Stuff I don't need

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I have a few things from my 1957 Overlander that I do not longer need but maybe you can use them?
These include:
1) a complete and intact maple gaucho (the wood is in decent shape and could be refinished)
2) An overhead cabinet in also decent shape. It is not original to the 1957 but was added later on and replaced one of the upper bank beds in my Overlander
3) some (few) parts of the original TV antenna (inside crank mechanism and outside holding brackets)
4) I believe original freshwater pressurizing pump (I doubt it works but haven't tried)

I include a few pics below. I do not want money (what goes around comes around, right?). The caveat for the larger items is that I am located in north central Idaho, not necessarily the epicenter of vintage airstream renovators, so you may have to drive a little if you want to get the wooden parts.

   

    

Finally

I get to take the inside shell off. The last step before the shell gets separated from the trailer. I knew from distinct scents that more rodent traces would be found between inner and outer shell. But what I found was still surprising. In some side panels, the insulation looked like it was put in yesterday. Others were completely eaten up, compacted and turned into rodent housing with lots and lots of rodent poop. Time again to wear the mask. On the upside it is great to see the clean metal behind the insulation.
The outside of the inner shell end cap is quite corroded from rodent pee. I hope a good wash with lots and lots of dish soap will take care of that. A lot of folks powers the inside of the trailer once the inner shell is off but I rather want to wash it with soap water and mineral spirits.  

No damage after 58 years.

Pile of rodent poop on top of end cap, no insulation left.

...the rail is filled with rodent poop, yuck!

Finally, the inside shell is gone!

The Cylon has been peed on - a lot.

All insulation turned into mouse housing

     

Paint stripping finally done! For now, anyway...

Some of the professional Airstream renovation guys strip the inside of all color and polish the panels to shine. I really thought that this is a great look even if it shows a lot of imperfections and scratches that have accumulated in the metal over time.
So I read up on the Airforums how to best strip the paint layers and original Zolatone. Unfortunately, the best way to do it is quite laborious involving lots of Citristrip 2 gallons of Mineral Spirits and about 40 plastic razor blades.  It took me about three weeks to get all paint layers removed. It feels great to be done though I doubt that the aluminum can be polished at this point. The Zolatone left some sort of etched marks on the aluminum, which may not be polished out. I may have to sand the metal first before it can be polished.      

The trailer is much brighter inside with all that reflecting light from the metal. That's what I wanted so all is good.