Redo of vintage Mobile Scout logo.

Let's see how many times I can mention vintage Mobile Scout camper trailer in this post to increase it's relevance in search results. Yea Mobile Scout! Woo hoo for vintage campers! Tin can tourists and canned ham enthusiasts rejoice!

But seriously... I found a photo, then later an ad, which had the old vintage Mobile Scout logo -- not the unit produced by Sunnybrook, but the original 1950's and 60's producer of travel trailers from Arlington, TX. It's a simple logo, and in a few minutes I had whipped up a vector version in Illustrator. My end use is to separate out the elements and output them on my vinyl cutter, so I can compile a multi-color vinyl logo on the wheel cover of the tire we mounted (via a custom welded holder) onto the front of the unit.

If you have a vintage Mobile Scout camper and would like to have this for your own personal non-commercial use, just drop me a line, I'll be happy to share it with you.

(For illustration, the original piece I went off of is above, my recreation is below.)

Beatrice has come home!

Her first arrival home!
Originally uploaded by lavachickie

She's home!

Last year, Scot thought we needed a project. So we bought an old vintage camper off of Craigs List, one of the great old "canned ham" shaped campers of the 50's and 60's. It was a 1962 Mobile Scout. (We're pretty sure it's a 62; possibly a 64 but there was a designation inside that said 1962.)

The outside was hideous; the inside was downright hazardous. But somehow, he saw what could be, and with an amazing amount of work, this beauty was born. He almost lost his faith at one point, at which time we had the walls out, the floor stripped, etc. He wondered if he'd ever get done with the demolition and get on with the rebuild.

We had lots of help from his employees (well, is it called "help" if you are paying them?) who happened to have some camper construction experience. I admit aside from placing some orders online with Vintage Trailer Supply, providing morale support and making cushions and curtains that I had very little contribution to this project.

I will get up more photos of before and after, with a little play by play. But for now, I'm just thrilled she's home!