Oldest Existing Airstream
This Oct 2018 issue of Blue Beret magazine featured the story of the most rare, longest used, and oldest Airstream, 1935 Torpedo, built by Dr Norman W Holman Sr of Ozark, Alabama using the plans purchased for $5 and the license from Wally Byam of Airstream, when mentioned in Popular Mechanics magazine in 1935. The Holman family used that Airstream for 81 years.
Dr Holman Sr built the shell in two and a half weeks in Ozark, Alabama and took it to Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia where he was in medical school and finished it in two and a half years. His first trip was to the Great Smoky National Park in fall of 1937.
In Feb 2016 the 1935 Airstream Torpedo was purchased by Jack Sisemore of Amarillo, Texas for his RV Museum that also has other historical Airstreams (Wally Byam Caravan world trailor, 1955, 1960, Arogy), recreation vehicles, motorcycles, soda fountain, and gas station relics of days goneby.
His son, Dr Norman Willard Holman, Jr of Pensacola, Fl, inherited the 1935 Airstream Torpedo and below discussed his devotion and his deep conceptive ties to it. The story was filmed at Mystic Springs Airstream Campground in McDavid, Florida. Dr. Holman Jr died on July 6, 2012 when he is on vacation with this Airstream in Sedalia, Missouri.
Dr Holman Sr built the shell in two and a half weeks in Ozark, Alabama and took it to Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia where he was in medical school and finished it in two and a half years. His first trip was to the Great Smoky National Park in fall of 1937.
In Feb 2016 the 1935 Airstream Torpedo was purchased by Jack Sisemore of Amarillo, Texas for his RV Museum that also has other historical Airstreams (Wally Byam Caravan world trailor, 1955, 1960, Arogy), recreation vehicles, motorcycles, soda fountain, and gas station relics of days goneby.
His son, Dr Norman Willard Holman, Jr of Pensacola, Fl, inherited the 1935 Airstream Torpedo and below discussed his devotion and his deep conceptive ties to it. The story was filmed at Mystic Springs Airstream Campground in McDavid, Florida. Dr. Holman Jr died on July 6, 2012 when he is on vacation with this Airstream in Sedalia, Missouri.