Off-road trailer found at random thrift store in middle of nowhere

[Yeti White]

I randomly spotted this trailer and stopped to ask questions. Apparently the original owner had it custom built about 10 years ago in Vegas. Outside of that, the thrift store had no details. He was asking $2,100.00 OBO. When I asked if he had any offers he said no, and not to lowball him with an offer of $500.00. I'm thinking I could offer 1k-1,500 and he would take it. Does anyone have any ideas on this trailer? It looks to be based on a H1 hummer and its bigger in real life then the pics suggest. It's on 37's.

How hard would it be to put toyota 5 lug hubs and run land cruiser wheels? I have a 200 series cruiser that should tow it fine but curious about other opinions.

 

[old_CWO]

It's sort of hard to tell for sure in the photo, but it looks like it might be a standard 6K trailer axle and brakes under there. If that's the case, a simple hub/drum swap will get you to 6-5.5 bolt pattern if that's what you want.

All in all that is a pretty well executed trailer and if you could get it for 1500 or under it's probably a good deal. You should be able to resell the wheels and tires to recoup few bucks.

I question the track bars on there. Not something that should be necessary on a leaf spring trailer.

 

[Overlandexpeditionspecial]

It's sort of hard to tell for sure in the photo, but it looks like it might be a standard 6K trailer axle and brakes under there. If that's the case, a simple hub/drum swap will get you to 6-5.5 bolt pattern if that's what you want.

All in all that is a pretty well executed trailer and if you could get it for 1500 or under it's probably a good deal. You should be able to resell the wheels and tires to recoup few bucks.

I question the track bars on there. Not something that should be necessary on a leaf spring trailer.

Ditching those wheels and tires will significantly lighten the weight of that trailer too. Having had two friends that gave those military tires a shot on vehicles, I would guess the traction bars were added because the thing bounced all over the road because of those stiff walled tires, and after the shocks, they probably tried anything to make it stop. My friends both tried letting all the air out of the tires on 4,000 lb vehicles and they were still stiff, so a trailer that weighs maybe 1,500 was probably a pogo stick on washboards.

 

[Deleted member 9101]

You could also run adapters and use what ever bolt pattern you want.

 

[old_CWO]

Having had two friends that gave those military tires a shot on vehicles, I would guess the traction bars were added because the thing bounced all over the road because of those stiff walled tires, and after the shocks, they probably tried anything to make it stop. My friends both tried letting all the air out of the tires on 4,000 lb vehicles and they were still stiff, so a trailer that weighs maybe 1,500 was probably a pogo stick on washboards.

Interesting, I hadn't thought of that but I bet you're exactly right. With some regular tires and no track bars it should be just fine.

Nice trailer; I would buy it perhaps even at the asking price.

 

[Rath]

would definitely be worth it even for the asking price. there's far more into that trailer. but of course offer less and see what happens!