- Seller: Tom H (Contact)
- Location: Spring Creek, North Carolina
- Mileage: 5,000 Shown
- Chassis #: 1STT9YL22AJ524049
- Title Status: Clean
UPDATE – The seller has reduced their asking price! If you have a classic car, Jeep, or truck you’d consider trading for it, be sure to message the seller with your trade.
There’s iconic and then there’s iconic. I hesitate to use that worn-out word too much if I can help it, but when you’re talking about one of the most recognizable vehicle types on the planet, you can’t help but refer to an Airstream trailer as iconic. This 2010 Airstream 27FB (front bed) Trailer is located in Spring Creek, North Carolina, and the seller is asking $45,000 but is also open to trading for a classic car. It’s listed here as a Barn Finds Exclusive!
As an architecture university student, we learned about the term architype, or archetypal, and it means a typical type of thing or person. Such as a child’s drawing of a house being a single gable building with a chimney on one side of the roof, or a church being a similar shape but with a steeple, or any other numerous things. If you were to ask almost anyone what this trailer is and covered up the AIRSTREAM name, I bet most of them would know it’s an Airstream.
Just imagine a sleek, aerodynamic Airstream trailer being pulled by a Model A or an old truck that’s the opposite of aerodynamic. In 1936, the company’s first aluminum trailer was offered, and they have made everything from full Class A motorhomes to Class C and Class B models, but they’re known mainly for their travel trailers. This company has been around since 1927, over 98 years! They’re now owned by juggernaut Thor Industries, but the “iconic” Airstream trailers are still being made.
The company offered several models of their Flying Cloud line of travel trailers in 2010, in different lengths and floor plans, from 19 feet to 28 feet. This 27FB (designating a front bed floor plan), is also 28 feet in length, and is 8′-6″ wide (8′-1″ inside), with a 6′-5″ interior height (perfect!), a 9′-7″ exterior height including the rooftop air-conditioner, a weight of 5,746 pounds, and a hitch weight of 775 pounds. You can see the clean, stylish interior in the seller’s photos. This 27 FB is a queen-sized bed model, but buyers could also get two twin beds on a 27 FB model.
They say this trailer has traveled around 5,000 miles or so, which is incredibly low miles for a trailer or for any vehicle. It has spent its entire working life in South Texas and has never seen a salted road or snow drift, so there are no corrosion issues underneath, and there are no dings in the aluminum skin. The seller says it has a heavy-duty sway hitch, everything works as it should, and is clean, clean, clean! Including the clean title. If you’ve been looking for a timeless classic Airstream with modern amenities, please check out this 2010 Airstream Flying Cloud 27FB and make the seller an offer. If you have a hot rod, a Ford from the ’20s to the ’40s, an old Chevrolet, or a Corvette from the ’50s to the ’60s, and would like to trade for this Airstream, let us know!
That explains a lot of things about you, Scotty. Architecture student are pretty much in line with engineering IIRC, and everyone knows of the THREE personality types in this world.
Optimists-“the glass is half full!”.
Pessimists-“nah, the glass is half empty..”
Engineers-“the glass is twice as large as it needs to be-I can fix that”..
The Airstream has set the standards with RV’s for years, with construction and customer followup to name just a couple of their attributes.
Nice rig, well taken care of.
A priest, a lawyer and an engineer are sentenced to death by guillotine. The priest lays down, the executioner pulls the rope and nothing happens. The priest exclaims that he is saved by divine intervention and gets up and leaves. The lawyer lays down and the same result occurs. He gets up and says that they can’t try again- double jeopardy- and walks away. The engineer lays down and the same result occurs. Looking up, the engineer says, “I see what your problem is…”.
Oy, $45gs, I’m running,,no, you won’t hear a price kvetch here, if there’s one thing through the ages that is worth anything, it’s always been an Airstream. It was for years, the standard that all other high class trailers seem to follow. I remember camping with the folks as a kid, in our lowly “Shasta”, in the “overflow area”. We weren’t allowed to park with the Airstream crowd, snobs with their fancy member number plastered on the front, or so the old man said. Obviously, we learned early on what money could buy, Money the old man never seemed to have, and if you have a “Shasta” budget, you have no business even looking at an Airstream. They may be streamlined, but make no mistake, nothing less than a 454 or 460 will pull it. They are wonderful units, and this always showed me what Americans were capable of building, the best of the best.
I had a ’71 31′ Airstream. Pulled it all over including mountains/hill country of Texas with my 1/2 ton Ford with a 351 V8.
Brakes on the Airstream worked well. Very smooth pull.
Yes, a diesel or a big block 454 would have been easier, but I never thought, uh oh, I’m not going to make it up this hill.
I love the look of a big Airstream. Visually, I think they pair nicely with a large old station wagon. Airfloats are also nice – either would make wonderful semi-permanent “cabins”. I’ve often wondered, though, how well the skin on these trailers copes with “normal” hail, the peanut-sized stuff?
Given the insane prices people ask, and sometimes get, for Airstreams, $45K isn’t outside the realm of possibilities. But for that kind of money, they could at least have washed it before taking the pictures…
The camper market seemed to have peaked about 4 years ago, and has been cooling off since. Doubt it’s hit bottom yet. Still, an Airstream will always have value. Just have to buy it right – same as anything.
Also, watch out for hailstorms! A dimpled aluminum Twinkie is not realistically undo-able, making it far less appealing, both visually and financially (though it’s still just as fun to camp in, if you’re not bothered by such things).
I lived in California and purchased an almost brand new Volvo 850 wagon on eBay that had been damaged by a hail storm from an insurance company in Texas (for a VERY reasonable price).The roof and hood were dimpled all over (I didn’t care), and one side glass had to be replaced, but the rest of the car was perfect. When fueling, I was often asked what happened. Being California, they likely had never seen a hail damaged car before, I would say that I purchased it without checking with my wife, and she took a ball peen hammer to it as a result after it was delivered (no one seemed to notice that only the sky-facing sheet metal was damaged). People always wanted to know if we were still together…
Hi John, Colorado has “hail damaged” cars here all the time. I’ve seen hail damaged Airstreams and while the “hammered look” is coming back, it looks pretty bad on an Airstream.
My brother had a silver Ford Fusion that I hadn’t seen since it was new. A couple of years later, he pulled up in it and the rook, hood, and trunklid were all dinged up. I figured that he was in a hail storm, but he said that it was from acorns falling from a very tall oak tree hanging over his driveway.
Having lived on a property covered in oak trees, I can say that I hate them with a passion. From the acorns, to the huge falling limbs, to the 5 million ugly brown leaves that fall off of them, there is just nothing good about them.
I have a 1975 Argosy/Airstream, 28′ long that we retromodded in 2006. It weighs 3700 pounds dry. I pull it with a 2000 Chevy Tahoe 5.3 L and it will pull just fine all day.
Nice looking Airstream. The price is fair, but a good checkout would be the smart thing to do before purchasing. Also, the seller needs 2 to 3 times more photos. My question would be why only 5K on a 2010 rig.
Good luck!
My father used to haunt the RV storage areas of mobile home parks and senior housing developments, looking for excellent condition, but unused RVs. The signs were obvious- dirt, cob webs, etc. The story usually was that they couldn’t drive any longer or that the husband had died and the wife just kept it and paid storage fees. He came really close to scoring a polished aluminum Airstream motor home that was almost new due to the husband’s death, but was unsuccessful due to family members intervening at the last minute. That might explain some of the low mileages seen on some used RVs.
Wow..,,selling campers now…did you find it in a barn ? Starting to look like Craig’s list
We have featured Airstreams for a long time now.
I had a very close friend who had completed a very cool customization if one of his cars. He took it to a park close to home in Illinois. After he took his pictures a hail storm moved in. It totaled the car! Thankfully he had the pictures to show the insurance company. Driving in New Mexico we were on a road with a very high center crown. It was fairly deserted and since we were pulling a 5th wheel, it was easier to drive down the center of the road. We were just behind a hail storm and the reason for the road crown was seen/understood by all the hail stones that had rolled to the sides of the road and piled up there. When arriving at the campground in Roswell they apologized that the picnic tables were hot usable. They had plastic tops that had goofball sized holes over the entire surface. And there was a seriously damaged Jeep sitting outside the office. Who’s roof shingles were practically nonexistent! Now that’s an area that has some hail!
So does OK and the Texas Panhandle. Back in ’79 I was driving through with my late wife in our Saab heading for AZ and a huge storm came through and it started to hail, small at first but they kept getting bigger. But as luck would have it when it started to get bad we were near an exit that was out in the middle of nowhere and it had a gas station that was out of business. The cover over the pumps and the building were still there so we pulled in and sat out the biggest and most violent hailstorm I’ve ever seen. Some were well over golf ball size and the sound under the pump roof was deafening, but we were safe and secure underneath. I was so grateful that we happened to be where we were when it started, especially when toward the end a car pulled in coming from the other direction that was beat all to hell and the windshield was even shattered.
I owned a 63 Safari for years at under 23 feet total it was still too much for my F-150. I bought an F-350 which of course towed that old Airstream like it wasn’t even there. This one is too long for me and I prefer the early style with the segmented roof. Having owned many camp trailers I can say from experience airstream is in a build quality class by itself. I am intrigued at tge idea of a side by side comparison with a Silver Streak.
My grandparents owned a 1966 21 ft Winnebago travel trailer, that they bought new. I just looked up on Google that it weighted 5,000 lbs. They towed it fully loaded, 2 adults and 2 teenager through the Black Hills. The car used was a 1964 Chevrolet Impala station wagon with a 327 ci, 4 bbl. Absolutely no problem in the hills. I was one of the teenagers.
I agree that the quality is excellent. I have had many RVs was responsible for the repairs and maintenance on many others. ( trailers, 5th wheels, class A, B, and C motorhomes) Generally speaking most are crap quality. There are general exceptions like Airstream, Holiday Rambler, Lazy Daze, and some of the very high end coaches. That are excellent quality units. I just hope that Thor ( traditionally in the crap quality category) does not have a lot to do with the build quality on Airstream. Time will tell.
I tried to study the interior photos but couldn’t judge the materials.
I have 33′ Airstream from the mid ? 70s. It’s from the era when Beatrice foods owned Airstream. It looks like Airstream from the outside but most inside is cheap inferior materials. Middle bath has a curtain instead of door. Lots of plastic and fiberboad stuff for cabinets, drawers, and closet doors. I think the only real wood in it is the plywood floor. It did come with aluminum lp tanks.
Who owned Airstream since Beatrice?
Yes, we need more pics. Need some info – A comment on the floor/subfloor – condition, soft spots? Tires – how old, axle condition, last serviced? Leaks – are there any signs of water intrusion. AC/Heat/ appliances – all operate. Are the lp tanks serviceable – age, after 12 years must be recertified or replaced.? Water tanks, waste tanks – size? It’s an Airstream, great rep, but not the best by any measure. This is a little larger than what I am looking for but it can be made to work. Aggressive lower Price and more info will help.