WILLY'S FACE LIFT - FINALE (Almost)

Ready to travel again. 

Pamela and I had a cruise booked and were to leave town on Saturday, March 7th.  I had been working frantically to get Willy as far along as possible.  Bad weather arrived the week before we were to leave.  On Thursday schools were closing because a horrible storm was to hit that afternoon. We stopped by to see our landlord and give him rent before we left town.  He decided that he wanted his new Lexus to be inside, so we were out. He put us out in the middle of a snow storm that had prompted the governor to declare a state of emergency. We hurried to get tools and materials packed up. We put contractor trash  bags over the two window openings, vents and AC opening. Covered the trailer with a tarp and then put the trailer cover over that. We were hoping that would protect him from the storm.

We drove up the street to a place owned by a man whom we had met during our refurbishing. He was willing to let us put Willy in his garage. He said that if he got really busy he'd move Willy outside during business hours. The storm hit as we were backing Willy into his garage. In fact, the sleet and snow was already so bad that I had to put Moe into 4-wheel drive to get Willy into the garage. But he was safe.  The next morning there was 18" of snow on the ground and all of the roads - including interstates - were closed.   Once the roads were opened we put Moe into 4-wheel drive and headed south.

Upon return from our cruise I put on a second coat of roof sealant, polished the window frames, re-installed the windows, put on the new roof vents and re-mounted the air-conditioner on the roof. As we were locking up this evening we discovered that the door is slightly warped and the lock will not hold. That's probably why the previous owners had installed the dead bolt that I removed and so meticulously covered the holes. Tomorrow we will take him to a locksmith to see what options we have.

I'm still trying to salvage the old fenders. New one will cost us $300, so Willy has no fenders in the pictures.  I'm also going to get some metal window rain guards for all the windows.  They will look classy.  They were common among older trailers.  

 Here are a couple of pictures of Willy and Moe. Pretty good color match, don't you think?  We could have bought the exact paint but it would have cost four times more than we paid and it could only be sprayed on. This may not be perfect, but you get the idea they go together.