1957-8 Spartan Imperial Villa Interior tour and review

Interior tour of an "as found" Spartan Imperial Villa mobile home

[@jujujustme]

The stove alone... Yeah! Nice. I grew up in N. CA.. in the mountains, not much around but some lots around us. One lot had one of these. It is perfectly preserved, besides a wooden support beam in the living area due to the amount of snow we get each winter. The whole place was full of real wood paneling as well as the ceiling. Thank you for showing us these old gems. :)

[@DChristina]

Nice to see these old beauties found and restored!

[@seeleygirl6178]

Pretty cool. Love the appliances. Brings me back.

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

What a wonderful mobile home! Really! I lived in one of these back in the early 80s. Mine was a 1956 Midway. It had that same Burch wood interior, and was in really good shape! It also had the international furnace.. which gave me no end of trouble! So.. Get rid of that! LOL! One thing about these older mobile homes is that their design utilized every square inch of space. People lived in them just like an apartment or house.. especially for those who moved frequently due to their jobs. I hope the new owners create a masterpiece! As you say… Not many exist today. Even the one I lived in eventually went away… It caught fire and burned years after I moved out of it.

[@carolemckibbon4586]

Absolutely love that stove. I hope whoever buys the trailer will keep and restore it. Thanks for the tour. Just stumbled across your website while checking the news this morning. Enjoyed it. I hit the Subscribe button.

[@benscampers1818]

Thank you! This trailer is headed to LA this summer where it will undergo a full restoration and be used as an AirBNB

[@jimtomassetti8928]

Wow that Refrigerator has the rack's that spin around. If your handy cake to fix....It's Gourgous when you have all that Birch paneling Replaced and you have the light's all on it gives a glow of honey beautiful... Thank You!

[@crazgirl80]

I hope who bought it will let you see the finished product. You can not deny the workmanship in this trailer . The inside of the cabinets showed no warping .

[@alicehatfield8313]

I'm 70years old and when I was about 16 my mother, father, my husband and myself lived in a trailer similar to that.

[@ruththomas6361]

I probably lived in one of these at one time in my semi-nomadic life! The amount of storage is truly amazing. Nothing like the typical apartment of the time, which was basically none. . . . a closet with one shelf above. My only problem was the cold Anchorage Alaska winters came right through those slated windows and two inches of insulation in the walls. The thing that saved us was the dirt-cheap price of oil for the furnace. But I sure could see living in one of these in a more temperate climate.

[@maryboone903]

I absolutely love the trailerand I can visualize what it would look like after being restored.i particularly love the old appliances and the kitchen cabinets. The pink tub sink and toilet I love also .I wish I could buy it and fix it up ,and live in it I'm 62 yrs old and I love the antique look of things.

[@richardsims1934]

Ive been watching your vids and I love old campers. Great channel Ben!

[@bonkers5016]

The fridge and stove alone are worth a lot! Love it 😀

[@steveallman7581]

Just beautiful !

[@JayRickard]

That fridge though! 😵

[@gayleweatherford7517]

This is the exact Spartan trailer my parents had,they bought it new. Paid $10K....... It came totally furnished.

[@dredayful]

Beautiful 😍

[@emmas1082]

Gorgeous❤️🥰

[@leslyehowell3390]

Thank you for your tour. I might have wanted to buy such a home but have no place to park it. Not sure of the cost of repairing/restoring this honey of a Spartan.

[@diannecampbell18]

very nice

[@seeleygirl6178]

I would love to see it restored to its original retro style.

[@dbkyhere9229]

Wow! What a beauty! Did you sell it remodeled? Love to buy one! They’re probably hard to find...

[@erics9207]

In new york you can get 2000 a month rent in that condition. Don't even clean it just rent it as is. That is what's funny but it's true.

[@davwht9]

A house size cook stove. 😍😇🌈💕👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏡

[@debbushee6970]

did you sell this? how much?

[@benscampers1818]

Yes it was sold. $7,000

[@joerotorhead]

For the love of god.... TURN YOU PHONE SIDEWAYS !!!!!.....😅

[@LIK64]

😂😂😂

[@michaeljenkins3987]

They should pay you to take it away you'd put $100,000 in there to remodel it

[@benscampers1818]

Sold for $7000. Remodel budget around $15k

[@seeleygirl6178]

Too bad all the junk wasn’t cleared out to see it.

[@trackman515]

Where you going to go when you sell that rats nest?

[@benscampers1818]

Your daughters house

[@trackman515]

@@benscampers1818 you going to leave your mama all alone in that place?