I have picked up a 60's era montgomery ward camper. I would like to restore it and haul it behind the buick every once in a while. Does anybody know where to find parts for something like this?

you may have already joined and know. but i know yahoo has a lot of vintage camper groups that may help you out

I have not joined any but the vintage apache group and that was for a buddy who got a 58 apache, so I will look into that.
Ken

yea back when we got our old scotty to redo we got a lot of info that way.

I think this could be a fun winter project. I picked up for free out of local classifieds.

have any pics ?? i love seeing thing like that

I will try to take a couple tomorrow its too dark this evening.

lol yea.. thanks look forward to it

I have a lot of work to do its just basically a shell with a fold over top.

You are going to have fun with rebuilding it. I will give you advice. If you see water stains thats only about 10% of the area thats bad. Trust me , thats from my experence. Another thing you must do is to take as many pictures as you can. Believe me you will go back many times to see something. I got my Scotty and the first thing I did after sweeping it out was take pictures. I took picture of every nook and cranny , even underneath. I probably took between 25-50 before I took the first screw out. And I take before and after pictures. I take one each time I take something off to remember what it looked like. Another thing,save all scrap pieces until you have the new pieces made and installed if possible. There was many times I went back to the Aristocrat scrap pile looking at something. I put cabinets and such on it that I actually went back for patterns. I put most of it in the dry. I will do the same with the scotty. And last keep all the pieces,screws,etc in little plastic bags and write what the parts are on the bag.

I created a group for vintage campers,teardrops ,etc for here in Tennessee. Its at http://groups.msn.com/Tennesseevintagecampers/_whatsnew.msnw

There is a teardrop club that makes their own at
http://www.mikenchell.com/forums/

I belong to a few vintage camping groups at
http://groups.msn.com/VintageVacationsanti.../_whatsnew.msnw

and the group

http://groups.msn.com/RepairingYesterdaysT.../_whatsnew.msnw
There is a guy on those two msn sites by the name of Rob. He has one of the nicest Teardrop/cabin cars I have ever seen. He has a bathtub and toilet in one.
Thats what got me the idea of a bathroom in my Scotty. It is my second one restoring it. But I have repaired stuff for years.


http://www.singletonsrv.com/index.htm Has a lot of older stuff. Usually you write what you want and they reply back in a few days.


http://www.rvsurplussalvage.com/ is a really good place to shop and cheap. But be warned call them instead of ordering off the web. Thier shipping over the web is over priced. I confronted them on it and they said that the web page did that for some reason. They said contact them direct and they would give you a better price. So get the price of shipping before you give a credit card number.

Don't forget Ebay. I got a control that was new for my stove for about 10 bucks.

If I can help you some way let me know. I have way too many links to remeber so just ask.

Thanks ever so much! I will be doing more research and posting pics in the next couple of days and will be checking some of the sites you posted.

yea looking forward to seeing pictures of it

I have found one just about like it or rather several. It seems it is an Appleby camper. Now then it is starting to cool off so now I can start with a little restoration work.

is this the little popup ??

Its the little one that looks like a coffin on wheels.