Yes, you are correct, this absolutely sick custom toyota pickup has been raised and a hot tub has been added to the bed.
I’m not sure if it’s still for sale. Anyone in Tofino may be able to confirm it by heading to Tofino Brewing Co., going up the hill past the Tofino Distillery, and looking for a parking lot on the left side of the road.
Or maybe, if you have some digital forensic skills, you can enhance the phone number in the photo and try that.
Either way, whoever snaps this thing up is an incredibly lucky person. Not only is it an early toyota pickup, so it was built back when cars were designed to be easier to repair, but it’s also got a manual transmission.
I tried to convince my partner that we could buy it. Imagine having not only a sick truck, but also being able to hot tub wherever you are. Ferry line ups? No more sitting in the car on your phone. Now you can sit in your truck bed hot tub!
Take it to Spanish Banks and park it beside the mobile sauna that hangs out there. You can go sauna to ocean to hot tub to ocean as many times as you’d like. You could even rent it out for parties.
If you wanted, you could sanitize the hell out of it and then fill it with jello. And then people could just scoop jello out of the hot tub.
Needless to say, there are a ton of potential applications for the hot tub truck bed.
But I didn’t get it. I don’t really know where I’d park it. It certainly wouldn’t fit in the underground parking. I guess I could get a permit for street parking, and then I could share the hot tub with the neighbourhood. It would be a nice way to make new friends, wouldn’t it?
No, I guess I’m pretty happy without a car these days. My partner has a jetta that I borrow once in a while, but most of the time I get around on my bike, or on public transit. Sometimes I take evos.
In the next couple years we’ll also have a skytrain station nearby! We’re not a long walk from the future terminus of the millenium line at Arbutus. That’s going to be great.
If I did have a car though, I’d want to have a pickup with a hot tub on the back. Or a sauna.
Have I written about the Tofino trip yet? My partner and I went over the May long weekend this year and it was fantastic. We did all of the regular touristy things, like the boat ride to Hot Spring Cove and a surf lesson at Cox Bay Beach.
We stayed at a perfect little cabin in Ucluelet where we saw a bunch of wildlife. Actually, you know what? I’ve got a bunch of photos from that trip, I think I’ll just do up a whole post on that. We’re still on strike at work, so I’ve got some extra time.
Stay tuned!