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The All-American Vintage Trailer Rally in Brooks, Oregon -  hosted by Jacyn & Bob Gallagher - is a highlight of the rally season for us! The annual July 4th weekend rally vibrates with life. Steam-powered vehicles wander Powerland Heritage Park, alongside explosive civil war reenactments and hundreds of vintage trailers. We brought our podcast set up to the rally in 2019 and talked with vintage trailer historian Tim Heintz about his love of trailers. The Audio Field Guide to Vintage Trailers is hosted by Bob Thompson and Carl Jameson. More podcasts with lots of great folks to come this summer...

Photo by Deirdre Thompson  The Pickathon music festival in Happy Valley, Oregon tapped us again to use our vintage trailer for this year's series of band interviews. The Field Guide to Vintage Trailers' corporate headquarters, aka "The Canned Ham," served as both a recording studio and backdrop for video interviews at the annual music fest. The vintage style of our Cardinal fit right into the scene that featured multiple stages tucked into various wooded settings, along with campsites for the many attendees that stay the duration of the multi-day event. Along with the interviews, director Patrick Weishample also shot this beautiful series of Polaroid portraits of artists Karma Rivera,...

We are very excited to announce that not only is The Illustrated Field Guide to Vintage Trailers on schedule to launch in conjunction with Modernism Week 2019, our 1958 Cardinal has also been accepted to be part of the Vintage Trailer Show. So we'll be hitching up the canned ham and trekking to Palm Springs with a pile of books to sell and autograph in person during the show. We hope to be in the company some of the many trailers we've photographed in California for the book over the last few of years. We shared and explained the field guide using a few sample...