RV Travel recently featured this story from Paul Lacitinola, who, with his wife, Caroline, publishes Vintage Camper Trailers Magazine.
Found inside a barn, this perfectly preserved RV is an amazing 1955 time capsule.
This 1955, 24-foot Boles Aero Ensenada was sitting in the back of a massive barn on a wheat farm in eastern Oregon. This was a real barn find! The current owners’ son discovered it in 2011 as he was putting equipment away in the barn after a day of cutting wheat on a combine. He knew his folks enjoyed their teardrop and Lakewood 12-foot “canned ham,” so he couldn’t wait to text them a photo of this perfectly preserved RV. A few months later, they got up there and made a deal with the owner, whose parents had bought it new. After a month of cleanup, tire and axle replacement, and clearing the barn to get it out, it headed to its new home in California.
This preserved RV was tucked away for 40 years.
The door to the trailer had not been opened since it was last used in 1974. It was full of clothes, items from the last time it had been camped in, and mice. Incredibly, the mice, having lots of wheat to eat, didn’t chew or destroy any parts of the trailer but had gotten into every crevice they could and nested. Their entry was through the open sewer connection and the air duct under the trailer for the diesel furnace.
Click here to see the full article with photos by Paul Lacitinola at RVTravel.com.