I decided to replace the entire roof panel because:
Following removal of all interior partitions, furniture, appliances, etc., the next step was to remove the interior panels. The panels are 0.025 aluminum painted with Zolatone, a paint that was also used in Airstreams of the same era. The panels were installed with pop rivets, so removal involves looking at the panels to see how they overlap and drilling out the rivets.
The end caps are made of fibreglass and are Continue reading “Removal of Interior Panels and Insulation”
This post includes photos of the removal of the interior. Everything had to come out in order to remove the interior skins for alterations and repairs. I don’t intend to use any of the original interior.
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In this post you’ll find the original floorplan of the Avion C10 and some photos showing the interior before demolition.
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Aug 5, 2018 – A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single trip across the yard…
After sitting forlornly in a back corner of our yard for almost 12 years the 1965 Avion truck camper was finally moved closer to the workshop so we could begin the renovations. Loading it up took about an hour
Continue reading “First time loaded on the truck”
| In 1998 we purchased a 1964 Airstream Overlander. The following year, while travelling an Interstate through Ohio, I saw an Avion Truck Camper, and the search began. We purchased this 1965 Avion Truck Camper on Ebay in the fall of 2006. At the time we didn’t have a truck, so I picked up the camper and brought it home from Virginia on a flatbed car-hauler behind our Suburban.
A couple of years after we bought the camper a tree fell on it damaging the roof over the cabover, but fortunately leaving the front curved segments undamaged.
Now we are finally at a point where we can take on this project. The goal is to renovate the camper mostly with modern appliances and materials to make it comfortable and practical to use, not to restore it to original condition.
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