Can someone ID this one ?

[ted saxton]

For the last two months as we pass a trailer dealership on 65 highway in Ozark Mo. this fiberglass trailer has been sitting there. It doesn't have a for sale sign but I am assuming it's for sale. Ted said on the front it said Aero-something? The photo isn't very good as I took it from a moving vehicle with a cell phone camera. Maybe someone here can enhance it and ID this one? Or just tell us what it is?

Vera

[Gina D.]

Roger is the expert on the large rounded ones..but

I think it may be an Avion. An airstream sub brand that looks fiberglass, but really is aluminum.

[Karen K.]

Could be an Argosy ?????

Karen

[Byron Kinnaman]

Looks like an Argosy to me.

[Greg A]

Could be quite a find...

[Palmer M]

Looks like an Argosy, which was Airstream's sub-brand.
I can't remember if they were fiberglass or painted Aluminum.
There's a lot fewer of them out there than Airstreams.
Gina, Avion was Fleetwood RV's aluminum competitor for Airstream.

P

[Donna D.]

Looks like an Argosy, which was Airstream's sub-brand.
I can't remember if they were fiberglass or painted Aluminum.
There's a lot fewer of them out there than Airstreams.
Gina, Avion was Fleetwood RV's aluminum competitor for Airstream.

P

Argosy was painted aluminum and HEAVY.

[Tom Trostel]

The Argosy was made by Airstream in Ohio in the 1980's. It costs less to manufacture than a traditional Airstream because the front and rear end caps were stamped steel. The mid-section was aluminum. It was painted to cover the different metals.

Tom Trostel

[Byron Kinnaman]

Looks like an Argosy, which was Airstream's sub-brand.
I can't remember if they were fiberglass or painted Aluminum.
There's a lot fewer of them out there than Airstreams.
Gina, Avion was Fleetwood RV's aluminum competitor for Airstream.

P

The only one I've seen was painted tan.

[Kevin A]

There is one like this in SE Wisconsin with the word AERO.... on it, too. I'll have to look more closely the next time we're near Racine, WI.

[HaroldB]

Not much improvement to the picture.




Boles Aero made aluminum trailers in the 40s,50s & 60s, but I don't know if they ever went to the "Airstream look."

The trailer in the picture certainly does appear to be like the '72 Airstream I restored years ago. If you hadn't said it had "Aero" on it, I would say it was a painted Airstream.

Harold

[Palmer M]

The only one I've seen was painted tan.

That tan color was an Argosy signature. I've never seen one that WASN'T that shade.
P

[Palmer M]

Boles Aero made aluminum trailers in the 40s,50s & 60s, but I don't know if they ever went to the "Airstream look."

This almost has to be a 70's or 80's unit looking at the radius-corner windows.

P

[james kent]

My sister and brother in law had an argosy for years. Shure looked like your picture.

[Joseph Domingos]

I agree with the "Argosy" voters. Before I found my true calling of loving FBRVs I eyeballed Airstreams and their siblings the Argosys, and from what I remember this looks like a rig of that family. They have their pluses, but it is still a heavy trailer with plenty of potential problems too.

[Roger H]

Sorry I joined this late. That's a mid-'70s Argosy 26' tandem axle.

Here's a thread that will answer some of your questions: What's an Argosy

One of the posts in that thread has the weights of the 26' Argosy.


Roger