Hello folks, John Goldstein here. Going to take a few minutes of your time and going to get you
up to speed on the background process it took to bring this teardrop into what you're going to see
next week. Over here we have a vintage teardrop trailer customer brought it in.
We're actually going to cut off the hitch, redo the whole frame. We're going to paint it red,
green and a teal in a bauhaus design. In the back, we're going to take this off, we're going
to put two struts. This is all going to get ripped out. We're going to build a tent that's
going to go around the outside with two little windows. In here we're going to have oak trimmed
and different color inserts. You're going to have a two burner cooktop with a built-in cover.
Over here, you're going to have a sink and a faucet. Over here you're going to have a built-in
12 volt 110 refrigerator. Different cabinetry. You're going to actually have a heater
and the fresh water tank's going to go underneath in the front, and the bed,
new lighting. Again, this whole outside is going to get painted in three different colors,
in the bauhaus style. This is going to come out, we're going to panel the inside.
This whole front overhead is going to have to get rebuilt. It's going to have two cabinets,
one on each side and the center is gonna have a TV storage area up in the front. After we rebuild
all this framing, we're gonna take this, put it underneath, put a box right here for storage.
Upgrade the battery, put on a 7-way plug from Leisure Cords, that will charge the batteries
while they're driving down the road and here we are on our teardrop build.
So first thing we had to do, is we had to start with a good chassis. Because when it came in you
could see this is crooked so it's not going to tow very well. It's going to lean to one side. There's
the axle and the leaf spring, and over here we have a much stronger, a much better built chassis,
new hangers. We're going to install the spare tire under here. We are going to flip the axle,
so a customer can get some more ground clearance. Because on the old box you could tell where the
axle had bottomed out. So we're gonna make it a little higher. To give it more room to travel.
So right here we're putting the box on that's gonna give her storage in the front
and we're trying to test fit everything to make sure that when we mount this and we mount the
battery box we still have room for the propane and everything where it needs to be. It's got
a new A-frame installed right here, giving her safer towing than what she had before. Nice and
even and it's straight and much better steel for a much stronger chassis. Just behind me you can
see the teardrop that was on top of that chassis, over here is that dent I was talking about where
the axle bottomed out. Which is why we're going to flip the axles. Fenders have been removed.
Door has been removed. We're going to clean it, we're going to seal that metal
so that way when we adhere the primer it'll stick to that. Still doing the color samples,
to make sure that we got the customer's colors exactly what she wants. Lights have been removed,
inside's empty, rear hatch is off and all this cabinetry is going to go and we're going
to build something new. So this is where she is right now, stay tuned for when she's done. Last
time you guys saw this teardrop we were rolling around in our paint shop getting it all primered
and over here was out in the front we were building a whole new chassis. So now where we are,
chassis is done, body's primer sitting back on the chassis here's the front compartment battery box
built-in propane a new A-frame actually a whole new chassis. We've went underneath
built a little spot to hold the tire instead of having it up front. We flipped the axles to give
it a little bit more clearance. When she's going down the road because it did bottom out the last
time how it was set up before. We've installed the roof vent. We have final mock-up of the design and
the concept that's going to go on the inside with the three cabinets and a little storage
on the inside. We're going to laminate some formica in a couple different colors. One on
this side one on this side and then the roof is going to be paneled in a cream color. Over here,
we actually have the mock-up of what the inside is going to look at with the three cabinets and
a shelf. All right, so directly behind me, we have a Dometic two burner cooktop with a built-in sink.
This is the mock-up of the three cabinets in the drawers. It's still in the final stages, gonna get
tweaked a little bit, small refrigerator, propane heater. So this customer wanted to be able to
have a bike rack on the back. So we made a tube that you can take this off when you're not needing
it, you're not gonna smack your leg when you're cooking. And then when you're ready to put your
bikes back on, bam! you're in business. So that's where we are right now on this bauhaus design
teardrop trailer. When we're done, it's going to be reds, yellows and blues. Stay tuned to see how
it looks when we're all done. Like, follow and subscribe to see more videos and more projects
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tuned for next week. When we show this project to the customer and get her final approval.