jg09
Member
About a year and a half ago, I bought a travel trailer from a guy just down the road from my place. It was a 1972 Prowler 16 ft. with a clean title and minor roof and floor water damage in the very back. He wanted $500 for it, I talked him down to $300, and pulled it home with a buddy's truck and parked it next to my garage. The only problem was that I had no real use for a trailer and no rig to pull it with. It was one of those deals that was just too good to pass up. So there it sat...
Until recently, that is. I finally came to grips with the fact that I had no time to put toward it and would still need to buy a tow rig after I dumped funding into renovating it. So up on Craigslist it went. I wasn't in a huge hurry to sell it and said in the ad that I was really interested in trades, that was it. I had tons of people ask how much I'd sell it for and they all got the same response: make a cash offer and leave your name and number, I'll call you if I decide to sell it for cash. And I got the same response from all of them: no response whatsoever. Finally, someone e-mailed me and asked if I'd be interested in trading it for a 1978 Chrysler New Yorker. They sent me pictures of the car, I sent pictures of the trailer, and today, the deal was made (excuse the crummy pic).
It needed a new alternator and a negative battery terminal, both of which got replaced today. My buddy and I tinkered on it and got power to the power windows (2 work, 2 have issues that need to be worked out), the power seats randomly started working, and the radio randomly started working (it's a mid 90's 1.5 din factory Chrysler AM/FM/Cassette). It needs a good cleaning inside and out and some more tinkering, but everything is coming along nicely so far. It's nice to have a project car that's separate from my daily driver again. It reminds me of how much I like working on cars when it isn't to get to work the next morning!
Until recently, that is. I finally came to grips with the fact that I had no time to put toward it and would still need to buy a tow rig after I dumped funding into renovating it. So up on Craigslist it went. I wasn't in a huge hurry to sell it and said in the ad that I was really interested in trades, that was it. I had tons of people ask how much I'd sell it for and they all got the same response: make a cash offer and leave your name and number, I'll call you if I decide to sell it for cash. And I got the same response from all of them: no response whatsoever. Finally, someone e-mailed me and asked if I'd be interested in trading it for a 1978 Chrysler New Yorker. They sent me pictures of the car, I sent pictures of the trailer, and today, the deal was made (excuse the crummy pic).
It needed a new alternator and a negative battery terminal, both of which got replaced today. My buddy and I tinkered on it and got power to the power windows (2 work, 2 have issues that need to be worked out), the power seats randomly started working, and the radio randomly started working (it's a mid 90's 1.5 din factory Chrysler AM/FM/Cassette). It needs a good cleaning inside and out and some more tinkering, but everything is coming along nicely so far. It's nice to have a project car that's separate from my daily driver again. It reminds me of how much I like working on cars when it isn't to get to work the next morning!
