Awesome finds at Goodwill

Well I am an avid Goodwill shopper and these are 3 of my latest finds for the 1949 Anderson Coach a vintage mixer, and a vintage can opener, and also a vintage Aluminum Kromex spice rack set now all I have to do is find the canister set that matches!

I get to go to Green Bay this weekend to check out some shops to see what other awesome finds I come up with for my Anderson Coach

Amazing Discovery

Found out something Amazing last night got to talking with a guy on the East coast about photos of an Anderson Coach he found out there and has plans on restoring and he told me where to find the Serial Number of My Anderson turns out it is right on the front ID badge under layers of Paint so I went home pried off the badge and put some paint stripper on it and turns out I have a 1949 Anderson Coach not a 1950 Anderson Coach but as it is a late built 1949 it might have started in 49 and did not get finished till 1950 who knows as there is very little known about Anderson Coaches building practices 

Floor and Walls

Well when I removed all the birch plywood from the walls and the 1/2 inch plywood from the floors I removed all the old fiberglass insulation (itchy itchy work) and repaired the sometimes missing wall studs

The area where the walls meet the floor was rotted completely all the way around the entire Anderson I replaced the rotted boards (that means all of them) with treated 2"x 6" that got bolted down to the frame of the Anderson and then attached to the walls in some of the photos you can see the temporary braces to hold up the roof and the walls while fixing the floor

Anderson Coach was the first company to use in floor heating  that s what the channels in the insulation are in a future post I will explain it more!

I removed 1, 4' x 8' sheet of plywood at a time until I had the whole front of the Andersons floor removed then after fixing the walls to the new floor edges, I cut new 3/4" plywood and screwed it down with 2 1/4" screws this is the front half of the Anderson next post will show you the back half

the doors would have to be the most complicated area the rear door was the worst!! put that is the next post

All in all the Anderson is now better than it was new on the floor and most of the walls next stop is the cellings and the rest of the walls but that has to wait until winter is over

Winter has helped with one thing the design of the interior is almost done and I have a ton of stuff I pick up at yard sales and Goodwill to decorate with!! gotta love a bargin!!



  

Theodore Bargman Parts

Theodore Bargman company made everything for Trailers from lights to locks on most vintage trailers that you find out in the world today and my Anderson Coach has them too here are the locks and lights and even the outside Electrical hook up all of them are Bargman originals must have been a awesome company then and it is still a cool company that is still in busness today they make some of the same products but a lot of it is new here are the Bargman originals still on my Anderson:

Stripping Anderson

This is what I found after pressure washing the rear of the Anderson Coach, loose paint came off and I noticed there was a badge under the back window I popped it off and  cleaned it up look what I found!!

A little Paint remover then a few rounds on the buffing wheel and different polishes

We get his the Anderson Coach Badge

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nose job for the International

Update: getting ready to pull the engine so we took the nose off:

1949 International KB-2 Tow Vehicle

Well I found the tow vehicle of my dreams for the 1950 Anderson Coach A 1949 International KB-2 3/4 Ton pickup truck these photos show it after I painted it flat black with red rims and chrome hub caps! pretty cool huh? It will be getting an overhaul and a bigger engine so I can reach Highway speeds with it right now it only goes about 45 M.P.H. top speed with its original engine but I plan to put a 350 V8 Engine into it!  As a farm truck it never needed to go fast just be able to tow a massive amount and work, work work.  My 1949 was from Wisconsin and it worked at a sheet metal manufacturer  it said so on the door before I painted over it! The truck will be painted again to match the Anderson Coach I plan on painting them both International Harvester Red

I was tearing out all the insides of the Anderson when I came to this back bedroom closet.  When I started slowly removing the panels I came upon a huge surprise!  Under the part right under the door in these photos was a number of Pennies that someone at the Anderson factory put under the wax paper but on top of the lanolium flooring then they put the wood down and screwed it to the floor. The Pennies ranged in years from 1937 to 1950 and two of them are steel Pennies from the World War 2 era when the government needed the copper for bullets and minted Pennies from Steel blanks instead of Copper!  Hope you enjoy the photographs!