Beautiful teardown and rebuild of a dilapidated 1975 trailer

Here's a long, long photoset of imakethenews and his girlfriend doing a complete teardown and rebuild of a seriously decayed 1975 Serro Scotty Sportsman teardrop camper trailer. The rebuild is clever, sensitive and ingenious, and the result is a an up-to-date but still nostalgic masterpiece.

1965 Serro Scotty Sportsman (via Digg)

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franko

O.O holy crap — that is INCREDIBLE. did they say how long it took? i must’ve missed that.
RJ

Yo Cory – it’s a ’65 Scotty, not a ’75.
What an awesome rebuild job, too!
TJ Seitenbach

100% impressed at these DIY badasses. I’m inspired and intimidated at the same time.
jaytkay

Bravo! What a great job they did!
cellophane

via -digg-?
- http://devojane.blogspot.com devophill
  
  That’s the thing that stood out to me, too! The guy who did it posted it on reddit, which is where I saw it, the image hosting site was specifically designed for reddit IIRC. Who knew digg was even still a thing?
soylent_plaid

Wow. Aside from the lack of curtains across the bathroom and bedroom entrances, I wouldn’t want to change a thing about this. Beautifully retro-modern.
- http://twitter.com/McGrude Michael Hogsett
  
  In the last few photos the floor didn’t appear finished to me.
Karen Sylte-Munson

I am SO impressed by this. Wonderful of them to share the process, too. May they have great fun camping in it!
nova77

That’s from a thread on reddit…
chicamarie

This guy is a pro restorer, unlike the couple in the article and their excellent DIY effort, but I’ve read articles about FlyteCamp in our local paper and he does amazing work.

http://flytecamp.com/Flyte_Camp_Vintage_Trailer_Restoration/Welcome.html
fnc

That wasn’t a rebuild, that was a build. Save for the skin and sink (anagrams, how fascinating), it looks like everything above the frame went in the trash. Which really makes it all the more impressive.
http://twitter.com/MrAaronSwainEsq Aaron Swain

Ikea should start making caravans.
wizardru

That was…super impressive. WOW.
Greg Scavezze

I want to know:

1. How long it took.
2. Total cost including cost for the old camper.

Very awesome!
http://twitter.com/adamchance Adam Chance

Via Digg? The guys a redditor and it was on there days ago