Avion truck campers - Hundreds of photos
Without going into too much painful detail, we had a mishap several week-ends ago. While working with sand bag crews on the Mississippi River, the truck and camper fell into the flood waters as a road...
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67, I completely agree that modern windows would be a great upgrade. The jalousies have many shortcomings. If I were to do another Avion, knowing what I know now(yikes!), I would design an awning window that had something of the period look with the efficiency of double panes, screens, and curtains. You undoubtably saw some of the slick Euro-style windows on your road trip.
I choose not to do that with Argo because the shape and style of the existing windows is archetypal and, when I investigated custom windows a couple of years ago, they were over the top cost-wise. Now I think I could construct my own custom windows; the learning curve has leveled out considerably!
I wanted to maintain the essential appearance of the C-11, but I admit to having been lead around by that notion at times...
The door is being painted this week. I'll post a pic of the butt of Argo with door installed.
Cheers!
Dick
I choose not to do that with Argo because the shape and style of the existing windows is archetypal and, when I investigated custom windows a couple of years ago, they were over the top cost-wise. Now I think I could construct my own custom windows; the learning curve has leveled out considerably!
I wanted to maintain the essential appearance of the C-11, but I admit to having been lead around by that notion at times...
The door is being painted this week. I'll post a pic of the butt of Argo with door installed.
Cheers!
Dick
