{"id":318,"date":"2006-08-12T21:41:08","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T01:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=318"},"modified":"2006-08-12T21:41:08","modified_gmt":"2006-08-13T01:41:08","slug":"rocky-mountain-vintage-rally-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Mountain Vintage Rally, Day Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terrific rally day today! This morning Herb Spies did his famous Airstream polishing demonstration, on a pretty Colorado morning in front of an audience of about thirty people. <\/p>\n

\"Creede<\/p>\n

Herb gave us the theory and technique of polishing, complete with demonstrations of polishing using a low-cost Harbor Freight grinder and an expensive Cyclo polisher. Herb prefers Nuvite polishes, by the way, but he acknowledged that you can polish with a wide variety of products.<\/p>\n

\"Creede<\/p>\n

Later in the morning we had the Swap Meet, which was fun. I sold most of my remaining Airstream Life shirts, and bought a very cool 1960s polished aluminum Thermos drink cooler for our 1968 Caravel back at home. The seller was kind enough to arrange shipping back to Vermont for me, so I won’t have to find room in the Airstream for it.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon Emma and Eleanor headed off to collect rocks in the mining area north of downtown Creede. Mike Bertz, who we last saw in Tucson<\/a>, is here at the rally and he lent Eleanor a rockhammer and chisel. They came back with plastic bag full of colorful stones. I think a few of them will polish up nicely. While they were gone, Molly Butterworth and I reviewed the layout for her article on “Streamlining”, which will appear in the Fall 2006 issue of Airstream Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Creede<\/p>\n

This evening the dinner was western themed so we all showed up in whatever we had. Great catering, including a HUGE selection of homemade pies. I swiped a spare piece of cherry for later … there was plenty.<\/p>\n

\"Creede<\/p>\n

After dinner, Fred Coldwell put on another of his fine presentations on vintage Airstreams. This one was 1964-1968 Airstreams, a subject that interests me in particular because our vintage unit is a 1968 Caravel. At 9 pm he finished up and the campfire was lit outside, but we decided to call it an evening. Tomorrow will be a busy day — it’s Open House day. I’ve got to photograph about a dozen trailers and their owners, while we try to hold Open House at our trailer at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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