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Texas Vintage Airstream Rally! Braunig Lake RV Resort I-37S San Antonio, Texas February 4 - 9, 2009 Your host: The Texas Highland Lakes Unit
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We’ll be admiring vintages rigs again at the Texas State Vintage
Airstream Rally, February 4 - 8, 2009, at Braunig Lake RV Resort, just south of San Antonio,Texas. All Airstream owners are invited, vintage or non-vintage; WBCCI membership is not required, but you must have an Airstream..
Come in your vintage or newer Airstream, and find out how much fun we can have! This will be an eventful rally, and the Saturday afternoon Vintage Open House will be open to the public, with statewide publicity. We'll have a detailed day-to-day schedule well before the rally. Look for catered meals, flea market, coffee all day, seminars, restoration demonstrations, dealer displays of new trailers, and Saturday Vintage Open House.
Check the March, 2007, Blue Beret for a review of the 2006 rally, talk to anyone who attended, or search and read the comments in Airstream Forums.
The Texas Highland Lakes, with the assistance of several local units, is again hosting this special rally for owners of vintage and not-yet-vintage Airstreams. We can’t guarantee the weather, but we had great weather last year.
A 1954 Flying Cloud that is in the process of restoration will be on site for illustration of sub-floor replacement, replacing spring suspension axle with Dexter Torflex Axle, frame repair, black and grey water tank installation, electrical wiring replacement and other restoration requirements. Special vintage seminars will also be given on polishing techniques and riveting, including buck riveting.
There will be a dditional seminars of interest to everyone Including safety and trailer weight management. There will also be some sessions especially for ladies.
Vintage models, 25 years or older, will be showcased at a Public Open House with statewide publicity. Judging of Vintage models will be done by judges using the set of guidelines developed by Vintage Airstream Club. Awards will be presented including special awards for People’s Choice and Best Engineered Feature. Both the Open House and Judging are optional.
Besides our ever-engrossing study of vintage airstreams, there will be time for touring San Antonio’s Missions, Mercado and River Walk as well as our own “Swap and Sell” for Airstream parts and your own arts and crafts.
We will have as our special guest, Dale (PeeWee) Schwamborn (see the Summer 2008 Airstream Life for an Interview). PeeWee is Wally Byum”s second cousin, and has had a life long association with Airstream. He will present seminars on the history of Airstream and WBCCI and has first hand stories of early caravans. PeeWee will be staying on-site.
Click here to display a printable registration form. Day by day schedules will be published in early 2009.
For more information, contact our Registrar, Elaine Jackson, at elaine@gaj.com"