I recently checked out a couple of Whitewater Retro trailers at a local RV show. The retro styling is cool and all, but not so much of the "fine Amish Craftsmanship" as claimed. The overall fit and finish was just terrible on the units I looked at. On the outside, every place where they used RTV as a sealant (pretty much everywhere) it looked like drunken monkeys had done the work. These were brand new units and every inch of the sloppily over applied silicone sealant was already embedded with dirt. Obvious gaps in paint on the frames and bumper with rust already starting readily visible. The drain for the recirculating toilet sticks out about 6" from the side of the coach just begging to be raked off. No thanks.
Other brands of travel trailer there were priced sky-high but you could easily see poor workmanship like misaligned cabinet doors, sloppy wiring and plumbing, construction debris left in storage areas, sheet metal screw sticking out, sharp edges at metal joints, etc.. If you're in the conventional travel trailer market I think it's probably better to buy something used and fix it up yourself. You're going to be fixing it anyway so why pay retail?
