Sunday, December 20, 2009

Airstream Cruisette Diary 6

Detective work.
My goal for our Cruisette is to retain as much of the early 50's atmosphere inside once its all done. So before I rip everything apart I hope to establish and record what is original and what is not. First up: paint. There are currently 4 different colors/finishes in the trailer.
The present powder blue on the inner skin and cabinets dates to an early 80's redecoration done by my mother and sister.
Before the blue, the interior color was a sort of yellowish- cream. Some traces of it are still visible on the wheel wells and inside all of the cabinets:
Inside of the wardrobe cabinet there are sections of the inner skin that are painted in a mint green color. This was a common OEM interior color for Airstreams from the late 40's and early 50's:

Finally there are several places where a brown-dominant Zolotone finish visible. It seems, in most places, to be the lowest layer of paint, and where paint has delaminated from the end caps the Zolotone was next to the bare aluminum of the end caps:

Once the interior is removed I hope to verify which color is original, and use that as an element of the final interior design.

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