1972 Airstream Overlander DIY Renovation | The Foxes Photography
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- In the summer of 2015, we bought a gutted 1972 Airstream Overlander, gutted it some more, and then built it out into our dream home on wheels. This is a snapshot of the work that went into it.
Renovation completed early June through November 7th of 2015. Still living in it full time and loving everything about it to this day.
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49% terrifying, 51% inspiring. Fantastic job guys.
Thank you for showing the reality (hard work) of a reno. Great job!
What a complete job (you did this the RIGHT WAY!!!)....all with your elbow grease...all with your skills...many you didn't even know you had. Besides having an INCREDIBLE AIRSTREAM....you now know that y'all can tackle anything...many never get to know that! ENJOY!!! I have watched this twice...it's so inspiring!!!
Just bought a 1973 airstream land yacht 500. We are going to break are least with are landlord THAT WE PAY $1300 A MONTH.SAD PART IS ,WIFEY DOES NOT WANNA JOIN MY IDEA WITH AIRSTREAM . I JUST SHOWED HER YOUR VIDEO SHE LOVES IT , SHE SAID THERES ALOT WORK CAN YOU SEE. I REPLIED, IF THEY COULD DO IT WE CAN TO . THERE NOT EVEN CARPENTERS OR AXLE PRO AND LOOK WHAT THEY ACCOMPLISHED! WHAT A TEAM . I SALUTE AND THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR PROJECT.YOU INSPIRED ME TO MOVE FOWARD WITH MY AIRSTREAM EVEN IF MY WIFE WONT HELP ME OR NOT . THANK YOU!
This.reno earned you guys a PhD in airstream reno!! Congrats!! (ALSO.. that back-
ground...noise...was WONDERFULLY unique!!). 😁😃👣.
The funniest part was watching you guys install that interior panel in the back along that window. What a reward to get that in!
Love your reno
Y'all are amazing, creative, inspiring, dedicated, persistent, and it is obvious that you enjoy one another's company. Thank you for sharing the renovation!!!
Beautiful movie.. Y'all did a great job. you should be proud of yourselves!
We are!
Hats off to a fine job. You really covered ALL the details. Now you know every square inch of your rig. Great video!
I'm super impressed you guys didn't kill each other thanks for the laugh.
Excellent job you two!! That is a lot of hard work! It looks beautiful and congratulations!🍾🎉
AWESOME! Thanks for taking the time to record and share with all of us!
Awesome restoration work 😎❤️👍 looks beautiful 🎬🎥🌎🚌🎶😊 thanks for sharing and safe travels
Holy Crap this looks like a TONNNN of work!
Great job. Congrats on building your dream trailer yourselves. Gabi was quite able and she was very useful holding up the wall at the front by putting her foot up on it--Something I dont think a guy could have done -- LOL. Have fun rolling around in your beautiful trailer.
Amazing!! I have been thinking about a project like this. I have a fully equipped shop with 40 years of tools and employees to speed the process up and I am not sure I want to do this much work after watching your posting!! Great job on this. Really looks great.
Great work, really impressed! The video was a great summary. Safe travelling!
Nice job. We have a 66 Overlander. You have inspired me.
You guys rocked this Airstream! So very brave & it looks beautiful!
Great video and editing. What a cracking job on the make-over, such skill.
greetings from Germany and respect for this very good job !!!😎👍🏾
Enjoyed the approach you guys took on the video. Looks nice and usable and you use it. Thanks.
Man, it ended looking so freakin' cool
Wow beautiful job!
Impressive project- turned out great. Congrats!
Looks great! I got some ideas for my 1975 that I am now living in. Cool video
nice job, and super fun video! Livin the dream...
It looks great! Thanks, for sharing.
Best airstream renovation video I’ve seen! Great details on little things you did. Cool peek into your use of the cnc. Superb video editing made it fun to watch too (some nice LOL moments)
You guys are totally cool! Nice work.
Beautiful job! Well done, it looks great.
I am truly impressed with the team work! I own 2 vintage Overlanders (1970 & 1974). They are both complete shell off restorations. The '70 is almost complete, but the '74 is still shell off. Complete new frame and axles. I especially like what you did with the bed. Would love to get some specs on design. Great job
almost brought a tear to my eye
Made the mistake of removing the rear end cap skin by my self a few days ago. Went about as well as you'd imagine ended up in three pieces by the time i got it out the door. Looks like you guys did a really good job thanks for sharing.
I’m glad I watched this! 👍🏻
Just came across your renovation! Nice work guys. Hope to one day achieve something like this for my own. Cheers from Chicago!
Love this so much! All we could do was LOL on putting up the end cap...been there!
AMAZING job!!!!!!
you guys had me a little nervous for you in a few spots here...especially with the axles. I rally love that you did it yourselves. I am currently looking for a pro restoration company for my new baby :)
Safe and wonderful travels to you !!!!!!
If you ever have the time I’d love to have an update on how the interior paint is holding up. Great job so much work.
top video starting my own in april 2018
Gods job!
awesome video guys i really enjoyed it how are your travels going?
You are my heros to have even attempted this. WOW. Any idea on the hours/cost? AMAZING
You have me nervous for a second. I thought you were going to paint the outside.
Awesome
Wow 😮 you guys kicked some major butt! Where in the world did you get your energy and patience from?
Love this video and your work!! We are hoping to tackle a similar complete gut and rebuild of a '71 25 footer ourselves in the spring...any tips for resources you guys used, any books or guides? Also where did you get all your cabinetry cut?!...That was super slick!! You guys did an awesome job, hope you are enjoying her and all your adventures :)
One of the best resources I've used is the User Guide that came with my '76 31 footer. It breaks down a lot of things you need to know to maintain and fix your rig. Even some things I thought would be outdated! Airforums.com is also an amazing resource! People are extremely helpful on there! Good luck!
I second Andy S on the service manual! Pretty sure they didn't start making service manuals until 72 though, so you might be out of luck. Still, the user manual will probably be helpful for knowing all the systems as they were originally installed. And Airforums is the single best resource for any questions, hands down. Good luck!
Oh, and we got our cabinetry cut at a friend's wood shop who let us use his CNC router. It was definitely handy :) But still had to do a lot of additionally cutting/sanding/tweaking during the install. But it was a great starting point for everything.
Looks great! Hey what is that heater you have there when you first open the door? Working on project now that I think that would be perfect. Thanks
Wave 6 catalytic heater. Highly recommend it!
un frikin b levable!!!
Awesome Build! I have a 72' im also looking to restore! Where did you guys buy all of the OEM parts you needed? Axels? can you plz recommend suppliers? Thanks!
Looks good, I'd have died the wood instead of coloring it, but that's a preference
What a nightmare! I don't want to buy an Airstream now. Dream just died!!!!!
This is awesome! So many familiar moments. We're in the final stretch of our 1974 Overlander reno. Watching this is really motivating. It can be done! Check it out at instagram.com/silverliningairstream/
Hey! I really love the oven you chose! We are actually in the middle of renovating our 1987 Airstream Excella and we need to pick out an oven and I can't find a Dometic that I like yet. What brand and model is it? I can't tell from the video.
Great Job what sheet material did you use for the inner skin, working on a 1969 23' safari
We reused the original interior skins.
Do you still have the designs you used to have your cabinetry and furniture cut?? I have this exact model AS and I have zero woodworking experience, so having some plans to go off of would be wonderful.
How much did this cost altogether if you don't mind me asking. Just about to start a similar project with my 76 Argosy. Good job for not being carpenters, it looks awesome.
Adam Ziorio yeah I’m wondering as well. I just got a 1975 airstream sovereign.
Hi guys! Just came home with a 74 Sovereign and after looking at it without rose colored glasses, I thought WTF have I done!? Your video has given me a ton of encouragement already. Thanks for taking the time to put this together.Question: your windows seem to have been spared the dreaded silver peel. Or, did you take them apart and clean the insides?
I have recently started a '75 Sovereign Int, and am at the same point with the "WTF have I done" thing. Mine was heavily damaged by mice and it seems like the project just keeps getting bigger and bigger! The windows in ours does have the silver peel and it looks like there is a lot of work to be done in order to fix that as well. Hopefully I can keep the positivity and motivation to keep grinding through the seemingly endless task of refurbishment! Good luck with yours too!
More reno videos plz
Did you replace the inner walls with the same siding you removed? Or did you get new material?
Currently deciding what to do with ours.
Used the same interior skins! We washed them real good while they were out, and then primed with STIX - which is a VERY important step. Then we painted. You couldn't scratch the paint off if you tried!
Hey guys I love the progress! I'm super curious though, why did you paint the frame under the subflooring? I'm assuming it has something to do with protecting it against rust right??
Yep, we sanded off the rust that was there (not much thankfully) and then painted it with Rustoleum or something, I forget what exactly we used. Just a good step you might as well do if you have the frame exposed.
I think it's called Por-3.
Did yours have aluminum walls on the inside?
Do you share plans / blueprints?
Dig it! Thanks for sharing this video! We used you guys as part of our design inspiration! And here's our finished Airstream Airbnb in Kansas City: www.airbnb.com/rooms/36071550
How much did that project cost?
Awesome job on this project!
My wife and I just gutted our 1979 Excella 500. How long did it you from start to finish? hours per day?
Thanks! Oh man, we did like 3 months of pretty intermittent work doing all the tear down and stuff, with long days here and there. But as soon as we had the subfloor replaced and started building it back up, it was 3 more months of full time work, with 8-12 hour days most times. Not saying all those hours were super productive though, lots of indecision and trial and error haha. Good luck on your reno!
How long did it take you from start to finish? We are thinking about remodeling my parents airstream. I am wondering if it is worth the money to remodel or buy a trailer?
Was that y’all on the roof replacing the ac? If so, was the interior skin off? We did to replace 3 vents and an ac but I was nervous about getting on the roof with the airstream gutted 😬
what is it with the continual sticking out of tongues
I wondered that as well, then they made the sign; they're climbers! Nuff said.
Nice camp site . Hated your music score .
Bathroom and shower????
All that incredibly blow-by-blow warts and all reno detail ... then we get a measly .5 second still shot of the actual finished product. Frustrating. I would love to have seen all the wonderful layout/design detail of the end result of all that effort ... sigh
Great chem-trails at 9:27, doing their part to create global warming.
I've seen so many of these airstream reno videos on youtube and they're all the same. Girl acting cute, boy pretending he knows what he's doing. Big mess, waste of time. NEXT
The dumb faces and dumb music it really works . 🤪
Great job but why the stupid face pulling and tongue poking? Really annoying and immature on what was otherwise a good video.
Are you guys high schoolers?? I don't understand all the "tongue" going on and had to stop watching. Its gross.
Get over yourself ...
That's a great video! Good job!