MY CHOCOLATE SCOTTY

MY CHOCOLATE SCOTTY BEGINNINGS A LITTLE ABOUT ELLIOTT

A PROJECT 

By Elliott T. Allen, April 26, 2006 4:00 AM PST

A 1972 Trunkback redo

From a really bad trade, comes a really good project. I made a trade with this fellow, and was lead to believe that the unit had two rough spots inside. I wanted a travel trailer to take to my fishing spots so that I could be comfortable. Well upon inspecting the unit I found that indeed it had two rough spots, one was from the front of the vent, to the  forward floor, the other was from the back of the vent, to the rear floor. I don't see how he could have towed this unit on the road without it falling apart. The only thing holding it up was the shower stall, and the outside skin. OH well, I had made the trade, might as well make the most of it. 

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Now this is where the fun really begins. I went up on line (where else), and just Googled, serro scotty. Up pops two, not one, but two, scotty sites. So I looked at both of the sites, and they both had gobbs of information, and they didn't care, you wanted it, take it. So I joined the groups to see the people, and they have turned out to be the nicest people you would want to meet. You can't ask a question that someone doesn't pop up and answer, with a smile. 

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One thing that I have noticed, is that people like to customize their Scotty's. It took me a month or more searching through the photo's to start seeing the actual trailer design, and that's not a bad thing, because as much as I like the aqua & white, I like my Chocolate Scotty. But I though that since I was joining these groups, I was going to have to conform or something, they couldn't care less. The more it's you the more they like it.

I guess that I'm going to have to buy another camera, I own three, can't find but one, and "it" just went on vacation on me. So if I can't fix it (and I'm a certified tech) I'll just have to buy another one. You can't  start a rebuild with out pix's, let alone document it. I think that there is as much or more excitment in prepareing to do it, as there is in doing it.

My side cabinets are in pretty good shape, only thing is, I would like them to be original. And since I am going to finish the top and sides in Light Birch, I guess I am going to have to re-finish the cabinets in Birch, It is a shame cause there isn't anything wrong with them. I guess thats the price for being a perfectionist (did I spell that right).

For those of you that don't know, A  1972 Trunkback   comes with-from door and then to the left-a very small stepdown ( or step up ), a Coleman furnace wall mounted under a three burner stove ( with oven ), with vent hood. Next is a double sink, with two draws under the sink, and two medium cabinets under the draws, with a hand pump mounted on the back of the sink, and three medium cabinets above the sink & stove. A folding counter top extention after that. A smaller compartment  below the extention. Then across the back is a couch/slide-out bed, and above that is a foldup bed, which actually contures to fit the roof. Then turning to the front is a small compartment, on the floor ( same size as the one under the counter top extention ). Next is the three/way refrigerator, with two large cabinets above it, and two smaller cabinets below it. Then a 3/4 length compartment next to the frig., with a 1/4 length compartment below that. Next is the Bathroom; which consists of the whole room as a shower, a sink, and of course a potty. between the wardrobe and the bathroom is a gas light. From the bathroom forward, and then across and back to the door is the dinette/bed, with two compartments above it. Under the left seat is the electric circuit breaker box. Under the rear bed on the left, is the twenty gal. fresh water tank. On the right is the six gal., hot water heater. The unit comes standard with two 20 gal. Propane tanks. And the unit weights in at 2736 lbs, and is 18' 5 1/2" long ( from the tip of the hitch to the rear of the body ), excluding the rear bumper (which is an additional 6 1/2"). Almost sounds like a 19' footer. There are two compartments behind the Propane tanks for battery's. And the unit comes with electric brakes. I've noticed that the rear bumper seems to be standard when they have one, it's a length of 4" pipe, which is just big enough for your sewer hose storage. The attchment bars for the bumper are wheely bars, so that if you drag on something, so it wont hurt the body ( a whole lot anyway ).