Ideas for finding an inexpensive or secondhand bathtub?

[mr bill]

Don Juane makes some good points and Mike refutes them given his location.

But why buy when you can build? I've built two of them over the years The 1st was using copper sheets riveted over a steel frame. Polished up it looked great. The 2nd was a bit more substantial: concrete block covered with fiberglass with the help of an auto body shop.. Worked out great but to 'move' it would have to be destroyed.

In my hippie house back in the '70's I installed one of these: