......and the folks that have actually owned, towed and even lived in an Airstream say otherwise.