1948 Airstream on American Pickers

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Originally Posted by newroswell

Frank made the comment that the trailer was 9200 lbs also... NO way is it half that.

Yeah, I have a friend with a '48 WeeWind that you can move around by lifting the tongue by hand. I don't know if the one on Pickers was a bigger model, but those old pipe-frame trailers are very light.

Maybe he was thinking of the gross weight of the Sprinter (and he was still shooting high), or the weight of the Sprinter+trailer (which is more believable... empty curb weight of a new high-roof long-wb Sprinter cargo is around 5700 lb.)

[newroswell]

Yeah, I could go for total weight. This doesn't go back far enough, but a 1953 Clipper is less than 2000lbs.