My boyfriend and I have been looking at and researching Airstreams for a little over a year now and finally bought one in October. We found a 1968 Overlander that was partially gutted and brought her home October 1st, 2014.
The front and back glass was gone, one curved side glass also. The interior was partially gutted as well.
Once we started doing the tear out we found the rear bath had leaked and the frame was pretty well shot underneath. We ended up jacking the shell up and taking the shell off. Very glad we decided to attempt this and it wasn't that hard to do.
Once the shell was off we stripped the frame (it had spray foam liberally applied), then took it for sand blasting.
Since the frame was pretty well rusted through towards the rear we ended up welding and fixing the outriggers that essentially rotted off. Still have a few more spots to weld and then it will be coated one more time with POR-15
1 Oct 2014, finally got her home
5 Oct 2014, interior as it looked when we bought it
rear bath
26 Oct 2014, inner skins pulled and insulation gutted...man, that was some stinking stuff, looks like a rodent ant farm behind the panel at one point
29 Oct 2014, shell off
rusted frame...
8 Nov 2014, frame welded & partially painted. Waiting on a couple more welds tomorrow and then we'll apply the final coat of POR-15
So far its going good, we are waiting for the rest of the marine plywood to come in then we are going to build some gantrys to lower the shell back on, we think the gantry system will make it much easier than trying to line things up via the jacks.
I'll try to update as much as possible as the project continues!
The front and back glass was gone, one curved side glass also. The interior was partially gutted as well.
Once we started doing the tear out we found the rear bath had leaked and the frame was pretty well shot underneath. We ended up jacking the shell up and taking the shell off. Very glad we decided to attempt this and it wasn't that hard to do.
Once the shell was off we stripped the frame (it had spray foam liberally applied), then took it for sand blasting.
Since the frame was pretty well rusted through towards the rear we ended up welding and fixing the outriggers that essentially rotted off. Still have a few more spots to weld and then it will be coated one more time with POR-15
1 Oct 2014, finally got her home
5 Oct 2014, interior as it looked when we bought it
rear bath
26 Oct 2014, inner skins pulled and insulation gutted...man, that was some stinking stuff, looks like a rodent ant farm behind the panel at one point
29 Oct 2014, shell off
rusted frame...
8 Nov 2014, frame welded & partially painted. Waiting on a couple more welds tomorrow and then we'll apply the final coat of POR-15
So far its going good, we are waiting for the rest of the marine plywood to come in then we are going to build some gantrys to lower the shell back on, we think the gantry system will make it much easier than trying to line things up via the jacks.
I'll try to update as much as possible as the project continues!
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