The Beatrice Years 1967 to 1980
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The Beatrice Years 1967 to 1980 |
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Beatrice Companies bought Airstream in 1967. During it's ownership of Airstream major design changes were made, Argosies and the first motor homes were manufactured, and Airstream branched out to postal vans, people movers, and hearses.
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1968 Overlander 26 ft This belonged to a neighbor of the Leippers. At age 90 the owner realized he wasn't going to tow it any longer and sold it. |
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1968 Sovereign This one was advertised for sale at one time. Needs a lot of work inside andout |
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1970 Trade Wind 25ft Larry and Oonagh Cameron. The Cameron's have done a lot of rebuilding and refurbishing on this Airstream |
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1971 Trade Wind 25ft Michael and Tina Lambert (WBCCI # 1640) The Lambert's have done some great work on this Airstream. It is decked out in a 50's motif. |
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1971 Globetrotter 21ft Rich and Judy Jaggard's (WBCCI # 3306) primary trailer |
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1971 Trade Wind 25ft Roman and Melissa's second Airstream. They recently sold it. |
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1973 Argosy 26 ft Bob and Sarah Stover have owned this trailer since the mid 1970's |
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1973 Overlander 26 ft.. Michael and Shelley Fallon Okimoto Some remodeling had been done on this Airstream before the Okimoto's bought it. They have now added some of their own touches. |
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1974 Trade Wind -|- also see this photo gallery Roman Kreminski and Melissa Wong. This Airstream has some very nice upgrading. They sold this one and bought the 1971. |
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1975 Trade Wind -|- also see this photo gallery – Gene and Carmen Baleme (WBCCI #15229) purchased this Airsream from Roman and Melissa. It came with a name – Pepsi- The Baleme's plan to keep the name. |
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1975 Argosy 28ft Scott and Icyl Mulligan have had this trailer since it was brand new. |
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1975 Sovereign 31 ft Dave Gmur (WBCCI # 5936) purchased this Airstream in Spring 2005. It has a rather badly abused exterior but basically sound structure and interior in reasonable shape. Check out the restoration work Dave is doing on this Airstream |
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1975 Ambassador 29ft Bryan Leipper, Diane Leipper (WBCCI #772) After numerous discussions we decided any remodeling would be to make it fit more closely to our travel and use needs rather than keep it vintage. Check out the kitchen remodel and the couch remodel |
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1976 Sovereign 31ft B Martin and John Yokela. This Airstream is in the process of a full remodel. These are the before pictures |
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1976 Globetrotter 21ft Janet Leipper Smith (WBCCI # 9814) |
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1977 Caravanner – 25 ft Mike and Cindy Gower. This is their first Airstream and they are. one step at a time refurbishing and upgradeing it. |
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1977 Overlander 27ft Tim and Kimber Moore Kendziorski. (WBCCI #17330) This one had been sitting for about 13 yrs. Tim and Kimber have done a great job restoring and repairing it. Now they are enjoying the results. |
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1978 Sovereign International 31 ft Anita Leipper (WBCCI #5502 ) These pictures show the Airstream before clean-up and refurbishing. |
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