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Hi all,
Dave encouraged me to include myself in this forum in spite of the fact that our Barth in not a coach. We are in the beginning stages of renovating a 1964 Barth Airflight.
We really love it already, but we are gutting the entire trailer now in order to make it into a silver palace. It has more systems in it than any airstream of it's size, and amazing use of space. Hopefully, we'll have it ready for a short trip in January in a barely livable state. It has a long way to go.
Her name is "Minnie Mae Barth".
Christina
 
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Welcome, Minnie. Got any pictures?

When we had trailers, we didn't know about Barths, or we would have had one. Or at least lusted after one.

[This message has been edited by bill h (edited November 30, 2004).]
 
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I can't wait to see pics of this!

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Dan & Suzy Z
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You may already know this, but a good forum for vintage trailer restorations is at:

http://www.oldtrailernet.com/
 
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Here are the photos of Minnie Mae before digging into it..

 
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Cool, really cool!
About the wheels. They look familiar. They appear to be alloy and are they 13" with a 4 hole 41/2" bolt pattern? Do they have an open centre that had a spinner hub? Enquiring minds want to know!
Good luck on your project.
Don
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Here are the photos of Minnie Mae before digging into it..

 
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This really is a beauty! Thanks for sharing the pictures, hope we get to see the end result.
 
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Guy in CA. restores spartan trailers, i think his website is vintage-vacations.com
 
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You are right Shadow...here it is;

http://www.vintage-vacations.com/46_manor_frnt_kit.htm

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Thanks for the welcome, and for a link I hadn't found. I'll keep you posted on how the resurection goes. Thanks for the picture posted on my behalf of a Barth just like mine. I don't know how to post pictures on this forum :/
We are having to strip it bare inside to redo all of the interior walls. We'll replace them with birch plywood for a nice warm look, and go from there. It will be a wonderful piece of American art when we're done.
C
 
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