Re-imagining a 1948 Boles Aero Trailer

This post should be subtitled "Be Patient" or maybe "This One's for You Ken". I knew I'd be taking some time off during the Christmas season so I'd hoped to make some significant headway on the Boles renovation. Well I've taken the time off but most of my materials are taking a long time to get here and I'm afraid I'll be making little headway. My next major steps are: flooring, insulation, rough wiring (where the wiring needs to go in the walls), wall panel installation, ceiling panel installation. A couple week of productive vacation time, right? After all Becky is working through the holidays including a weekend inpatient shift and my Icon pass is blacked-out for skiing during Christmas, so there would be few distractions. First I knew there would be significant lead time for the wood paneling I planned to use. Becky doesn't like the look of the original Birch wood so I ordered some alternative samples a while back from Columbia Forest

S&M Lighting No 303   A picture of the center tail light was what first caught my eye on the Boles. For some reason I just thought it looked cool. I've spent a lot of time sorting out the exterior lights on my '48 Boles. Over the years there's been a mishmash of new lights installed and some of the "more recent" choices were falling apart, not to mention they were just not very pleasant to look at. And the original lights needed some TLC as they were rusted and the wiring had rotted away. In addition to the center-mounted S&M Lighting No 303 brake light, the Boles had four side marker lights. They are Pell-Lite No 300 "beehive" type marker lights. Only the front amber lights still had the original glass lenses. The rear red lenses were some sort of plastic when I purchased the Boles. Pell-Light No 300 Original Pell-Lite Amber Glass Lens Finding an old Pell-Lite is pretty darn difficult, and finding replacement glass was just impossible so I found