Trailer Treasure

 To recreate Gidget’s groovy retro styling, decorate with browns, oranges and vibrant citrus tones.

 Vintage Kitsch Netta Australia Pty. Ltd. Rabbit night light $38 from Teenage Vintage Boy Etsy Store www.etsy.com/au/ shop/TeenageVintageBoy

 Nothing says 1970’s more than a macrame wall owl

These very retro orange cats found a new home in Gidget 

 Lisa Blanco found a great way to repurpose these op shop fi nd mugs

 Retro Villeroy & Boch Luxembourg Acapulco Post $58 from Teenage Vintage Boy Etsy Store www.etsy.com/au/shop/TeenageVintageBoy

Vintage trailer lovers from all over the world love “treasure hunting”. Whether it be op shopping, garage sales or online auction sites, we love salvaging items others have discarded as trash and treasuring them once more. Many a vintage trailer has been lovingly restored from possible ruin from those less appreciative of its charm, and the same is often so of the adornments found in the retro themed interiors of vintage trailers and their owners’ homes. Interior design ideas, homewares, brica-brac, clothing and kitsch, along with trailer trash fi nds, each issue we will feature items found from VTM’s “Treasure Hunters”. Do you have a rescued treasure or retro style item for sale that you’d like to share? Or snapped a sadly rejected trailer out there somewhere? To feature here in Trailer Treasure, contact editor@vintagetrailermagazine.com with the subject line: “Trailer Treasure”.

 For the grooviest curtains like these and fab retro wear go to www.yesterdaypeople.com

 Vintage Gayware Canister set $90 from Teenage Vintage Boy Etsy Store www.etsy.com/au/shop/TeenageVintageBoy

 More of Gidget’s macrame decorations

Gidget’s mod pop fl owers groovy custom key ring from www.zazzle.com 

Retro melanime cup set $35 the lot Phone Cheryl on 0408 166 609 

Bridgewater Vintage Caravan Ex avaganza

WORDS LISA MORA

PHOTOS CAROLYN CAMERON & LISA MORA

Having been previously travelling around in total solitude with my 1968 Viscount “Priscilla”, there were quite a few surprised faces when I turned up at this event! Only a few close friends had known I was even back in the country, so it was great to catch up with so many people I hadn’t seen for a very long time. Little were we to know then that this would be the last event on the calendar for the next few months when Coronavirus restrictions kicked in soon after and cancelled all our plans! Located in a quiet rural area of Victoria, not far from Bendigo, the Bridgewater Caravan Park was an ideal location. The lush green grassy campsites by the river were certainly a sight for sore eyes after having come down from droughtstricken rural Queensland. There were around sixty caravans in attendance, with many of them towed in with cool classic and vintage cars. The organizers

did a great job with the Saturday night festivities at the local art deco styled pub, where about a hundred and fi fty of us took over the entire beer garden area. After a game of trivia and raffl e draws, we enjoyed what was probably the best meal I have ever had at a country pub. Kudos to the chef (and to what I assume would have been a bustling horde of helpers given the extra large crowd). It was just a short walk along the river path back to camp where chit chats and late-night drinkies continued. I was pretty exhausted from all the driving

I’d been doing. I regret now that I didn’t take more photos and videos of the cool caravans that I saw at Bridgewater, but most of us had planned to meet up again at the Vintage Caravan Nationals that were due to be held in South Australia in the fi rst week of May so I’d fi gured I’d do it then. Of course, that event ended up being cancelled along with so many others…Thankfully Carolyn had her good camera and was out on the job getting photos. Thanks Carolyn! And thanks to the organizers for all your hard work putting together such a great event!