Can you tell me what kind of camper i have?

[jessica]

What kind of camper do i have, what is the year & can you tell me where i can locate the serial #?
We can't find the serial number anywhere. i dont know what model it is because someone took off ALL the emblems they have on them & I don't know the year. I have looked everywhere, inside & out trying to find it. I've looked in hidden places & even on the walls where we tore stuff out to remodel. Can't find it anywhere. looking online to see what i can find. Everywhere I've looked & the people I've talked to, we all think it's a Shasta but which Shasta & what year. I'm thinking a Shasta 16SCS? Idk. Everyone's told me where I can find the serial # but it's not where they say & I mean it's nowhere!!! I didn't have any paperwork with the camper, neither did the dude who I bought it from (he never bought a tag or anything for it, He bought it & never even got to use it) so he gave me the names & numbers of 2 previous owners before him so I'm tracking them down to see what they know. Someone's gotta know something about the camper because someone bought a tag for it & you have to have that info before you can get one. If it's older than a 92 you don't have to have a title (which i'm sure it is) but in order to get a tag you have to know the serial #, the model & the year & have your bill of sale. The tag office said they can't go back no further than 2003 on their computers so they can't track the tag that's on it now to find out that info for me. The tag that's on it now was bought in Nov. 1998 lol. So, hopefully I don't have to go too far back to find out that info. We plan on fixing it up really nice inside & out & using it on the road camping or vacationing or whatever so i'll have to have a tag at some point. Can you help me? I have more pics but dont know how to include them all.

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[offspringin]

I'm not so sure that's a Shasta. Appears to be a 70s?? model something just judging from the window styling and shapes. I don't recall Shasta having a dual axle then. Other things like the porch light, window in the door, no cut out around the wheel well makes me think this is another brand as well. Maybe someone else on here can chime in with more authority. Looks similar to some travelmate models i have seen.

In any case welcome to the forum and i hope someone is able to help determine what you have here.

[cowcharge]

Since you didn't specify where folks told you to look... If you've been told by Shasta folks where to look, I assume you've already looked inside the tongue on the street side, on the bottom part of the beam, facing up, where you can see it if you're standing on the curb side of the tongue looking down (pretty much directly under and slightly aft of your left propane tank, on a raised steel plate welded to the tongue)? As far as I know, all Shastas had their VINs there. Some of them are stamped into the outside face of the curb side of the tongue as well, I believe. But I agree with Offspringin, it has too many differences to be a Shasta, or it's a model I've never seen on here. Dual axles on that small a trailer, and that far apart? Never seen that parallelogram-shape in the black paint, either. I'm curious to know what it is though, it's cute.

[jessica]

well, i've looked all over the internet & the shasta model is the only thing i can find to compare it to. there's some shasta's i've looked up that DO have double axles and are that size but they dont have a raised roof or the front of the camper dips in & then goes down where as mine just goes angled down. i have looked all over the tongue & the only thing on there is just the info about the tongue. i've looked all over the outside of it, in the door frames, in cabinets, light fixtures, ect...if it's not a shasta, i dont know what model it could be. it has a stove, sink, can sleep up to 6 people, a complete shower/toilet/sink all made in one, a fridge, a heater, & air conditioner in the top, a closet, a table with seats & storage is under seats as well as behind the left seat. bunk up top. i think someone added the porch light & put a diff. door on. i can't find any stickers anywhere or stamped places. i've drove myself nuts trying to find out what it is. i'd post more pics of it but not sure how to include them in this message.

[boandsusan]

We bought a camper with just a bill of sale. Our seller had never registered it either. Lucky for us the trailer had 2 registration slips from a previous owner. Alabama dmv informed me that we HAD to have a notorized bill of sale from the last owner to have registered it, along with an old registration slip from the same owner. I looked his name up on the computer (search people) and got a current phone number. He was only about an hour drive from us and he met me at his local bank to have a bill of sale notorized. Hope your as lucky as we were. We found our vin # on the tongue rail. It took a couple of days to find it, as it had been painted over and over. No plate, just rough scratched into inside/bottom of the curbside A rail. Ours is a 72.

[jessica]

we've scraped & scraped on the tongue & can't find one anywhere. some tongues have a indented cut out part on the insides, ours is solid on both sides. no plate & no markings of any kind that i can see of a serial #. the only # i can find is on the top of the tongue where the handle over the ball is. it says US PATENT 363445 & when i look that up all it does it just show me info about where the tongue was made.

[jessica]

we have a bill of sale but that's all we have to go on now. i know the 2 previous owners (not personally) but i been trying to get in touch with either of them all day & i can't get a call back. was going to see if the knew anything about it.

[jessica]

sorry 3163445

[jessica]

www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.350737928331001.80077.100001843898739&type=3&l=22bcfe0a73
here's a link to view all the pics of the camper.

[cowcharge]

That's where mine is. If yours isn't, that's one more indication it probably isn't a Shasta. Although I suppose some tongue work could have been done at some point that ended up with it taken off...

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[boandsusan]

Unless the trailer has been taken off its original metal frame (highly unlikely), the vin is there some place. I have found that all vin #`s seem to be placed so that any official needing to look at them, has easy access to the vin. You won`t have to, lay down, crawl under or step up to be able to see it. We had to use paint remover to find ours. I have another members trailer here right now (getting repaired), she needed the vin# and hubby and I searched for a couple of days. We thought we had been all over the tongue, then one day the light just happened to hit it right and I saw a faint outline of a number 1. It had been right there on top of the rail. Its a 64 trailer.

[jessica]

yea my tongue doesnt have the cut out in it. maybe i can get some paint remover & see if i see anything after that.

[boandsusan]

We don`t scrape or sand when looking for a vin# for fear of scarring the numbers. We use paint stripper.

[jessica]

when we scrapped nothing would come off anyway lol. i dont really have anything worth
scraping it with lol.

[boandsusan]

I`d try standing on the curbside of the tongue and just look for the easiest place to be able to place and see a vin #. I haven`t seen one yet, that would need a person to stand on the roadside or in front of the tongue.

[boandsusan]

I`m sending you a pm (private message). Re Title.

[jessica]

k

[jessica]

well, we got a wire wheel & cleaned off the tongue & still no luck. we did every side of it & there isn't one single number. still have yet to find anything anywhere on the outside or the inside.

[boandsusan]

I have all the paperwork from the 3 previous owners of ours. 2 owners ago, didn`t have any paperwork and so applied to the dmv for a vin number, stating that it was a home-made camper. So, even though we found the original vin# on ours, we still have to go by the vin# issued by the dmv. That might be worth a shot.