18ft Wilderness Yukon Travel Trailer

Well its been 7 months since Ive posted on here. This is mainly do to the fact that I've been working 6-7 days a week, every week for the majority of that time. I do have big news on the nomad camper trailer though, I gave it to a friend! I buddy of mine needed a utility trailer so I gave it to him to turn it into one. The reason behind this decision was that I just haven't had any time to work on it, and I also kind of lost the drive to work on it anymore. It's really tough to have to go over to someone else's house to work on something. I hope to build a trailer one day, but right now its just not really practical.

More good news on the travel trailer front though. I bought one! Just a few days after getting rid of the nomy, I was searching craigslist and a found a trailer that was perfect, at a perfect price. It was a 1988 18ft Wilderness Yukon made by Fleetwood for $2500. The pictures made the inside like it was in perfect condition. So I emailed the seller asking if I could come take a look at it. She emailed back and said that someone was coming the next day to buy it! The next day at work however I got a phone call on my break from the lady that was selling it. She told me that the person that was supposed to come that morning got food poising the night before! Unfortunate for them but great for me, she told me I could come and take a look it the next day.

I drove up to the couples house that had the trailer. The trailer looked great! Just like it did the photos. They were asking $2500 and I offered them $2300 and the accepted. Anyways that's about it, can't wait to get to take it out camping!

Progress on the Nomad Travel Trailer

Well today I began the process of tearing apart my trailer. Only had time to take off the front window but hopefully I'll have the whole front end torn off by the end of the week and I can start repairing the floor this weekend!

Even though its only the beginning, it still feels great to see some progress.

New (Temporary) Home For The Nomy

My friend Billy was kind enough to let me park my trailer over at his house while I work on it. Billy also happens to be a high end luxury kitchen cabinet designer and has every wood working tool you would ever need. So thats a not a bad thing either!

At Billy's house about to be torn apart and put back together! Also love the old Bronco in the back.

Helpin Billy add some angle iron to his 4-wheeler trailer. Can you say "TearDrop"!

Not very good for a pipe welder but I was in a hurry. I'll make sure to take better pride in my work on the next one. 

Nomad Camper Trailer Layout

Here are some Sketchup drawings I just made for the layout I'm thinking about doing in my camper. I want it to be a real simple and open design that makes the interior feel bigger than it really is. I also want the inside to have a more modern design and feel to it. Probly will go with white paint and trim and probly just some neutral accent colors. The outside will look almost just like it did when it was first built, so it will still have that retro feel, but I want the inside to feel more modern and new. If I ever get another vintage camper, I'll make sure it has all the appliances and cabinets inside, and I'll probly try to restore it to its original design and feel both inside and out. This one though since I'm starting from scratch, I'm gonna go for that moder Airstream look on the interior, just a little simpler than the Airstreams though since I'm tryin to keep costs down.

Nomad Travel Trailer Restoration

Upon further google research it seems that my 1967 nomad might just be a 1970 nomad. The only thing I have to go on is the dates the people place with the images. But I've seen a couple different photos of trailers that look just like mine that say 1970. Anyways, here are a couple more photos from tearing out the inside walls.

So basically you can see that I have both side and front walls stripped down to the framing and I also pulled up the plywood the guy I bought if from had put down. Theres definitely a lot of wood that needs to be repaired including all the plywood on the floor and some of the framing. So far though things are looking pretty good. I'm hoping we can leave the side walls up while we replace the floor, roof, front and back. Then replace the sections of damaged framing on the sides as needed. Gonna hopefully take it over to a buddies house soon to continue working on it.