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Posted By: flyte63 on 09/14/22 05:46am

67- your Avion has been an inspiration to many of us here, glad that you are having it done right.
Also good to hear that you are taking care of yourself and are on the mend- scary stuff!

Posting photos seems harder than ever - I’ve found recently that I can post links to my photos stored online elsewhere lately, but hard to get an inline image.

Here’s a test for an image stored in google photos 1965 Avion C-10 at TCT Annual Gathering in 2022

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Posted By: cajunavion on 09/14/22 06:14pm

Howdy!
Everyone alive? Muley Point? No mo’ pics?

Posted By: 67avion on 09/15/22 12:33pm

Cajun, Good Grief! So you sidestepped the epidemic? Stayed distanced in your Avion cruising the bayous? Thats sort of what Rastaman did, though its his half dozen houses that he visits that keep him out of sight.

Posted By: 67avion on 09/16/22 01:27pm

If you were wondering what we were doing, we (including Hula the Wonder dog) traveled Colorado last year, dragging my beloved Suzuki Samurai. If you look at pictures I take with Jane in the photos with the Samurai, she looks happy. Believe me she's not. The solid axles and short wheel base affected her like a bucking bronco.

We ascended into the mountains around Telluride circling the mining trails. The Suzuki was great, but Jane was hanging on for dear life, shaking at every bump and rock.

Then, I decided to make it up a trail at around 11,000 feet. Off we started with Jane on the side where you can see way, way down. The carb just about shut down so we jerked and jammed along the trail.

It was a miracle, but Jane came to love my Samurai.

Rastaman certainly understands ;-)

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Posted By: rastaman33609 on 09/16/22 04:25pm

yeh Mon!....

Posted By: 67avion on 01/03/23 09:17am

Got a call from Chuck Cayo yesterday. He had hauled the old '67 Avion inside before the Christmas blizzard and reported that "Spring had come". The weather had changed dramatically to real warm in Michigan from a Polar vortex. I carried the damage camper up to Michigan last year for repairs.

For those who may not be familiar, the Cayo family ran the original manufacturing facilities in Watervliet, Michigan and in California where my Avion was produced during the Lyndon B Johnson administration. Whew! Thats quite a while ago.

Chuck has had some set backs with is health, but reports now that he's feeling good and ready to get the '67 up and running. Of course, he's the last person left on the earth who can do that. When chuck retires....well, I don't know. In the meantime one of the best built truck campers that America has ever produced will be in good hands.

Onward!

Posted By: rastaman33609 on 01/03/23 03:55pm

That's great news, I would bet you are anxious to get it back again.
I hope it will be good as new when you do

Happy new year to all....maybe this year will be the year it happens

Muley Point....Muley point.

Posted By: garryk6 on 01/04/23 09:07am

Glad to hear that the C-10 is going to get repaired. What damage is it that you weren’t able to repair yourself this time?
Unfortunately my C-10 has nearly a foot of snow on top of it here in Central Washington. After last summers trip to Texas pulling a UHaul trailer down then pulling and empty 8.5x 24’ cargo trailer back I found that the bed cross members had rusted away from the years in Kodiak, AK on the 02 F350. So when my boys came home from the military on leave they helped me out by cutting off the rusty bed and wire wheeled and painted the frame. Replaced the broken brake cables and installed a replacement 2007 rust-free bed. The bed bolts no longer stand above the bed floor. ????.

But now I am building a small bunk-room in the front of the cargo trailer, as we purchased a small fixer in central Texas and are slowly moving things down so that I can retire in two years. Then we hope to home base from the little house in Texas and travel around the country in the C-10 and F350. I’m just limited in power with the 5.4 gas engine and no money for a new truck. Yet when traveling with just the C-10 we get 11-14 mpg. Add any trailer and I’m down to 7-11. And while it will cruise 70 with a trailer on level I’m grabbing gears on the 6 spd at the slightest grade. So the Avion will get a break for the next few trips to Texas and we’ll just camp in the trailer freeing up the bed to haul a four-wheeler or a riding lawnmower etc.
sorry for the rambling. Just catching up from not posting anything for a really long time. Happy New Years to you all! Garry

Garry K
Wife + 4 kids
Retired Military Family.... Alway's on the move....
2002 F350 CCSB 5.4 6spd 4x4 in AK
1966 Avion C-10 Truck Camper

Posted By: D1trout on 01/04/23 10:05am

Happy New Year, fellow Avionistas! We’re backstroking along in the atmospheric river here in Northern California and I’m thinking hard about going to the desert pretty soon to dry things out!

I’ve been driving Argo, the all-aluminum camper, regularly back and forth between home in the Santa Cruz mountains and the fishing house near Mt Shasta. It’s a great ride and makes Annie and the dogs mighty happy to have lots of room. I’m at about 14 MPG on the freeway. A big hit at the gas pump with diesel having been around $6 a gallon…

It’s great to see some life on the forum. I’d be up for a Muley Point rendezvous this year. I’m hoping to get to the Overland Expo event in Oregon this July. Missed it the last two years because of Covid.

67, I’m glad to hear you got into Chuck Cayo’s shop. He was a great resource for me when I was making Argo. Hope your’s comes out good as new!

Posted By: flyte63 on 01/04/23 10:56am

‘67 - glad that your rig is on the best hands, quite amazing that the Cayo’s are still available as a resource!

Our C-10 is in storage for the winter but last fall we finished our second season with the Avion back on the road and have traveled about 7,500 miles and have camped in 7 states. The 3 years of renovation/restoration work have definitely proved to be worth it.

Good to see you all keeping yours going as well. Happy New Year!

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