48a Meteor Sports Boat & Trailer

[motorman]

Stop Dicking about Dick, get a camera!!!!

You have so much to add to the forum and a cheap camera will help my friend!!

[Tinman]

Excuse busting ...

Just a reminder that George, myself and several others here are much older than Dick. That means we are from an even older era, yet somehow manage to keep up with today's standards of communication, photography and technocracy.

Failure to keep up with these issues only compounds as one gets older and eventually, one will be unable to perform what continuously evolves into "basic tasks." One of my father's sisters and a couple of his brother's wives are still living and they can master the use of a digital camera and putting photos on Facebook for their children, grand children and great grandchildren.

Dick, resistance is futile, you must be assimilated into the collective!

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Joe, lovely bit of 'Treking' there, did not have you down as a 'Trekkie'.

Ghosty.

[kwakers]

I may have even promised photos as far back as 7 years ago now Joe, but most of the models I had introduced have now been verified, pictured by others, and are coded in Nick's listings now. Remember Joe, as you exposed a couple of years ago now, I am a bit secretive in everything I do in life, much like a drug dealer, an illegal, or perhaps even a fugitive from the law. I am proud to be so compared, and that observation still brings a smile to my face every day because it is so true....I have no excuse, no need for a camera, just a fun Hobby. My personal phone that I have not even seen for over three months now is a burn phone from Walmart, while our crude Concrete business phones are not registered with me at all. No Facehead, no Twitting, just a shadowy figure out of a Cave in the Adirondack mountains bugging the heck out of Lesney collectors everywhere.....
I and the family will be in Daytona next week for my 'Spring Break' Joe. I may be able to be talked into a trip West to the darkside one evening. Panama City seems loaded with 'Girls Gone Wild' activity much like the Daytona of my youth. A 'Toy Show' of another kind!....LOL
The Wife has demanded I not bring along a girlfriend this year, so I may have some free time with my Sons and theirs'....... kwakers

[Tinman]

These last few years, I seem to desire a traveling "Holiday" about every three months and I'll be leaving home bright and early tomorrow (Sunday) for a two week trek into North Georgia and South Carolina. I am just missing a visit by Greg (Matchbox n Molars) by one day (as he will be here the week of the 29th) and now it looks like I will miss your visit as well. My timing seems to be awful on this trip and I regret that I will miss your visit.

Perhaps you can spend the extra time learning how to use a new digital camera!

[kwakers]

We will meet in the future Joe, not to worry at all. Your getaway sounds Great, we all need them to keep our sanity I guess. That now means that I can keep some of these rare and unique models at home instead of bringing them to you to Post on our Forum (and for me to learn some of your photography details....LOL).
Please have a safe trip Joe. Could it be that you are looking forward to avoiding the Spring Break madness I love so much in Florida during Easter time? My Son Dan just turned drinking age of 21, so I am going to teach he and Richard how to sip Beers at The Boothill Saloon, Froggy's, The Last Resort, and other sordid Biker hangouts of my youth on Daytona Beach trips and marathons. kwakers

[kerbside]

Yes Joe I am one of the older generation, 50 years ago I was coming up for 30 if only I knew then what I know now

Hello Hugh here is your variation 2 on the left.


George T.

[Idris]

Hello Hugh here is your variation 2 on the left.

Having got AIM out yet again, that's not variation 2. It is yet another trailer variation where the triangular infill is shorter. (AIM's type 2 trailer has no infill whatsoever behind the towing eye spade.)
So that gives us six possible trailer types!

[Idris]

Everyone can also look through their beater boxes now for an illusive early boat without the hole in the hull for that stud.

Good point!

[kwakers]

In looking at Harold's AIM Guide Hugh, I believe that Harold only had 2 types of Boat Trailers listed. His pen and ink drawings do not accurately show the infill on the left hand illustration, leading to your confusion as to the arms being without it. The earlier shorter type is the first trailer design, and the second longer trailer is being shown in both a top and a bottom view of it. He has accurately shown that one with only the axle braces on it, and it now seems he completely missed our now known type that George has pictured without the triangular frame braces that came before it. As I had said earlier, before Stannard in 1985, most minor casting variations went either unnoticed or uncataloged. Mike Stannard's work was so monumental as far as small details went, I was not even interested in persuing these variations after he showed them to us. To persue them would have been to double or triple the size of our already substantial collections, which seemed not to interest us after 'finishing' our collections to AIM and NAMC standards.
George has given us a very nice comparison of the 'V' infill being different between these two types with and without frame braces, so now we must see whether the infill was made longer at the time the braces were added, or whether there is long infill without braces or short infill with braces trailers that are not noted in our collections. George has supplied the comparison, now if I could only find my other 5 Trailers and boats I have cataloged.... an embarrassed kwakers