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As I decided to rebuild my pop-up tent trailer for family camping, I thought I should go ahead and paint it as well. I did not want to take it to Maaco or have a professional paint it because I did not want to spend that kind of money. I figured I could do this all myself for a whole lot cheaper. Here is what I did.

First I removed all the canvas off the tent trailer. Since a tent trailer is designed to have the canvas removed, this was a rather simple task. You will also need to decide if you are going to paint the inside of the trailer too. In my case, I did – in fact I tore out the inside completely cause I was planning on doing a complete restore. 

Canvas removal and body preparation
Removeing Canvas of Popup Camping Trailer [click to continue…]

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1984 Coleman Tent Trailer (popup camper) Restoration Project

by JeffMay 29, 2008

I purchased this 84 Coleman Columbia popup tent trailer and started rebuilding it a year ago . I have taken a lot of inspiration and ideas from other people’s rebuild projects that I found on the web.
I started this project a year ago and took pictures along the way (See slideshow below). I was a weekend [...]

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