Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:35:38 -0700
From: "Allan Ericson" <lowvolt@domain.elided>
Subject: [ihc] Travelall home from CO
I just got back from Pagosa Springs, CO, an hour or so east of Durango, where
I picked up a 73 travelall from the original owner.
Allan, last night I got back from Tomales, CA after a 16hr 600 mile
excursion. I too have been entrusted with someone's pride and joy(at far
less than market value, in my case a '60 B-110 Travelette :) . Discovered
totally by chance about 18 months ago while picking up my '52 T-all, I left
my # with the owner. I got the call in August and told her I'd get it by
the end of Sept. I took a good battery, after pulling the points to clean
them it fired right up and drove onto the trailer. I spent several hours
today detaching the full-cab roof rack that had been welded to the drip
rails. Unfortunately the design of the rack trapped crud against the lower
edges of the roof, which now has significant perforation on both sides :(.
Still, with Crismon reporting 666 B series T-ettes built total, it's
certainly worth fixing! Now it's a toss up which is the rarest truck I have
: is it this one, or the L series Travelall? In my mind, at least, it's the
Travelette. The T-all used the same basic body shell from '52 through early
'57(L, R and S series), while the early Travelette was mid '57 through
'60(A and B series only) with a total of about 700pcs in both series.