The interior refit last year was such a success, this year I decided to show the trailer a little love on the exterior. I had bought new marker lights from Vintage trailer Supply, and new name placards for both ends, and it was well past time to fix the cracked refrigerator vent, so let’s do it!

The original side marker lights were looking pretty sad.

Just look at that color difference!

Plus the new lights are LED

There was a bit of a mess left behind on each one, which I had to chip off. I used aluminum parbond and vulkem to seal each light I installed.

Very pretty!

I moved on to the worn old name plates. They had been repainted by the PO before we bought it, but his handiwork has worn off over the last 20 years. I had Dave help me drill out the rivets.

The holes on the new plates did not line up perfectly with the original ones, but were close. I sealed the rivets and unused holes with vulkem and used olympic style rivets.

A friend came over with their rivet shaver and shaved down the new rivets so they look original.

The old refrigerator vent was a very thin plastic. It was cracked and torn.

Looking down the refrigerator vent, I’m glad the wasps have never gotten a serious nest going there!

The new vent cover got a coat of metallic silver to match the rest of the trailer.

And again sealed it with Vulkem and olympic style rivets, and our friend shaved those down at the same time as he did the name plates. There we go, ready for another 20+ years.

I also got a new spare tire cover, and replaced the old spare. I scraped off the old ‘Wally’ sticker above the numbers and added a new old one. It just wouldn’t be right not to have a ‘Wally’ on the trailer somewhere.