Hemmings Find of the Day – 1982 Airstream
Refurbished 1982 Airstream 24-foot RV for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Airstream only sold 28′ and 31′ that year. The 24′ was a special order and there were possibly 6 manufac...
Refurbished 1982 Airstream 24-foot RV for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Airstream only sold 28′ and 31′ that year. The 24′ was a special order and there were possibly 6 manufac...
Photos courtesy the author. The silhouette of an Airstream trailer has remained mostly unchanged since the 1950s and is thereby recognizable by most. Often described as a silver Twinkie or silver bul...
Well-maintained 1986 Airstream 345 Classic for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: A. Mileage – 47,062 Original miles B. Excellent condition – inside and out (excellent aluminum, no ...
Curtis Wright Model 1 (left) and Airstream Silver Cloud (right). Photos courtesy Dal Smilie. Somehow it seems fitting that, though the earliest-known factory-built Airstream featured entirely wooden ...
What exactly makes the Airstream so popular to this day? To answer that question, the National Trust for Historic Preservation spoke with Airstream restorer Matthew Hoffman about the aluminum-clad ca...
An Airstream Clipper and a Lincoln Zephyr in a 1930s-era photo. Photography from the estate of Helen Byam Schwamborn, courtesy Dale Schwamborn. Recently in writing a profile of Airstream founder Wall...
This 1984 Airstream 310 RV originally came with a Chevy 454 ci big-block V8 and 3L80HD three-speed automatic transmission. The powertrain worked fine but the owner didn’t enjoy how loud it was and th...
Photos courtesy of Airstream, Inc. By far the most iconic travel trailer on American (and international) roads, the Airstream brand has been with us since the company’s first models were built by Wal...
As it turns out, when Ettore Bugatti went to build the Royale, he bodied the prototype with a Packard touring car body. That prototype no longer survives in that configuration, so – as The Old Motor ...
Photo courtesy NASA. In two years, the Historic Vehicle Association has placed or announced that it will place more than a dozen cars and trucks on the National Historic Vehicle Register, which shoul...