Monday, September 13, 2010

Viva La Naked Camper

Well the camper is almost completely stripped now ... the skin is all gone, the interior is 99% gone and she's laid bare for the world to see.  The wood is so totally rotted it's almost crumbling if we even touch it ... how we got this thing home from the Missouri border is beyond me!  We're leaving the walls intact for now until hubby can figure out how to take them down in 1 piece (or as close as he can get).  His plan is to lay them out one by one and rebuild a new one next to it using the first one as a guideline.  Then we'll do an old fashion "barn raising" and raise the new completed walls up once the floor is done.

The bed is getting a fresh coat of Rustoleum before we even start on the subfloor ... haven't decided if it's going to be black or white though.  There's still time even though they're predicting thundershowers for the next few days.  If she doesn't fall apart by herself with the aid of the rain, it will be a miracle.  I'm just hoping the snow holds off until she's got new skin but I'm not really optimistic.

We might have to change the structure of the roof line a little bit because where it slopes up to its highest point, it's about 2 inches too high to get it into the garage running it on the rims.  We've deflated the tires and just can't manage to clear the garage door.  If we can figure out this problem, then we can rebuild her all winter long without having to worry about the weather. 

So here she is in all her glorified nakedness.  Ain't she a mess?


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