Wyoming couple travel US to find, restore trailers - The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com

10.01.09

Ken Faber and his wife, Petey, are not beyond driving across the continent if it means coming home with new and special purchase: Typically, a beat-out travel trailer found in the back of someone's barn.

But once Faber gets his hands on the diamond in the rough, more often than not, it becomes a gleaming gem. The interior might be stripped bare and rebuilt. Custom cabinetry is built to look original. Authentic parts are used wherever possible to bring a once-ruined relic back to life.

"I like to fix things up," said the 73-year-old insurance agent of Wyoming. "I am addicted. The anticipation is the greatest thing. I love fixing them up and showing them."

His passion is so strong that his restored antique travel trailers have won numerous awards at national shows. The Palace trailer he restored with the help of Jim Larimore, of Grand Rapids, has a prominent place in the Alfred Sloan Museum in Flint, where the trailers originally were made.

Two other trailers, a 1930 Covered Wagon made in Mount Clemens and the world's smallest Airstream called Der Kleine Prinz, or The Little Prince, are likely to go to the RV/MH Heritage Museum and Hall of Fame in Elkhart, Ind.

Source: The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com, MI

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