For the typical buyer, you have your standard micro, small, medium, large, and box vans or trucks. Of course, you have other, more outrageous ones, like a $1.6 million apocalypse-proof expedition vehicle that's more like a luxury armored mobile habitat than anything else. While all these are fine and dandy, today we'll focus on a special PlayStation-centric trailer that could be your next tiny home or, at least, the next tiny house you'll see pictures of.
Over on the ludicrous Facebook Market, someone listed a rather peculiar blast from the past dubbed the "1999 Craftsmen double expandable stage." The seller wants nothing to do with folks who offer under $70,000. Someone even said on Reddit that they offered $10k and got banned. Is it true? Who can tell? But never let the truth stand in the way of a good joke.
So what makes this thing so special? Well, it was used circa 2006 by PlayStation around the United States to show off their latest and greatest games. It was like an ice cream truck going through your town, and if you were fast enough, you could have caught it and played all sorts of games on PS consoles installed in the trailer.
Images of the PSP (PlayStation Portable) and PS2 appear on the exterior sides, along with posters from SOCOM US Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo 2, ATV Offroad Fury 4, NBA 07 with Kobe on the cover, and the 2005 PSP kart racing sensation, Crash Tag Team Racing. It also features a pretty catchy marketing line on the exterior sides: "Live in your world. Play in ours."
One Reddit user left a rather heartfelt story in the comment section saying, "seeing this really brings me back, I can vividly remember showing up to a target store with my dad in Arizona when I was about 10 and this was out front. Got to play the loco roco demo and it lit a fire in me that hasn’t gone out. I immediately wanted to get a psp, when I finally did it was a realization of a childhood dream. Still play that game sometimes and still have my gen 1 psp."
Photo: Arthur Vandelay, Facebook Market
The Craftsman double expandable stage trailer, as enthusiasts or even non-enthusiasts colloquially refer to it, has been out of commission for "several years." Sadly, we don't exactly know what "several" means, so let's ballpark it and say 5 to 15. It was slumbering in storage roughly 10 miles from its current location in St. Louis, Missouri.
The trailer has dry-rotted tires that won't survive any long haul, so bring replacements if you have them. Fortunately, the hydraulics are functional, and you can fold out the stage deck. The wall panels from the front and back rely on hinges. The center sections go inward and enclose the 1000-square-foot space.
It still has four commercial glass entry doors, and the right rear door has a wheelchair lift. Sadly, there's no info on whether the lift is fully functional. Other details include a Kohler 60 kW Fast Response Genset with a John Deere 4039TF blown head gasket.
It's not much, but it's an honest trailer. If it will sell for the full asking price in this economy... that's an entirely different discussion. Depending on what materials you're using, it could be a lot cheaper to build your own stage, albeit it won't fold out with a fancy hydraulics system. Not to mention, you'd need a truck to haul that thing where you'll be going, plus a huge parking space.
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