Another Gutted Trailer... $800

That trailer has very little, to no value.

The missing small parts will exceed the cost of the trailer to locate and purchase.

The worse part, is that the trailer will need extensive interior bracing to make it safe for the new owner to tow home. If it's towed very far (say over 50 miles) in this disassembled condition, it's going to fall apart on the road, IMO.

First thing I see is too many digits on the left side of the decimal point. there is NO WAY this is worth anywhere near that much asking price in its current state.

The trained eye will see two things right away...
Gutted, even as messy as that looks, it is not so bad as it may seem. However even in that light, it still has to be disassembled to be put back together properly.

The second is that it sure should not be towed....although I bet Soup could get this one home! I would not leave the driveway on wheels, but rather load it on a haul trailer to get it home. It will still need some cheater bracing to make sure it doesn't blow over or cave in.

The framing that shows seems in good shape and should make a good template for putting it back together. There is always the draw of a "blank palette" to customize however you want, but the trouble is that is the ONLY choice with this. If you set out to do it your own way, then chasing the parts becomes a lot less stressful, as whatever suits your taste will fit.

For instance, this appeared on CL today...I have never seen this before:

rochester.craigslist.org/rvs/5008125045.html



All that being said, there is at least $500-$800 to look forward to just in tires, brakes, axles, propane system parts,  sealing windows and vents, and then the cost of cushions and decorating just to throw salt in the wounds. 

First one - Oh dear! If the only real difference is that the skin is fiberglass, it'll have to come off anyway since they're built from the outside in. And I wonder what a new gel coat would set you back. I think it'd be hard to justify this one unless the decimal was moved to the left a notch.

Second one - Holy mother of porcupines! No floor? It's the same size as a Compact, so there's a few possibilities there, but heck, the safest thing to do with this one would be to take the skin off, the frame off the chassis, stack them neatly on a flatbed and haul them away.

Sigh.

How would a person go about getting the fiberglass roof off? Will it come off intact? Possible? Impossible?

A few years ago I read a book about the how fiberglass changed the boating industry. Fiberglass was still a fairly recent technology in the early 60's. Boats at that time were laid up very heavily compared to today. I would assume this practice carried over into other applications. As they aged and with exposure to the sun, the old gel coat resins had a tendency to craze and develop spiderweb cracking.

It looks like the rear end and roof are two different pieces. You can see reinforcing ribs incorporated into the roof. The glass sections would have been laid up in a mold and later attached to the trailer body. If you can cleanly separate the fiberglass sections, and if the fiberglass sections are undamaged, they should come off intact.  I would bet they are very stiff and somewhat heavy.

How would you go about doing that? As you know, it would depend on how they are attached.

I bet two people could just lift it up and walk it out over the end of the trailer. It should be very rigid.